Dear Ms. Lunelle,
It was my intent on Friday morning to drive into Travelers Rest and post the Southern Cross at the Dixie Outpost store. However, for some strange reason, I got an itch to post the Southern Cross alongside Highway 25 just outside Tuxedo, N.C.
I hadn't been there 5 minutes when a car with Pennsylvania license plates would pass, make a u-turn, and park. An elderly man and woman made their way to where I stood.
“Sir,” he exclaimed with his hand extended to shake mine; “when I saw you standing there don in the Confederate uniform with the Confederate Battle flag posted, I felt compelled to come back and say thanks. I know that you see my Pennsylvania tags, but I am a retired Vietnam War Veteran whose life was saved many times by men posting that Battle flag. And that included many a Black soldier as well.”
About that time another car with a young man and two teenage white boys got out of a car crossing the highway running towards me with their arms wide open.
“Please excuse us for the interruptions Mr. Edgerton, my youngest boy, John, and I might add, the most prudent with his spending habits; insisted when we saw you standing here, that we should stop and offer to buy you breakfast.”
“Yes, believe us Mr. HK, he is a tight ward" replied James, the eldest son. John (the stingy one) would hand me a ten-dollar bill and said “thanks Mr. HK!”
About that time, a pretty red truck had parked, and an elderly Black man would exit, speak to everyone and thank me for representing the Black Confederate soldier during Black History Month.
In unison everyone would say "Yes!" And they all would also give me a ten-dollar donation. And when the gentleman from Pennsylvania saluted me as he and his wife readied to leave, they would all do the same. God bless you!
Your brother,
HK
Chairman Board of Advisors Emeritus Southern Legal Resource Center
Member Save Southern Heritage Florida
President Southern Heritage 411
Black Confederate Soldiers
Levi Carnine - Louisiana; while don in a Confederate soldier’s uniform he would stealth his way through Union lines carrying letters and monies back home to the families of his Southern brethren.
Horace King - Alabama; Master Bridge Builder; built bridges to carry horses, cannons, munitions, and soldiers. Designed the spiral staircase in the Capitol building in Montgomery, Alabama.
Rev. Mac Lee- Body Servant of General Robert E. Lee - Built the first Credit Union in America with the intent of helping his freed people and started Churches in both the South and North. He told the African people to (1) get yourself educated, (2) buy yourself some land, (3) keep your faith in our Lord and Master Jesus Christ (4) and above all else, put your trust in only the Southern White man!
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