Confederate Coats of Arms

I have written several times about coats of arms, properly called heraldry. Many people seem to think that each family has a coat of arms issued for use by all people bearing the same last name. Of course, that's not true.

Now a new variation has appeared: Confederate Coats of Arms. An online site has a mission statement "... to advance Dixie culture through knowledge, heraldry artwork and…"

Gee, I didn't even know that the Confederacy issued coats of arms!

I'll let you judge the authenticity of the arms issued by the Confederate College of Heraldry at http://www.geocities.com/confederateheraldry/indexCCH.html

Comments

[ConfederateHeraldry]

"Gee, I didn't even know that the Confederacy issued coats of arms!"

To answer your statement, you will discover the Confederacy today can be found in the Sons of Confederate Veterans, League of the South, the people at large and many organisations. While none of the organisations sponsor the Confederate College of Heraldry (CCH) it would be good to know that individuals assumed arms for a couple of hundred years where inheritance of said arms was without question. This was before authorities began to limit those rights in the old countries and England. Since we have no royal keepers in Dixie we are free to resume our God-given rights once more.

The Confederate movement never went away for many understanding true history. However, large numbers of people do not realise what is read and taught today is a product of New England thinking where the South has little contribution, had to be "saved" by war and needs correction today.

For example one need not celebrate Thanksgiving with the use of Publix Pilgrim salt and pepper shakers. George Washington (Virginia) and President Jefferson Davis (CSA) both issued November proclamations calling on the people to thank God on such a special day. Both occured before the New England War and propaganda victory, a campaign continuing to the present day.

There was a verbal armistice to not resupply three federal properties (forts) that would have been returned to each respective state anyway. Could we imagine a secession from royal England where all post offices remained under English control? No, the same disposition relates to U.S. federal properties as well. Lincoln's War upon Dixie had to be forced by having Confederate cannoneers turn back the resupply ship Star of the West heading for Fort Sumter and THAT was the first shot. New England could not let Dixie get away with all of what industrialists considered "their" raw materials.

Back to the New England first idea. Imagine U.N. settlers in some near future discount America's early moon landings because they were not permanent settlements or some other arbitrary judgment. This exactly what is taught about Jamestown, Virginia, though before Pilgrims, our ancestors were in Virginia up to 13 years with a local glasshouse industry and the King's approval for the House of Burgesses in 1619.

Kind regards all,

Gary Smith
Confederate College of Heraldry

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[Dan]

Could you be the Gary Smith who wrote this on another site?

"Part of the problem is lies with those controlling the airwaves and print media, chambers of commerce, minority controlled city governments as well as Hollywood's multi- decade defaming of our Southern image. Is there a common thread? Yes, simply put and painful to admit as we must--they are not our people."

http://www.southernmessenger.org/LetterstoSM.htm

Assuming that you did indeed write this, who exactly are "our people," Gary?

[Brian Phillips]

Gary has asked me to send this reply to Dan, the unknown. I graciously send it with honor.
Brian Phillips
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GARY SMITH'S REPLY: Dan, do you care to identify yourself? I always
give my first and surname when posting anywhere. I am not
embarrassed to do so.

Our people came from across the vast expanses of Europe, endured all
imaginable hardships and built a great country and then the
Confederate States of America. Our people put together the greatest
republic the world has ever known, developed the atomic bomb and
landed on the moon. By all rights that Dixie launch platform should
have planted the Stars and Bars on the moon. Is there something you
are ashamed of because I'm not.

To be a bit more specific--Confederates are our people. What are you
driving at and why do you appear to be scared of the post?

Gary Smith (Both names, Dan.)

[Dan]

Click on "Dan" and you'll see my last name is Slidell. Thanks for clearing up who "our people" are. It explains a lot.