The names, below, are a few of the 375,000 Confederate soldiers about whom Union soldier and president of the United States, William McKinley, said:

. . . every soldier’s grave made during our unfortunate civil war is a tribute to American valor . . . And the time has now come . . . when in the spirit of fraternity we should share in the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers . . . The cordial feeling now happily existing between the North and South prompts this gracious act and if it needed further justification it is found in the gallant loyalty to the Union and the flag so conspicuously shown in this year just passed by the sons and grandsons of those heroic dead.

It was President McKinley’s idea to construct the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery because the brave always honor the brave.

But the political naming commission and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin have slated the 109 year old Confederate Memorial for demolition.

It appears Austin and company are breaking federal rules and regulations in their haste to destroy the monument before serious public disgust sets in. Every veteran in America should be outraged because this is exactly what could happen to their memory in the future by politicians just as characterless as Elizabeth Warren. Remember what liberals did to our Vietnam veterans after the Vietnam War. Our military should always be above filthy politics.

You don’t have to love the South or the Confederacy to know that destroying a 109 year old monument in our nation’s most sacred burial ground, as symbolic as the Confederate Memorial, after a war in which 750,000 died and over a million were maimed, is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG and is the most dishonorable thing fake Indian Elizabeth Warren has ever done.

Perhaps a hundred million Americans alive today are descended from Confederate soldiers and the women and families who supported the South’s great war for independence.

Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America noted that race relations were better in the South than anywhere in the country despite slavery. He said they were worst in New England.

During the antebellum era, five Northern states had laws forbidding blacks from even visiting for more than a few days much less living there including Lincoln’s Illinois.

New England had brought all the slaves here chained to decks in the bowels of their stinking hot slave ships where there was no ventilation, suffering for months in urine, feces, vomit and death so Elizabeth Warren’s New Englanders could make money.

Historian Bernard Bailyn stated that New England’s economic success was unquestionably due to the slave trade. W. E. B. Du Bois in his famous book The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870, states that Boston and New York were still the largest slave trading ports on the planet in 1862, a year into the War Between the States and 54 years after the slave trade was outlawed by the U.S. Constitution.

Perhaps Elizabeth Warren and the naming commission should begin demolishing New England monuments and changing the name of Faneuil Hall in Boston because Peter Faneuil traded in black flesh, or Brown University because its founder was a slave trader who said there was no more crime in carrying off a cargo of slaves than a “cargo of jackasses.”

Six slave states fought for the Union the entire war and it took the 13th Amendment in December, 1865, to fully end slavery in the Union slave states.

Southerners would have ended slavery in a much better way than a war that killed 750,000 men and maimed over a million. We lost 400,000 in World War II. It was in the bi-racial South’s best interest to end slavery with goodwill and opportunity for all.

Maybe the better question is why didn’t the federal government suggest buying freedom for all the slaves in the South out of the federal treasury if they were so worried about slavery? Because Yankees were not worried enough to spend their hard-earned sweatshop money to free the slaves in the South who would then go North and be job competition. Besides, the six slave states that fought for the North would have seceded immediately over federal overreach and fought for the South just as Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas did. Those four Southern states at first rejected secession and only seceded when Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to invade the South.

Also, and importantly, the Northern economy would have collapsed because it was based mostly on manufacturing for the South and shipping Southern cotton around the world. The North needed the South but the South did not need the North.

Congress can rectify its error and put an end to Elizabeth Warren’s crime against art and history by defunding ALL of the recommendations of the Woke naming commission, which will cost perhaps a hundred million dollars before its all over. We are in a huge budget deficit and don’t have a hundred million dollars laying around to throw away on changing things that have a glorious record of victory such as Fort Benning and Fort Bragg and all the others. It is idiotic to be spending money changing street names on military bases and removing monuments and changing uniform patches and such.

We are also in a military recruiting crisis and it is about as stupid as you can get to insult the South, from where 44% of the United States military is recruited.

Here is a quote from last week’s blog article entitled “WE WILL SAVE the Magnificent Arlington Confederate Memorial–Woke Ignorance DIES at Arlington”:

The naming commission is so inept it does not even mention the reconciliation theme and symbolism of the Confederate Memorial though Arlington National Cemetery itself, does. ANC’s own description in its National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for the Historic District received by the National Park Service February 24, 2014 states over and over that the Confederate Memorial symbolizes the reconciliation and reunification of our great country after our country’s bloodiest war.[1]

How could the naming commission ignore that?

The Confederate Memorial was conceived by Union soldier and President William McKinley after enthusiastic Southern participation in the Spanish-American War. President William Howard Taft spoke at the UDC ceremony the evening the cornerstone was laid giving an inspiring well-received speech. President Woodrow Wilson spoke at the dedication June 4, 1914 as did Union and Confederate Veterans. Remember, these were the days of the 50th and 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and the famous handshakes across the wall by the old Union and Confederate gentlemen.

How could the naming commission not care about all that?

The Confederate Memorial is about reconciliation therefore it is not in the Woke naming commission’s remit. The Confederate Memorial does not commemorate the Confederacy. It commemorates the reunification of the United States of America after a bloody war. See my white paper “The Reconciliation of North and South After the War Between the States as Symbolized by the Confederate Memorial ‘New South’ in Arlington National Cemetery” on Defend Arlington’s website, 28 pages on the theme of reconciliation.

The 109 year old Confederate Memorial was created in the city of Rome, Italy by internationally acclaimed Jewish sculptor Moses Ezekiel but the naming commission wants to tear it apart in the cheapest way possible and leave a mangled shaft sticking up in Arlington National Cemetery.

The white paper by Ernest E. Blevins, who is the foremost national authority on Union and Confederate monuments, is entitled: “Headstone of the Confederate States: Moses Ezekiel’s Arlington Confederate Monument, Symbolism, Meaning, National Register Eligibility, and Potential Adverse Effects to Alternations or Removal.” It is 49 pages, detailed, documented and irrefutable.

Blevins discusses the “monument symbology” that “depicts the South’s mourning and the war’s losses” and he includes a comment from Michael Robert Patterson:

“But no sculptor, as far as known, has ever, in any one memorial told as much history as has Ezekiel in his monument at Arlington; and every human figure in it, as well as every symbol, is in and of itself a work of art.[2]

That comment again points out the crime against history and art committed by the Woke naming commission in its desire to destroy the monument as cheaply as possible and leave a mangled shaft in its place in Arlington National Cemetery surrounded by 500 graves of Southern soldiers in concentric circles.

There is more information in the burial database but for conciseness, here are the names, ranks, death dates and states for most of the burials:

 

LAST NAME FIRST NAME Rank DEATH DATE UNIT
ABNEY JOHN     GA
AKERS ALBERT J CAPT 01/14/1914 TENN
AMISS FRANCES   09/27/1949 VA
AMISS  GEORGE W   08/14/1913 VA
AMOS W D   09/02/1865 GA
ANDERSON E W   2/9/1915  
ANDERSON  JOHN SGT 05/29/1864 GA
ANGELO  FRANCIS M   10/15/1928 VA
ANGELO SARAH V   05/27/1937 VA
ARMSWORTHY JOHN W   01/15/1864 NC
ASHBY  JOHN J   11/03/1864 CIVILIAN
ASHTON CHARLES H   03/26/1935 VA
ASHTON IDA B   12/19/1940 VA
AUTRY FRANCIS M   07/17/1864 GA
AYLOR  HENRY L   11/4/1922 VA
AYRES WILLIAM S   09/15/1932 VA
BAILEY JOSEPH B   06/13/1926 MD
BAILEY RICE W 2D LIEUT 8/4/1915 VA
BAILEY SUSAN A 2D LIEUT   VA
BALLOWE  J D   06/20/1865  
BARBEE ROBERT S SGT 4/1/1918 VA
BARBER  H A   05/25/1862 SC
BARHAM BENJAMIN F   11/18/1919 VA
BARKLEY  JOHN W   04/16/1865 ALA
BARNES JACOB   02/11/1864 NC
BARNETT  HARVEY   05/26/1864 MISS
BASS MARCELLUS C   12/7/1918 VA
BATES NATHANIEL S   09/10/1864 GA
BAYLESS A J SGT 04/29/1865 TENN
BEACHMAN ROBERT   09/17/1867  
BEAL  WILLIAM M   01/19/1864 NC
BEALL CHATTIE A   10/7/1927 MISS
BEALL  FRED   01/30/1929 MISS
BEAVER TOBIAS   03/27/1864 NC
BECK  JAMES   05/27/1862 ARTY
BEDINGFIELD JOHN Y CAPT 04/05/1864 GA
BENNETT JAMES A SGT 05/20/1864 GA
BERNARD  W P   07/23/1864 GA
BERRY D W   11/11/1863 NC
BETHUNE ANDREW J   10/22/1863 NC
BETHUNE NARCISSA G SGT 6/12/1929 GA
BIBB ROBERT   04/07/1864 VA
BOOTH  JAMES   11/03/1863 MISS
BORWN or BROWN J A 2 LIUET 01/27/1929 22 VA INF
BOSTIAN A A CORP 11/14/1863 NC
BOUNDS J D   04/20/1864 NC
BOYCE S J SGT 11/11/1863 NC
BOYLE PATRICK   09/14/1864 GA
BRAND WARREN H     GA
BROWER  LEON   08/24/1864 ALA
BROWN BENJAMIN CAPT 05/30/1920 VA
BROWN FRANCES E   2/5/1917 VA
BROWN  GEORGE W CAPT 03/22/1927 VA
BROWN  JOHN   01/22/1862  
BROWN  MERIDA   04/27/1865 GA
BROWN MINNIE R 2 LIUET 4/12/1942 22 VA INF
BROWN SARAH P CAPT 2/11/1923 VA
BROWN  WILLIAM   06/03/1862 NC
BROWN WILLIAM H   5/4/1913 VA
BROWN WILLIAM L   07/17/1864 GA
BROXTON  HOMER     GA
BRYANT NEEDHAM B   05/27/1862 MISS
BURDICK B B   08/21/1865 GA
BURKE MARY E   06/28/1922 43 BN VA CAV
BURKE THOMAS T   10/26/1916 43 BN VA CAV
BURNS JOHN   06/16/1862 NC
BURROWS FRANCIS M MUS 8/10/1922 VA
BUTLER JOHN F   06/28/1865 GA
BYASSEE THOMAS W     VA INF
CAIN WILLIAM B   06/12/1862 ALA
CALLAGHAN JOHN T   02/21/1918 VA
CANNON C M     GA
CANNON H W   09/02/1862 GA
CANNON J C     ALA
CAPPS  EDWARD W CAPT 02/23/1864 VA
CARLTON T R   07/14/1862 NC
CARROLL D L   05/14/1863 ALA
CHEW MARGARET H M CHEW 07/19/1940 MISS
CHEW MONROE G M CHEW   MISS
CHISELDINE WILLIAM C     MD
CHISM J R   06/21/1862 VA
CHRISTOPHER T C   05/24/1862 SG
CLAGETT  EDWARD L SGT 4/10/1930 MD
CLEMENTS FRANCIS J   8/2/1923 MD
CLEMENTS  JEANNETTE F   03/17/1921 MD
COLE WILLIAM H   05/24/1862 VA
COLEMAN  DANIEL G   05/26/1863 NC
COLEMAN E R     MISS
COLQUITT  W H   01/08/1863 GA
CONAGHAN JAMES   06/15/1864 GA
CONLEY DAN   03/25/1863  
CONNER  ALFRED   05/12/1844  
COOK  ELIAS M LIEUT 05/25/1862 ALA
COOK ENOCH   11/14/1910 VA
COOPER ANDREW J     VA
CORDER ALEXANDER   12/25/1862 VA
COWAN  THOMAS LT 10/05/1862 NC
COX J W   12/28/1863 NC
CRAFT N L   01/11/1864 NC
CRANDALL LEE COLONEL 09/13/1926 47 ARK CAV
CRANFORD  ELIZABETH SGT 1/8/1926 GA
CRANFORD HORACE L SEPG 12/21/1918 GA
CRAWFORD WILLIAM     GA
CRONAN JERRY   06/02/1864 GA
CRONE H W     VA
CROSS CHARLES N   02/19/1908  
CROUCH  CHARLES C   09/29/1919 MO
CROUCH  JENNIE P   7/7/1916 MO
CURRY  JOHN A   08/11/1864 GA
DAVIDSON MARTHA E   6/2/1939 MD
DAVIDSON WILLIAM   11/7/1924 MD
DAVIS JOSHUA   01/23/1915 ARTY
DAVIS  WELDON E CAPTAIN 11/22/1863 30 NC IN
DAWSON ROBERTA C   02/23/1935 VA
DAYMOND GEORGE      
DE SHIELDS GEORGE D SGT 11/27/1918  
DEAN J F   01/02/1864 NV
DEARING WILLIAM R      
DELEON  PERRY M   09/17/1922 ASST
DONOHOO  JAMES   05/26/1862 ALA
DRAKE  GERSHAM   6/12/1921 VA
DREW  JOHN CAPT 07/31/1917 VA
DUFFEY  JEFFERSON W   10/11/1929 VA
DUFFEY  NANNIE T   07/29/1941 VA
DUNNINGTON  CHARLES A   02/28/1921 VA
DYESS WILLIAM H CORP 12/28/1864 GA
EARLEY ALLEN H   04/11/1865 GA
EDMONSTON GABRIEL   05/16/1918 41 VA INF
EDMONSTON ROBERTA b. 2-12-1871 03/18/1954 41 VA INF
ELAM HENRY T   05/29/1862 VA
ELLEN JAMES B SGT 12/09/1863 NC
EMBREY CHARLES O   2/12/1925 VA
EMBRY  SAMANTHA E   06/24/1922 VA
EMMART ESTHER N   05/13/1935  
EMORY  JAMES   11/16/1867  
EPPS J L   04/28/1865  
ESTERS  WILLIAM   06/18/1862 SC
ESTES DAVID N 2LT 5/12/1925 TENN
ESTES  ELDRA J 2LT 3/1/1939  
EVANS FRANK D   1/1/1918 VA
EVANS JANE   7/6/1937 VA
EZEKIEL MOSES J   03/27/1917  
FAIRFAX HENRY M   02/14/1928 VA
FARMER NOAH   05/25/1862 VA
FARRELL THOMAS W CAPT 09/28/1864 MISS
FEAST  LOUDON CO C 6/11/1912 MD INF
FEAST MARY   01/18/1934 MD INF
FERNEYHOUGH JENNIE A   12/4/1943 VA
FERRELL EPHRIAM   10/8/1928  
FERRELL  MARY E   05/20/1931 VA
FIELD ELIJAH K   05/18/1865 GA
FIELD GEORGE W   8/5/1918 VA
FINCH JOHN   11/26/1863 NC
FINDLEY  THOMAS   9/6/1914 VA
FINNEY MARY E   07/20/1922 VA
FINNEY THOMAS   02/26/1915 VA
FINNEY MARY E   07/20/1922 VA
FINNEY THOMAS   02/26/1915 VA
FLANNERY PHIL H   05/23/1862 ALA
FOLLIN JOHN M     4TH VA CAV
FONES HENRY R   01/27/1863 VA
FOREMAN JAMES   04/01/1865 ALA
FURR FRANK N   05/29/1862 ALA
GARRISON ANN E SGT 12/13/1922 VA
GENRARD  JOSEPH   06/28/1865 GA
GEUSS L G   09/26/1863 MISS
GLEASE  LEWIS      
GOLDSMITH THEODOCIA H   10/19/1932 ASST SURG
GOLDSMITH WILLIAM T   2/5/1918 ASST SURG
GOODENER  JOHN   06/08/1862 VA
GRADY POWELL C CAPT 4/12/1922  
GRADY SUSAN A CAPT 12/17/1928 ASST
GRAVES I T     GA
GRAY W J      
GRAYSON S M   2/1/1919 MD
GREEN ROBERT R   9/3/1920 VA
GREENE J C   11/17/1867 GA
GRIGSBY LOVINA SGT 11/4/1921 VA
GRIGSBY W S SGT 06/28/1932 VA
GROVER ALBERT S   02/24/1913 VA
GUNNELL HENRY L 2LT 04/19/1917 VA
GUSSTON W H     NC
HAGANS  JOSIAH H     GA
HALL G W   09/19/1867 GA
HARDY JAMES T SGT 04/05/1865 GA
HARRIS  JOHN   09/12/1862 NC
HARRIS  REUBEN T   07/17/1864 ALA
HARROVER HIRAM C IST SGT 01/14/1912 VA
HARROVER ROBERT M   06/26/1917 VA
HASKINS  ELIZABETH V MUS 11/12/1929 VA
HASKINS  JOHN R MUS 8/1/1928 VA
HAWKINS MARCUS   11/19/1923 VA
HAWLEY  GEORGE W   7/11/1919 TEX
HEAVENER W A      
HEISTON  THORNTON B CAPT 3/7/1916  
HENDERSON  ANDREW   03/16/1930 SC SS
HENNESSEY D   08/27/1862 ALA
HEROD WILLIAM   04/14/1865 ALA
HERRELL  HENRY A   07/22/1913 VA
HICKEY FANNIE B CAPT 01/14/1933 6 MO INF
HICKEY JOHN M CAPT 1/10/1927 6 MO INF
HICKMAN  BENJAMIN H   02/08/1862 GA
HICKMAN  THOMAS H   08/08/1864 GA
HILL SAMUEL   12/20/1863 NC
HODGKINS W   06/07/1862 VA
HOGAN LAFAYETTE   01/01/1863 TENN
HOLDER  WILLIAM   05/31/1862 VA
HOLMES  GEORGE J   06/08/1864 GA
HOLT G L   11/09/1893  
HOWARD  HARMAN   07/23/1864 ALA
HOWELL FRANCIS A   02/15/1919 VA
HUBBARD  GEORGE W   06/16/1862 VA
HUBBARD  JOHN D   01/22/1863 FLA
HUDDLESON JOHN CAPT 3/11/1922 VA
HUDDLESON  MARY E CAPT 01/16/1922 VA
HUDSON T H   06/06/1864 VA
HUFFMAN JAMES b. 1-31-1840 04/14/1922 VA
HUGHES BIRTIE K   2/11/1921 VA LT ARTY
HUGHES RYLAND B   12/6/1916 VA LT ARTY
HUGHES  SAMUEL   07/08/1865 VA
HUNGERFORD THOMAS W   3/9/1923 GA
HUNTER  ALEXANDER   06/30/1914 VA
HUNTER  FILAH A   8/1/1915 VA
HUTCHINSON PHILIP AUGUSTUS   2/11/1925 VA
HUTCHINSON  SUSIE L   11/5/1928 VA
IMBODEN  ELIZABETH S SCT MAJ 11/11/1919 CAV
IMBODEN JAMES A SCT MAJ 2/4/1928 CAV
INKFIELD  WILLIAM   11/15/1867  
JACKSON JOHN A     GA
JACKSON  WYATT   07/06/1862 FLA
JARVIS  ROBERTA E   5/8/1931 VA
JARVIS WILLIAM   5/4/1916 VA
JENKINS  HORATIO N CAPT 03/29/1915 LA
JENKINS  SARAH CAPT 10/24/1927 LA
JENKINS W N     MISS
JENKINS  WILLIAM E   12/31/1863 SC
JESSUP S     GA
JOHNSON  GEORGE   05/21/1863 MISS
JOHNSON OLIVER P   10/13/1908 VA
JOHNSON RICHARD   12/16/1924 VA
ARMES J T     SC
JOHNSON ROBERT   08/25/1863 NC
JOHNSTON FANNY   11/29/1922  
JOHNSTON GEORGE S   6/2/1928 MARINE CORPS
JONES CHARLES M   05/19/1862 MISS
JONES WILLIAM B   11/15/1865 GA
JORDAN  FLEMMING   08/02/1864  
JORDAN  JOHN F CAPT 08/29/1862 VA
JOYCE G   08/07/1863 VA
KENNEMAN WILLIS   06/05/1864 ALA
KEPHART JOHN A   11/18/1929 VA
KEPHART MARY E   2/4/1940 VA
KEY JOHN F   4/10/1904 FORREST SCO
KEY  MINTER P   05/16/1916 TENN
KEYES  WILLIAM   01/24/1864  
KIMPLE  FRITZ   08/31/1864 MISS
KING A   02/02/1864 55 NC INF
KING J F LT COL 8/5/1915 VA
KING THOMAS D SGT 01/09/1864 LA
KING WILLIAM G   05/19/1862 VA
KINKIN G     NC
KIRBY  BENJAMIN F SGT 01/12/1864 VA
KIRK  JOHN   05/21/1862 VA
KIRK Rollin H   7/7/1922 SC
KIRKLAND  JOSHUA     GA
KNOWLES B   01/03/1863 GA
KRICKLAND  JOSHUA     GA
L T J   12/20/1862 CSA
LASH ADA SGT 09/17/1939 GRMIS PRTY
LASH GEORGE W SGT 10/11/1908 GRMIS PRTY
LAWHORNE HENRY E     VA
LAY THELDRED S   04/22/1865 GA
LEACOCK JOHN      
LEWIS  SAMUEL E CAPT 11/17/1917 ASST SURG
LITTLEPAGE BETTIE H   06/17/1937 VA
LITTLEPAGE J C   10/27/1933 VA
LLOYD G F   06/09/1864 GA
LOCKER  JACOB M   03/19/1934 VLA LT ARTY
LOONEY T J   05/23/1862 LA
LOOP GEORGE W   05/19/1862  
LOOP NOT CAPTURED   05/23/1862 VA
LOVELESS  WILLIAM      
LOVING  PIERCE   04/24/1932 VA
LOWRANCE C E   11/07/1863 57 NC INF
LYDDANE JAMES   08/17/1913 VA
LYDDANE MARY   10/15/1940 VA
LYNN JAMES   11/22/1864 MISS
MANY ROBERT P CORP    
MARCHANT  HENRY M CAPT 02/24/1907  
MARMADUKE HENRY H IST LT 11/15/1924 PRO NAVY
MARSHALL  JESSE E   06/12/1862 NC
MATHEWS  JOHN W   1/12/1909 VA
MCALLISTER  ALBERT L   02/13/1931 VA
MCALLISTER  ANDREW   07/03/1862 MISS
MCCLAIN W L   05/16/1863 GA
MCCLENDON JAMES     GA
MCCORD JAMES SGT 06/09/1864 GA
MCCULLEN JAMES   06/25/1863  
MCCUMMINGS AMANDA   11/29/1920 MD
MCDONALL J     ALA
MCELVEEN  ELIAS   08/16/1864 GA
MCFARLAND  ELLEN   11/15/1931 VA
MCFARLAND HENRY D   1/10/1918 VA
MCGEE THOMAS     ALA
MCLENDON W J   06/15/1862 GA
MCMEEKIN  THOMAS   05/20/1864  
MEAD  JOHN   05/13/1863 ALA
MEARS  WILLIAM S   10/8/1938  CO B 19 BN VA HVY ARTY
MEEKS MARTHA A   10/7/1935 VA
MERCHANT  EMMA   6/3/1934 VA
MERCHANT ISAAC N   10/19/1933 VA
MEREDITH WINSTON CORP   JONE’S PRTY
MEULIN M   03/25/1863  
MILLER FRED W   10/7/1916 VA
MILLER JOHN S   05/15/1921 VA
MILLER MINNIE I   04/30/1936 VA
MILSTEAD  JOSEPH H   1/6/1924 MD
MOHLER D J PVT 1/6/1924 43RD VA CAV
MOHLER LAURA PVT 7/6/1925 43RD VA CAV
MONROE G   01/14/1864  
MOOMAW SAMUEL   09/18/1863 VA
MOORE JULIAN G CAPT 02/28/1929 NC
MOORE WILLIAM E   11/27/1920 NC
MORGAN TIMOTHY F   04/06/1865 ALA
MORRIS AARON   06/13/1864 GA
 VIRGINIA  VIRGINIA   01/16/1916 VA
MOSS  PETER   05/30/1862 VA
MULLINS  JAMES R     MISS
MURPHY  JOHN A   06/20/1862 VA
MUSE JOHN A   08/31/1843 VA CAV
MUSE  ROSE LEE b. 4-27-1871 03/15/1934 VA CAV
MUSTAIN  ANDREW J   05/11/1863 21 VA INF
NAIL  JAMES   04/10/1864 GA
NAUCK JOHN D   2/2/1925 VA
NAUCK MARTHA A   04/22/1927 VA
NEILL ISAAC   04/19/1865 MISS
NEWCOMB JOHN J   04/16/1916 56 VA INF
NEWCOMB MARGARET A   11/18/1925 56 VA INF
NICHOLS WILLIAM H CAPT 05/18/1925 TEX
NICKENS JONATHAN   05/21/1862 NC
NICKS W L   07/19/1864 ALA
NORTON ROSA B   08/28/1939 MISS
NORWOOD JAMES W     ALA
NOWELL ARTHUR F PVT 05/29/1864 31 GA INF
ORCHARD FRANCES B CROP 05/25/1920 SC
OVERCASH  H W   12/10/1863 NC
OWENS ALFRED   7/12/1918 SC
PAGE JOHN M   09/17/1864 GA
PAGE WILLIAM   4/4/1914 CO B 2 MD INF
PALMER HEZEKIAH S   10/10/1863 MISS
PANNILL JOHN B   2/4/1929 VA
PARRY  ELLA H   5/2/1931 COD 53 VA INE
PARRY RICHARD L SGT 03/22/1914 CO D 53 VA INE
PARSONS W G      
PAXTON JOSEPH M CORP 08/16/1921 VA
PAYNE AMOS P   5/1/1929 VA
PENDLETON C M   02/19/1919 VA
PERKINS W J   06/29/1864 CAV
PERRY JESSE M   06/13/1864 GA
PERSONS BENJAMIN F   07/03/1864 GA
PETTY HENRY S   08/17/1918 VA
PETTY JAMES T   3/5/1929 VA
PFAFF ANDREW   12/29/1862 NC
PHILLIPS WILLIAM A   07/25/1864 GA
PLUM HENRY L   2/4/1921 ALA
PLUM MARGARET   4/8/1937 ALA
POER JOHN A   08/23/1863 GA
POLLARD W O   05/19/1863 NC
POOL MILES   06/05/1864 GA
POWELL JAMES P   07/16/1911 3 CO A HOWITZWRS
POWELL LAURA W   01/24/1953 3 CO A HOWITZERS
PRICE IDA   11/18/1942 VA
PRICE JAMES B   04/28/1920 VA
PRICE  LUCY A I LIEUT 06/16/1925 VA
PRICE MARTIN L I LIEUT 04/17/1921 VA
PROTHIS PINCKNEY   08/03/1863 GA
PURSE J W   05/29/1864  
QUINN MICHAEL   05/18/1864 MISS
RALPH J B   06/14/1862 NC
RANEY J S   02/15/1864 ALA
RASH URIAH   12/29/1863 NC
RAYNER GEORGE W   05/07/1865 ALA
REA  A T   05/22/1862 VA
REEP OBED   02/02/1864 NC
REESE MARTIN   08/11/1863 MISS
REHILL ANNIE   11/15/1914 VA
REHILL EDWARD   09/25/1914 VA
REID JULIA C   08/30/1918 VA
REID SAMUEL D   11/7/1914 VA
RENFRAL WILLIAM S LIEUT 08/12/1864 GA
REYNOLDS W F     LA
RICE GEORGE W   06/28/1862 VA
RIEL G W CROP 11/14/1863 NC
RILEY  J L   06/03/1865 MISS
ROBERTS H H   09/05/1865 MISS
ROBERTS JOHN     CO D 15 ALA INF
RODGERS THOMAS     GA
ROGERS JOHN H   04/18/1865 GA
ROGERS N A   12/07/1863 NC
ROY EMILY H   11/2/1932 VA
ROY RICHARD B   01/31/1921 VA
ROYSTON C B     ALA
RUDD  J E   05/18/1917 ALA
RUSSELL J S   05/05/1865 ALA
RUSSELL JAMES     GA
SANDLIN JAMES   09/19/1867 ALA
SAXON JAMES M   12/04/1863 CO D 9 LA INF
SAYLES GREEN CORP 12/01/1863 LA
SCAGGS EDWARD O   04/27/1933 MD
SCAGGS MARION F   12/20/1937 MD
SCAGGS ROBERT   8/5/1931 MD
SCALES JAMES   04/25/1865 ALA
SCOTT W A 2 LT 12/27/1914 GA
SCROGGIN PEYTON R   06/23/1862 VA
SEAY RICHARD B   7/2/1937 VA
SHAW HENRY M   06/10/1865 ALA
SHILBY MARY V b. 12-25-1878 05/18/1963 CO C 21 REGT VA INF
SHOLLETTE C B   06/14/1863 WHITE’S BTRY
SINCLAIR ARTHUR G   1/8/1916 CO R 17 RFGT VA INF
SINCLAIR CARRIE L   05/14/1916 CO K 17 REGT VA INF
SINCLAIR  WALLACE W   06/25/1917 VA
SINK W A   02/19/1864 CO F 15 NO INF
SIZER LUCIEN D CORP 02/23/1918 VA
SIZER MARY E CORP 9/4/1923 VA
SMITH CATHARINE M   4/3/1924 VA
SMITH CROMONIO   02/29/1920 VA
SMITH EDWARD T   7/8/1918 VA
SMITH GEORGE H     ALA
SMITH  J A     GA
SMITH MARGARET M CAPT 1/3/1917 VA
SMITH NATHANIEL J CAPT 12/13/1912 VA
SMITH ORLANDO F   01/16/1916 VA
SNYDER CHARLES A   09/20/1915 VA
SNYDER WILLIAM   08/31/1865 GA
SOMMERS MARGARET M   01/29/1923  
SOMMERS SIMON L   11/13/1913  
SPANN HENRY   10/06/1864 FLA
SPRY JAMES   12/2/1924 NC
SPRY MARY I   04/14/1921 NC
STANLEY E B   07/18/1864 GA
STEEVER WEST LT COL 09/14/1907 LA
STONE WILLIAM   01/17/1863 SC
STONEBURNER MARTHA V SGT 1/5/1940 CO I S VA INF
STONEBURNER SAMUEL G SGT 11/16/1919 CO I S VA INF
STRAYHORNE WILLIAM   01/20/1864 NC
SUMRALL JOSEPH G   12/29/1862 MISS
SWANSON SIMEON CORP 01/12/1864 NC
TAYLOR C W CORP 12/28/1862 GA
TAYLOR DAVID L   06/25/1864 GA
TAYLOR WILSON   04/22/1865 ALA
TENNENT JOHN C ASST ENGR 11/7/1913  
THOMAS  J P   02/06/1864  
THOMPSON GEORGE C MUS 02/21/1920 VA
THOMPSON GEORGE E   6/12/1921 VA
THOMPSON LOUISA   02/21/1920 VA
THOMPSON MARY T   8/11/1915 WIFE OF PVT M S THOMPSON
THOMPSON T B     ALA
THOMPSON WILLIAM T CAPT 03/30/1920 MO
THRELKELD FRANCIS M   10/01/1864 GA
THRIFT BENJAMIN   03/27/1921 VA
TODD SOPHIA   6/7/1935 IA
TODD WILHAM E   05/25/1925 IA
TRIPP WILLIAM C   06/25/1865 TENN
TUCKER W   05/21/1863 CO C 34 NO INF
TURNER THOMAS C CORP   GA
UNKNOWN        
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UNKNOWN     06/01/1862  
UTTERBACK JOHN   4/2/1929 VA
WALDRIP ANDREW J   06/09/1864 GA
WALKER ALEXANDER   1/11/1914 VA
WALKER CORA H   12/24/1918 VA
WALLACE  J H   09/25/1865 GA
WALLACE MICHAEL   04/27/1920 VA
WALLER ELIZABETH D   02/22/1933 CO K 20 TENN CAV
WALSH  ALICE M   9/1/1911 FAYETTE ARTY
WALSH  JOHN H   2/12/1918 FAYETTE ARTY
WALSTON RUFUS   06/10/1862 NC
WATERS HUGH   11/3/1927 VA
WEST JAMES      
WEST WILLIAM C   05/04/1865 ALA
WHALEY GEORGE      
WILKERSON COLUMBIA T   08/27/1884 VA
WILKERSON FANNIE M   03/03/1882 VA
WILKERSON  THOS J   10/22/1899 VA
WILKERSON W L   07/25/1934 VA
WILKERSON WILLIAM   08/11/1865 ALA
WILLIAMS ASA CORP 02/20/1864 NC
WILLIAMS JAMES B SGT 04/19/1927 VA
WILLIAMS JAMES H I LIEUT 05/16/1909 GA
WILSON J W   01/09/1864 NC
WILSON ROBERT   02/27/1939 CO D I MD CAV
WOLFE THURSTON   09/26/1918 VA
WOLFE VIRGINIA ASHBY   09/25/1925 VA
WOOD ROBERT   07/05/1862 VA
WOODSON CECELIA A   6/9/1940 VA
WOODSON WALTER N   01/21/1920 VA
WOODWARD COLUMBUS O   02/23/1920 MD
WOODWARD DANIEL   3/10/1930 VA
WOODWARD EMMET SURG 05/14/1909  
WOODWARD EMMETT SURG 05/14/1909  
WOODWARD  LAURA VIRGINIA   01/27/1938 MD
WORLEY WILLIAM     DAV VILLE BTRY
WORTHAM JAMES A   04/21/1913 VA
WORTHAM SARAH F   10/3/1925 VA
WRIGHT MARCUS J BRIG GEN 12/26/1922 GHEATHAM S DIVISION
WYATT JOHN W   12/5/1924 VA
YEATMAN  CHARLOTTE E   4/4/1939 VA
YONT PETER   11/10/1863 NC

[1] That registration was approved for the property’s entry onto the National Register of Historic Places April 11, 2014.

[2] Patterson, https://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/history-of-the-csa-memorial-at-anc-1914.htm.


Gene Kizer, Jr.

Gene Kizer, Jr. graduated magna cum laude from the College of Charleston in 2000 at middle age with History Departmental Honors, the Rebecca Motte American History Award, and the Outstanding Student Award for the History Department. He is author of Slavery Was Not the Cause of the War Between the States, The Irrefutable Argument.; The Elements of Academic Success, How to Graduate Magna Cum Laude from College (or how to just graduate, PERIOD!); and Charleston, SC Short Stories, Book One: Six Tales of Courage, Love, the War Between the States, Satire, Ghosts and Horror from the Holy City. He is publisher at Charleston Athenaeum Press. Please visit his blog at www.CharlestonAthenaeumPress.com. He lives on James Island in Charleston where he is also broker-in-charge of Charleston Saltwater Realty (www.CharlestonSaltwaterRealty.com).

9 Comments

  • Lafayette Burner says:

    I ran the list of names you’ve provided above through the list found in “Tattered Uniforms and Bright Bayonets” and it appears that perhaps, at least, 20 of those listed were West Virginians (west Virginians). Also, on filtering these out, it showed Thomas Finney was listed twice above. J.A. Brown of the 22nd VA is most likely a west Virginian too; but didn’t filter out. Admittedly this is difficult thing to do, so take it w/ a grain of salt.

    These are the likely west Virginia men:
    Bibb Robert
    Brown Benjamin
    Cook Enoch
    Corder Alexander
    Farmer Noah
    Finney Thomas
    Finney Thomas
    Hawkins Marcus
    Huffman James
    Jarvis William
    Johnson Richard
    Kephart John A
    Muse John A
    Snyder Charles A
    Utterback John
    Walker Alexander
    Wallace Michael
    Waters Hugh
    Wood Robert
    Woodward Daniel

  • Billy P says:

    Sad for sure. The bottom line, it should stay right where it is. It’s the height of ugliness to even consider what they are doing. All the goodwill is gone.
    So much energy, effort and money being spent to destroy Confederate memorials…..and now in a national cemetery, you know the nation that we are supposed to be part of.
    No more southern blood should be shed for this empire! Southerners should see this action as an insult of biblical proportions.
    Cemeteries….where they previously said our Confederate monuments should be relocated to and reside.
    Yankees lie…they go back on their word….whether it’s a lie to their subjugated fellow Americans, or to the plains Indian.
    Not one ounce of truth in their “history” books.
    They can spend billions of dollars on renaming bases, removing monuments, funding a mob thug in Ukraine, mortgaging our GGG grandkids….but, those poor unfortunate souls, they just don’t have the money or resources to take care of 50 illegal immigrants in one of their richest areas, Martha’s Vineyard.
    These people are at their foundation, godless, evil. They were evil in 1860 and they are evil now. They hate us, they always have, and nothing is going to change.
    Remember what they are doing to our kin, our heroes, their memory, their graves, their memorials – how they dishonor and talk of them as if they were the scum of the earth – and when you think on it, choose to fly a flag worth flying, one that doesn’t represent people who hate you and your ancestors.
    I would have preferred they not tear open the wounds again, but they have and then some.

  • scott thompson says:

    there was a riot in downtown raleigh…the capitol police gave the word that they would do nothing if stuff (storefronts) and monuments were destroyed. had no problems dishing out parking tickets though. the confederate monument that was in raleigh faces they way the murderer entered. the same force which killed black and white alike. its a basic obelisk that says ‘to the confederate dead’. some dreadlocked dipshit was allowed to rip it down. with the threats of northern secession, jim crow originating in the north, northern ports in the slave trade operating so late in the ‘slave game’, and of course, black schools being torched in Connecticut….why this? hell…some of my ancestry were black slaveowners in duplin county nc and i think the 3rd largest property owners there circa 1740. it is sad and makes me sick. netherlands looks nice with all the bike paths.

  • Ken says:

    The Arlington monument represents/represented reconciliation.
    Austin and others actions are a repudiation of reconciliation.
    Once the new crowd has power you’ll see that justice and fairness were never part of their plan.
    They’ll espouse MLK until his legacy is no longer useful then the brutality will begin.
    The government killed the Indians, they fund the murder of the children and they’ll have no problem exterminating you and I.
    Austin and his ilk would just as soon p*ss on the graves as leave a monument and if they left it they’d figure a way to desecrate it anyway. Better to remove it than to leave the dogs and sorcerers to contaminate it with their presence.

  • Patrick Malone says:

    My Great Grandfather was a private in the 1st Georgia Infantry. Walked from his home near Columbus Georgia to Macon, to enlist. I’m a Proud Southron, and am hurt to the core by all this nonsense.

  • The Rev. David W. Cardona says:

    My great great grandfather Absolom Dixon, fought as a member of the Georgia Volunteers. He fought in several engagements and was wounded by missile and ball at Cold Harbor. He moved to Texas after the war. He married the widow of his best friend who was killed at Cold Harbor. They lived a quiet life in Coryell county Texas and raised a family. He is buried in a small cemetery which is now inside Fort Hood. May he and all the Confederate Dead rest in peace and may light perpetual shine upon them.

  • Barbara says:

    The War Between the States was probably brought about by The Hidden Hand in order to force a central bank in the United States. You can read an excellent free book about all of this here

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/historical-analysis-of-the-global-elite-ransacking-the-world-economy-until-youll-own-nothing/5805779

    Today the same Hidden Hand is opening our borders and working toward the Great Reset and total control of the people who are allowed to survive their current purge from vaccines and continual wars.

    Warren and others are simply their shabbos goy doing their bidding as traitors have always done for them. They destroyed the history of the Soviet nations just like they are in the process of destroying ours. Russians were not allowed to remember their war dead or heroes and they burned thousands of churches and slaughtered thousands of nuns and priests.

    I hate to say it but it’s probably pointless to contact our reps in Washington DC and ask them to stop the destruction of the monuments because they too will do the bidding of the bankers or they wouldn’t be allowed to hold office. It doesn’t matter which party because they are all the same.

    Here is another link with a good video about the bankers

    http://libertygalaxy.com/the-money-masters-how-international-bankers-gained-control-of-america/

    They control the entire world. They are like the Bible says about the devil roaming the earth seeking whom he may devour. They are the Devil. What they plan for us by 2030 is a lot more serious than monuments. They must be stopped. But you can’t stop what you don’t know about.

  • Frank Young says:

    Churchill said ,If the present starts a quarrel with the past we will surely lose the future.

  • Tom Wiggins says:

    The tragic end of the war between the states was, in my opinion, due to “leaders” fighting the enemies fight. Virtually all lessons from the “rebel” victory in the American revolution were thrown out the window. Brave southern souls we’re put on a line, time and again, with a notion of God’s will being done. Seems it was lost on the strategists that satin is as real as God, and some would argue, has more victories on this earth.
    The time is long overdue for new towns and new cities to be incorporated, lead by statesman. For existing counties and states to represent their constituents, and to leave behind this beauracratic disgrace. When trash decides to desecrate a monument to valiant defenders of liberty, for a brief time, the police will be “defunded”, enabling monuments to be protected.
    There’s nothing wrong with the country, but the city.

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