A little background on myself. My name is Eric Davis, Jasper is my 3rd Great Grandfather, who I honor as my profile. I started my historical journey with no bias on a quest to find out the truth concerning the war. My interest was peaked as I worked on my genealogy. I was a screw up in high school and I couldn’t have cared less about history, or any subject for that matter. The history bug hit me later in life. I chose a blue collar career and I served my community for 28 years. For the last 15 years or so, I have studied the antebellum era and that alone. The reason most of you oppose the South is because you concentrate on slavery alone. You feel as though nothing else matters besides ending it at any cost. But the cost was heavy, especially when ending slavery was not for the wellbeing of slaves but as a means to destroy the political and economic enemy. Lincoln’s war affectively perverted the Constitution and changed the character of the government framed by our founders. This is why I support Confederate principles. It has nothing to do with slavery or race, as that isn’t what motivated Lincoln to invade the South. I support the Confederate cause because they supported the Constitution as ratified by the states.

Not my opinion, but the view of a Yankee paper. “Mr. Lincoln saw an opportunity to inaugurate civil war without appearing in the character of an aggressor.”  ~ Providence Daily Post, April 13 1861

Known to generations of Americans for his stirring call to arms, "Give me liberty or give me death," Patrick Henry is all but forgotten as the first of the Founding Fathers to call for independence, for revolution against Britain, for a bill of rights, and for as much freedom as possible from government—American as well as British. If Washington was the "Sword of the Revolution" and Jefferson "the Pen," Patrick Henry more than earned his epithet as "the Trumpet" of the Revolution for rousing Americans to arms in the Revolutionary War. (Bernard Mayo, Myths and Men: Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1959). 1.)

“We are to have civil war, if at all, because Abraham Lincoln loves a [the Republican] party better than he loves his country…. [He] clings to his party creed, and allows the nation to drift into the whirlpool of destruction.”  ~ The Providence Daily Post, April 13 1861

The reason the South fought? Easy.

Retired infantryman couldn’t take the heat.

Truth…🤣😂🤣

Democratic principles failed in 1865. This was not because the Union ceased to be agreeable to all of its States, but when the Union was “saved,” like any other Empire, by force of arms.

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

Lincoln not only was willing to kill every single American who stood in his way, he was also willing to imprison every single American who even questioned him.

Let’s put Lincoln’s war on the South into perspective. Lincoln would have waged a war against any state who tried to secede for any reason. It doesn't matter if it was a southern state or a northern state. It doesn't matter if secession was to protect slavery, tariffs, subsidies, misuse of the military, or abuses of the banks, etc. Lincoln would have invaded any state and would have been willing to imprison or kill the entire population of that state if that was what was necessary to end secession. Or as he put it "to preserve the union.”

An excerpt from a diary entry from Mary Chestnut, while at a dinner in Montgomery, Alabama February 19, 1861— Mr. Toombs told us a story of General Scott and himself. He said he was dining in Washington with Scott, who seasoned every dish and every glass of wine with the eternal refrain, “Save the Union; the Union must be preserved.” Toombs remarked that he knew why the Union was so dear to the General, and illustrated his point by a steamboat anecdote, an explosion, of course. While the passengers were struggling in the water a woman ran up and down the bank crying, "Oh, save the red-headed man!” The red-headed man was saved, and his preserver, after landing him, noticed with surprise how little interest in him the woman who had made such moving appeals seemed to feel. He asked her, "Why did you make that pathetic outcry?" She answered, "Oh, he owes me ten thousand dollars." "Now, General," said Toombs, "the Union owes you seventeen thousand dollars a year!" I can imagine the scorn on old Scott 's face.

FEELS GREAT WAKING UP EVERY DAY KNOWING I’M NOT A YANKEE!

Lincoln’s War was fought for the same reason King George III fought the Revolutionary war with the colonies — to preserve the union/empire.

"The Constitution of the United States is a compact of independent nations…” ~Thomas Jefferson to Edward Everett, 1826. ME 16:163

The statue of Jefferson Davis at the front steps of the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

The United States Constitution was not meant to be “interpreted.” Interpretation is the work of those with nefarious intentions. "Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure."  ~ Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823. ME 15:450

Sadly, Phil Leigh passed away April 9, 2026. He was a Confederate hard charger and will be missed greatly. I recommend his book Causes of the Civil War often. abbevilleinstitute.org/strik…

“We quit the Union, but not the Constitution—this we have preserved. Secession from the old Union on the part of the Confederate States was founded upon the conviction that the time-honored Constitution of our fathers was about to be utterly undermined and destroyed . . .” ~ Alexander H. Stephens Speech to the Virginia Secession Convention, April 23, 1861

Alabama celebrates Jefferson Davis’s Birthday today!

During informal ceasefires or designated truces, men would meet in the middle of no-man's land to talk, smoke, and trade personal items.