SCLoS Historian: "Remembering the days ..."

This is the provocative and untold story of the Union's "hard war" against the people of the Confederacy, a war that included the shelling and burning of cities, systematic destruction of entire districts, mass arrests, forced expulsions, wholesale plundering of personal property, and even murder. Author Walter Brian Cisco explores with a passion matched by the force of his arguments how the Union army, backed by the Lincoln administration, deliberately discarded the civilized tradition of excluding noncombatants from military action. He moves chronologically through the war, examining how this brutal mindset determined Union actions across the landscape of the South—the pillage of Fredericksburg, the shelling of Charleston, the sack of Athens, the burning of Atlanta, the destruction of Columbia, the infamous "March to the Sea," to name but a few. Special chapters document the suffering of women and children in prison, and Union abuse of African-Americans.

"American who read War Crimes Against Southern Civilians will have a more sober and true, and less self-righteous, understanding of our country."
Dr. Clyde N. Wilson, Professor Emeritus of History, University of South Carolina

"[Cisco's book] blows the lid off the conspiracy of silence about the violent, mass-murdering origins of the American Leviathan state..."
Dr. Thomas J. DiLorenzo, author of The Real Lincoln

"Despite the spinning of romantic historians, hard evidence indicates that the invasion of the South is the American enormity."
Dr. David Aiken, editor of A City Laid Waste

"Every seeker of the real story behind the sanitized myths of American history should read this book."
Dr. James Everett Kibler, author of Our Fathers' Fields

Thursday, August 16, 2007

"Remembering the days ..."

The above photo was scanned from pages 484-5 of the 1968 Garnet and Black, then the yearbook of the University of South Carolina. Do you notice anything extraordinary (other than the fact that 40 years ago even students dressed up for football games)? Flying above the student section of Carolina (now Williams-Brice) Stadium is a huge Confederate battle flag! And it was not placed there by some rebellious undergraduate, but by those in charge of Coach Paul Dietzel’s football program. In 1967, Confederate flags were often seen at pep rallies and games, and every time the Gamecock Marching Band played “Dixie” (yes, that happened often!), the students went wild.

South Carolina’s current coach, Steve Spurrier, spends much of his time trying to keep his players out of the Richland County Detention Center. But what really makes him mad is, in his own words, “that damn flag.” Last season a fan displayed one before a game, and the coach was terribly embarrassed.

For those embarrassed by the ol’ ball coach, call 1-800-327-8606 to order your “PUNT SPURRIER” bumper sticker.

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