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The Prattville Dragoons, Camp 1524, Sons of Confederate Veterans, are preserving the history and legacy of the heroes who fought tyranny to preserve their constitutional rights.

Lincoln acknowledged the CSA as a seperate entity by his actions, but chose to ignore it with his words. The belligerent...
09/20/2025

Lincoln acknowledged the CSA as a seperate entity by his actions, but chose to ignore it with his words.

The belligerent character of the Confederate States was fully acknowledged by the highest judicial tribunal of the United States. This involved an acknowledgment of the Confederate Government as a Government de facto having "the sovereign rights of war," yet the Executive Department of the United States Government, with reckless malignity, denounced our cruisers as "pirates," our citizens as "insurgents" and "traitors," and the action of our Government as an "insurrection."

~ Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. 2

For those who use the “who fired first on federal property” argument as an excuse for Lincoln’s invasion of the South, k...
09/19/2025

For those who use the “who fired first on federal property” argument as an excuse for Lincoln’s invasion of the South, keep in mind, Davis offered to pay for that property. Lincoln refused to evacuate, not because he cared about that property, but because he refused to let the South go in peace.

The Confederacy offered to pay the South’s share of the national debt and to pay compensation for all federal installations in the Southern states.

(Charles Roland, The Confederacy, University of Chicago Press, 1960, p. 28; Patrick, Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet, p. 77; William C. Davis, Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America, New York: The Free Press, 2002, p. 87).

It should be pointed out that many Northern citizens opposed the war and believed the South should be allowed to leave i...
09/18/2025

It should be pointed out that many Northern citizens opposed the war and believed the South should be allowed to leave in peace. Dozens of Northern newspapers expressed the view that the Southern states had the right to peacefully leave the Union and that it would be wrong to use force to compel them to stay. Even President James Buchanan told Congress in an official message shortly before Lincoln assumed office that the federal government had no right to use force against the seceded states.

On December 17, 1860, Horace Greeley, a Republican writing in his own paper, The New York Tribune, on Dec. 17, 1860, supported peaceful secession. He wrote:
“If the Declaration of Independence justified the secession of 3,000,000 colonists in 1776, I do not see why the Constitution ratified by the same men should not justify the secession of 5,000,000 of the Southerners from the Federal Union in 1861...and when a section of our Union resolves to go out, we shall resist any coercive acts to keep it in. We hope never to live in a republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.”

During the Civil War, the Union had treated the Confederacy as a separate nation (a belligerent power) under the law of ...
09/16/2025

During the Civil War, the Union had treated the Confederacy as a separate nation (a belligerent power) under the law of war, and it seemed possible that wartime recognition of Confederate belligerency could have significant postwar effects - even potentially prohibiting treason prosecutions.

International law had traditionally been termed “the law of nations,” and as such, it applied between nations, and only between nations. It did not reach within the states, because to do so would violate a state’s sovereignty. A rebellious group was not the proper object of the law of nations unless and until it achieved independence, thereby becoming a member of the family of nations.

Treating the Confederates solely under the domestic law of the United States would severely limit the U. S. government’s policy options. Yet treating them under international law, while in many respects strategically advantageous, would tacitly recognize the separate existence of a Confederate nation, which would seemingly concede the validity of secession.

The “Perpetual,” “One people,” Union argument created by the Articles of Confederation and transferred to the Constituti...
09/15/2025

The “Perpetual,” “One people,” Union argument created by the Articles of Confederation and transferred to the Constitution, is debunked by one simple fact. The Union under the Constitution was created by the ratification of 9 states. Had the Union been “perpetual,” or “one people,” all 13 states would have been required to join the new union with the Constitution.

Each of the States, as sovereign parties to the compact of Union, had the reserved power to secede from it whenever it s...
09/15/2025

Each of the States, as sovereign parties to the compact of Union, had the reserved power to secede from it whenever it should be found not to answer the ends for which it was established, If this has been done, it follows that the war was, on the part of the United States Government, one of aggression and usurpation, and, on the part of the South, was for the defense of an inherent, unalienable right.

~ Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. 2

The 130th Annual Alabama Division UDC Convention was held last Thursday through Saturday. The Dragoons’ own Douglas Butl...
09/14/2025

The 130th Annual Alabama Division UDC Convention was held last Thursday through Saturday.

The Dragoons’ own Douglas Butler, participated in the Color Guard for the event.

The Regent’s Banquet was held Thursday night. Friday night a business meeting was held and Saturday night featured the Historical Evening and Banquet.

Abraham Lincoln wanted to avoid treason trials. President Lincoln had remarked that Davis’s flight from Richmond in Apri...
09/14/2025

Abraham Lincoln wanted to avoid treason trials.

President Lincoln had remarked that Davis’s flight from Richmond in April was a good thing because it forestalled the political and legal difficulties that might attend a high-profile treason prosecution.
“I’m bound to oppose the escape of Jeff Davis, but if you could manage to have him slip out unbeknownst-like, I guess it wouldn’t hurt me much!” Lincoln had reportedly told General William T. Sherman.

(“Interview between Gen. Sherman and Chief-Justice Chase,” New York, July 4, 1865; Salmon P. Chase to Kate Chase Sprague, May 5, 1865, in Salmon P. Chase, The Salmon P. Chase Papers, ed. John Niven, 5 vols. (Kent State University Press, 1993), 5:38.)

The fact that countries did not acknowledge the CSA as an independent country is not what defines them as such. Actually...
09/12/2025

The fact that countries did not acknowledge the CSA as an independent country is not what defines them as such. Actually, the fact that other countries officially claimed neutrality is what recognized the CSA as an independent country.

“It is not necessary that the independence of the revolted province or State be acknowledged in order to constitute it a party belligerent in a war, according to the laws of nations. Foreign nations acknowledge it a war by a declaration of neutrality. The condition of neutrality can not exist unless there be two belligerent parties."

~ United States Justice Robert C. Greer, Prize Case 2 Black, 635

Tonight at the September camp meeting Commander Grooms led us through camp business and upcoming events. The guest speak...
09/12/2025

Tonight at the September camp meeting Commander Grooms led us through camp business and upcoming events.

The guest speaker was Compatriot Bob McClendon, a member of the Troy SCV camp, Life Member of the SCV and Commander for the Southeast Alabama Brigade. Bob is a living history Reenactor of more than 40 years and author of several articles and books, including The Definitive History the 53rd Alabama Cavalry. Autauga County soldiers, including some Dragoons, were part of the 53rd. He gave a moving presentation on Company K of the 53rd Alabama regiment and reminisces of members from that unit. After the presentation he answered questions and had some of his books available for sale.

For those who’s intent it is to besmirch Robert E. Lee, as a ruthless defender of slavery, I offer you his own words tha...
09/11/2025

For those who’s intent it is to besmirch Robert E. Lee, as a ruthless defender of slavery, I offer you his own words that relate his decision.

"With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty & duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home."
~ Robert E. Lee to his sister, April 20, 1861

Anyone with solid roots would do the same, as most southerners did.

The New York Tribune, the peculiar organ of the Radicals, declared, March 2, 1861, nearly 6 weeks before the assault upo...
09/10/2025

The New York Tribune, the peculiar organ of the Radicals, declared, March 2, 1861, nearly 6 weeks before the assault upon Fort Sumter…

“We have repeatedly said, and we want more insist, that’s a great principle embodied by Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence, the governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, is sound and just; and that, if they Slave States, the Cotton States, or the Gulf States only, choose to form an independent nation, they have a moral right to do so.”

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