Dear Ms. Lunelle,
It is with great sadness that I report that the Battlefield Re-enactment of the Battle of Narcossee Mill has made its final curtain call. I, like so many, would echo the same proclamation…"one more time boys!"
However, those men who carried the responsibility of making it happen (the Jacob Summerlin Camp SCV) proclaimed that they had gotten too old and decrepit, and no one else would step forward to the Charge.
And while the first day would bring the Florida rain, and the public and home school babies and their parents would show up 350 strong. The rain brought the opportunity to lay upon them the truth from the time of Lincoln's Presidency. Later, how to fire a musket and how to make Goober Peas.
I am sure that the Honorable Nelson Windbush who has been a mainstay at this event and whose grandfather rode with the Honorable General Nathan Bedford Forest and could not be with us this year because of failing health would have been very proud of the young Black men who took to the field of battle during the re-enactment with the Confederate soldiers.
I am very sorry that I forgot their names with the exception of one, especially the young man who was the Valedictorian of the Private School he attended and would introduce to me his parents who voiced their pride in him and the fact that he had searched for and found his Confederate ancestors and was proud that he was a Son of a Confederate Veteran.
And while so many would attend the Battlefield Re-enactment; I found it just as rewarding or even more so that our school children would learn about the things that Lincoln and his cronies had done that would lead our Southern family to follow the Constitution and Declaration of Independence on a legal path to establishing another Constitutional government and not the false propaganda that they were insurrectionist or traitors which the calling of is a Bill of Attainder and an act against the Constitution because no Southerners had been arrested or tried for such.
I would tell them that people like Elizabeth Warren Warren, and Lincoln, had no
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