Prattville Dragoons SCV

05/08/2025

“There are, probably, few who would not abstractly prefer free labor; but what shall be done with the blacks? There has never been a time in the history of our discussions on this subject, when, the South had expressed her willingness to part with the slaves, we at the north could have agreed in what way they should have been disposed of. Who has ever proposed a plan of relief which could in a good measure unite us? What shall be done with the blacks? On the evils of slavery all are well informed. But as to this essential question we get no light”.

(A Southside View of Slavery, 1854, pp 90 - 91)

05/08/2025

05/07/2025

What the Confederate Constitution Got Right

In today’s hypersensitive society, saying anything nice about the South, and especially the Confederacy, could very well be a death sentence in many job fields, not to mention academia. The clowns of “cancel culture” will be out in force. This should come as a shock to no one, for the South ha...

05/07/2025

Had Southerners been allowed to end slavery on their own terms, instead of as an unintended consequence of a war for economic conquest, it would have been far better for the slaves. Regarding Southerners, Pulitzer Prize winning historian J. Allan Nevins observed, “They wished, however, to choose the hour and method by which they should decree its gradual extinction. Knowing the complexity of the problem, they did not desire to be whirled into a catastrophic social revolution.” Nineteenth century historian Charles Francis Adams, Jr., realized this and said: “Had the South been allowed to manage this question unfettered, the slaves would have been, ere this, fully emancipated and that without bloodshed or race problems.”

05/07/2025

In the book The Common Solider of the Civil War, The average southern soldiers diaries and letters to home barely even mentioned slavery, much less as a reason for fighting. It was because they were defending their homes and families and country, or the expansion of government.

05/06/2025

“Believe me no solider on either side gave a damn about slaves, they were fighting for other reasons entirely in their minds. Southerns thought they were fighting the second American Revolution, northerners thought they were fighting to hold the Union together [With a few abolitionists and fire eaters on both sides].”

- Shelby Foote

05/06/2025

Change my mind.

05/06/2025

Our speaker for the Thursday, 8 May meeting will be John M. Taylor, longtime editor of the Alabama Confederate. He is the Editor Emeritus for the Alabama Division SCV. He writes articles for the Alabama Gazette on the true facts of the WBTS. John has also written a book and will have copies available.

05/06/2025

Alexander City in Central Alabama, was incorporated in 1872 as Youngsville, after its founder James Young. In 1873, the Savannah and Memphis Railroad came to the city. The city was renamed in honor of the railroad's President Edward Porter Alexander, hero of the Battle of Gettysburg for the Confederate States of America.

05/05/2025

Lest We Forget!
Salute! o7