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Southern Honor and the Confederacy Memorial Address
A memorial address extols Southern heritage, recounts Georgia's Memorial Day origins, and defends Confederate legacy. It praises James Oglethorpe, diverse early settlers, slavery as a complex institution, secession, and states’ rights while contrasting northern abolitionist views. It honors the United Daughters of the Confederacy and previews a memorial address by Robert E. Lee II in Atlanta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dauhters
Annie Wheeler
Veterans of
Camp McDaniel
South
Georgia
Confederacy
James Edward Oglethorpe
Colony of
England
Oglethorpe
Ebenezer
John
Charles Wesley
George Whitefield
Cyrus
Land of
Israel
Jamestown
Marblehead
Massachusetts
Georgia Colony
Philadelphia
Virginia
New York
North
Mason and Dixon
New England
Sumner
Phillips
Garrison
Parker
Fort Sumter
Whittier
Barbara Freitchie
Stonewall Jackson
Daniel Webster
Hayne
Congress
Horace Greely
Supreme Court of the United States
Salmon P.chase
William Lloyd Garrison
Wendell Phillips
United Daughters of Confederacy
Mildred Rutherford
Commonwealth
Alabama
Mississippi
South Carolina
Ole Marster
Marster
Darkey
Poplar
Atlanta
Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus
George Hillyer
Milledgeville
Henry Grady
United Daughters