Tag Archives: The Confederacy

“The Stainless Banner”: The Second National Flag (1863–65) of the Confederate States of America had a pure white field

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For the prequel to this article, see “The Confederate Revolution.”

In a short book published in 1971, University of Georgia history professor Emory M. Thomas examined The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience.

The Confederate revolution, Thomas maintains, occurred in two stages. Read more …

Published: October 12, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Hamilton, articles, North American New Right, originals, the American South, white nationalism | Comments closed

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The Confederate Revolution

Andrew Hamilton

The “Confederate flag” (Battle flag of the Army of Tennessee)

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The Confederate rebellion can be viewed as a revolutionary attempt at regional secession from the Union with the objective of establishing an independent state. Read more …

Published: October 5, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Hamilton, articles, North American New Right, originals, secession, the American South, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Born in Charleston, Henry Timrod (1828–1867) is often called the (unofficial) Poet Laureate of the Confederacy. “Ethnogenesis” was written during the meeting of the first Confederate congress in Montgomery, Alabama in February, 1861. We reprint it here in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Confederate States of America. Read more …

Published: February 4, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Henry Timrod, North American New Right, poems, poetry, reprints, secession | Comments closed

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Was the Confederacy a Tool of International Finance? Part 3

Kerry Bolton

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Part 3 of 3. Part 1 here, Part 2 here.

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Was the Confederacy a Tool of International Finance? Part 2

Kerry Bolton

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Part 2 of 3. Part 1 here

The Confederacy’s Relations with International Finance

The primary allegation in regard to “Rothschild” (sic) funding of the Confederacy is that an important loan was secured from the Erlanger bank in Paris. This financial arrangement was nothing but Shylocking and was not favorable to the Confederacy.

Was the Confederacy a Tool of International Finance? Part 1

Kerry Bolton

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Part 1 of 3

Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, Stone Mountain, Georgia

“The Secession-War arose on the issue of whether the Southern states, comprising a unit based on an aristocratic-traditional life-feeling, with an economic basis of muscle-energy, could secede from the union, which had been captured by the Yankee element. Read more …