Jackson Rangers Camp 1917/Root Hog or Die

August 21, 2022

Dear Ms. Lunelle, 

On Thursday evening, August 4, 2022, alongside the Honorable CD Crawford, we would journey to Sylva, North Carolina to attend the Jackson Rangers Camp 1917 Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp meeting. I was glad to see young Gunner and his grandfather. 

Gunner would hear the Charge of the Sons..."It is our Charge and Duty to protect and defend the Confederate soldier’s good name.” And that duty is to keep their honorable memory alive along as man shall live. No matter the carnage that the evil ones who have infiltrated our homeland destroying the Memorial Cenotaphs, removing the names of streets, schools, highways, and anything that bears their honorable name. To include the attack on their Christian flag. 

Commander Parris would heap accolades on his men for the donation of their time, land, and monies for the building of at least seven thirty foot flag poles across Jackson and Macon Counties that are flying, and will fly the Southern Cross. 

When called upon for comment, I would encourage those present to read Jim Downs book, “Sick From Freedom" that highlights the illness and suffering of the slave caused by the Yankee illegal invasion during and after the War for Southern Independence. I would tell them that Downs book gives understanding to what my mom meant when she said the alms houses that served as hospitals for the slave was the Freedman’s Bureau House of Frankenstein. 

Abraham Lincoln coined the phrase "Root Hog or Die" when asked what he thought should be done for those newly freed slaves in need of medical, shelter, clothing, and other basic human needs. Johnson, his successor not only adhered to Lincoln's policy, he carried it even further by the veto on monies for these medical and other supplies that would have saved hundreds of thousands of these freedmen's lives. 

I can only reiterate once again to those sons and daughters of Southern slaves that we