Sons of Confederate Veterans
Georgia Division
https://www.georgiascv.org/
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John K. McNeill SCV Camp #674
PO Box 1353

Moultrie, Georgia 31776
www.scv674.org

Presents

A Southern View of History
The War for Southern Independence -The Other Side of the Coin

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

PART I. THE UNION AS CREATED BY THE FOUNDING FATHERS

  1. Breaking Away from Great Britain, A Declaration of Independence
  2. The Articles of Confederation
  3. The Constitution

PART II REGIONAL DIFFERENCES

  1. Cultural Differences
  2. The Population Shift
  3. Southern Class Structure
  4. Economic Issues
  5. State’s Rights
  6. John Caldwell Calhoun
  7. Independence

Part III SERVITUDE, SLAVERY, ABOLITIONISM

  1. Indentured Servitude
  2. The Slavery Issue
  3. Abolitionism
  4. Books That Inflamed Tensions
  5. John Brown

PART IV HISTORY OF SECESSION AND COMPROMISES 

  1. Early American Secession Attempts
  2. Compromise Attempts
  3. The Crittenden Compromise
  4. Final Attempts At Compromise

PART V. THE ELECTION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

  1. The Republican Nominee
  2. The Democratic Nominees
  3. The Constitutional Union Party Nominee
  4. The Election Outcome
  5. The Morrill Tariff Is Passed

PART VI. THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA IS FORMED

  1. The January 9, 1861 Star of the West Incident
  2. The Confederate Constitution
  3. President Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet
  4. Plot to Assassinate President Davis and Cabinet

PART VII. THE FORT SUMTER INCIDENT

  1. Lincoln Is Inaugurated
  2. Lincoln Attempts To Re-supply Fort Sumter
  3. Lincoln Declares War On The South
  4. Cadets Resign, Accusations of Treason
  5. Six More States Leave The Union
  6. Southern Perspectives of The War

PART VIII. FLAGS AND SYMBOLS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA 

  1. Flags of the Confederate States of America Government
  2. Origin of The Confederate Battle Flag
  3. Parts of the Battle Flag
  4. Battle Flag Variations of the Southern Cross type
  5. Additional Confederate Military Flags
  6. Heritage Preservation Arguments Regarding Confederate Flags

PART IX. CONFEDERATE ALLIES AND NORTHERN POLITICAL INTERVENTIONS

  1. A. Seven Indian Nations Ally With The Confederacy
  2. The Trent Incident
  3. Lincoln Attempts To Compensate Northern Slave Owners
  4. D. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
  5. The South’s Support By Black Confederates
  6. The South’s Support By Hispanics

PART X. PRISONERS OF WAR

  1. Prison Camps
  2. Grant Stops Prisoner Exchange Program
  3. The United States’ Use of Human Shields

PART XI. NORTHERN TYRANNY 

A. Lincoln’s Tyranny: Abuse of the US Constitution    B. Terror in Missouri, The Jayhawkers, Red Legs, Lane, and Jennison.    C. The Forced Enlistment and Mistreatment of Southern Blacks Into the U.S. Army    D. General Benjamin Butler “The Beast” in Louisiana    E. The Order To Execute Partisan Rangers    F. Ewing’s General Orders No. 10 & 11

PART XII.  NORTHERN ATROCITIES AND WAR CRIMES 

  1. The Massacre At Palmyra, Missouri
  2. The Hanging of Sam Davis
  3. Ivan Turchin, The Robber Colonel

PART XIII.  GENERAL SHERMAN’S ATROCITIES AND WAR CRIMES

  1. The New Manchester and Roswell, Georgia Mills and the Roswell Women
  2. Sherman’s March Through The South
  3. Sherman’s Bummers

PART XIV. AFTER THE WAR

  1. Reconstruction
  2. The Southern Exodus To Brazil and Mexico
  3. The Capture Imprisonment of President Jefferson Davis
  4. The Execution of Major Henry Wirz

PART XV. SOUTHERN HEROES

  1. General Robert E. Lee
  2. General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
  3. President Jefferson Davis
  4. Our (Your) Ancestors

PART XVI. SUMMARY

  1. Why The Southerner Fought
  2. Why We Should Remember Them Today
  3. The Charge of the Sons of Confederate Veterans

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