Know your Southern history sothat you can help to defend it. Ourheritage is too important to leave toYankee and Scalawag revisionist.

In America today most are proud toboast of their cultural backgroundwhether that be Irish, African, Hispanicor whatever. One of the largest segmentsof the American population is attackedfor displaying pride in their heritage, those with Confederate ancestors. Weare immediately classified as racist if wedisplay the battle flag that the Southernsoldier carried as he defended his homeand family from invasion. We have madesome progress in convincing othersthat our flag is meant to symbolizeheritage not hate but we have further togo. The author is one Southerner whofeels that his ancestors were like theirgrandfathers before them, simply fightingfor their right to self government. Theydid nothing to be pardoned for andwe do nothing wrong in being proudof them just as other Americans takepride in their ancestors. The best way todo this is to become familiar with ourhistory. In recent years many academichistorians have joined the attacks ofour Confederate heritage. We must notleave our history to be told by Yankeeand Scalawag revisionist historians.Everyone who feels the same way shouldread this outline of Southern history forUnreconstructed Southerners.

Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, one of the oldest and more eccentric officers involved in the Civil War, made himself a favorite of Stonewall Jackson through his courage and stubborn energy. Born to a Quaker family, Trimble spent his childhood on the American frontier. After graduating from West Point, he served in the Old Army and then involved himself with the growing railroad industry of the 1830s, living at the forefront of American modernization. As the war began, he sided with the South, burning railroad bridges north of Baltimore to deny Washington the support of Union troops, and then moving to Virginia. He enlisted in the Engineers and constructed battery emplacements. Commissioned brigadier general in late 1861, Trimble distinguished himself at Cross Keys, Gaines's Mill, Manassas, and Gettysburg; was involved in the Baltimore riots; and spent time as a prisoner on Johnson's Island. This biography covers Trimble's personal life and career with both the railroad and the military. Simultaneously, it serves as a case study of an American who chose to side with the South. Before the war, Trimble traveled freely between states and showed no early indication of a regional attachment. The work uses Abraham Maslow's motivation model, the hierarchy of needs, to reconcile Trimble's self-interest with his need to belong to a community. It also raises various questions related to Southern history, including community identity, modernization, and the concept of the ?New South.?

Know your Southern history sothat you can help to defend it. Ourheritage is too important to leave toYankee and Scalawag revisionist.

In America today most are proud toboast of their cultural backgroundwhether that be Irish, African, Hispanicor whatever. One of the largest segmentsof the American population is attackedfor displaying pride in their heritage, those with Confederate ancestors. Weare immediately classified as racist if wedisplay the battle flag that the Southernsoldier carried as he defended his homeand family from invasion. We have madesome progress in convincing othersthat our flag is meant to symbolizeheritage not hate but we have further togo. The author is one Southerner whofeels that his ancestors were like theirgrandfathers before them, simply fightingfor their right to self government. Theydid nothing to be pardoned for andwe do nothing wrong in being proudof them just as other Americans takepride in their ancestors. The best way todo this is to become familiar with ourhistory. In recent years many academichistorians have joined the attacks ofour Confederate heritage. We must notleave our history to be told by Yankeeand Scalawag revisionist historians.Everyone who feels the same way shouldread this outline of Southern history forUnreconstructed Southerners.