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Here are some photos taken in Selma, AL, probably in 1988.  The man who took the photos was working there at the time and came to the event.  The photos here were either scanned from his prints or transferred from negatives to digital by a photo lab.

This may be at Fort Dixie.  If anyone knows what this event was, please share everything you can remember about it at chevelle@flatfenders.com

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In photos 13, the flag lettering reads something like Tennessee GA Regiment.

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"The people of the free states have defended, encouraged, and participated; and are more guilty for it, before God, than the South, in that they have not the apology of education or custom." -- Harriet Beecher Stowe on the North and slavery

"As I stood upon the very scene of that conflict, I could not but contrast my position with his, forty-seven years before. The flag which he had then so proudly hailed, I saw waving at the same place over the victims of as vulgar and brutal a despotism as modern times have witnessed."
 -- Francis Key Howard, Ft. McHenry 1861

"Sharpshooters, like fiddlers, are born, not made" Gen A.P. Hill

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"And what is good, Phaedrus,
And what is not good --
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?"
 

"My Captain shouted for us to "fix bayonets!"....I told him that mine "Wasn't broken"; Then the 1st Sgt said that "I was special..."; and THAT'S why I'm on picket duty...again..."
 

  I am the Battle Flag of the Confederate States of America.

  I am a proud flag.
  I have led great armies to great victories.
  From tall masts I have saluted,
  And been saluted by,
  The ablest generals in history.

  I am a potent symbol.
  I have the power to stir the blood
  Of those who carried me in battle
  Though that blood be continents away
  And generations removed from those battles.

  I am an honorable flag.
  Do not use me for ignoble purposes.
  I am a symbol of pride, not arrogance.
  I represent love of homeland, not hatred toward anyone.
  But no matter who carries me
  Or for what purposes, I cannot be dishonored.

  I secured my honor in a hundred battles
  Where good men dying passed me to good men still struggling;
  Where we prevailed against almost impossible odds;
  Where we were beaten by overwhelming numbers;
  Where I was as bloody, torn, tired, and soiled
  As the men who carried me.

  I am a worthy flag.
  I have stood watch over the graves of patriots.
  I have comforted widows in their loneliness.
  As a blood-stained rag I have been passed as a rich legacy
  To the heirs of those who had lost all for my sake.

  I am the Battle Flag of the Confederate States of America.
  Do not forsake me.