April 16, 2022 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
One of the busiest nights of the year as we are working our way through our two busiest months of the year.
They don't make music like that anymore.
They can't.
The adverse effects of dysgenics are too widespread.
But we will welcome you to the show anyway this Saturday evening, April the 16th.
We are in the midst of our annual Confederate History Month celebration.
Also, tonight is the Saturday just before Easter.
So Pastor Brett McAtee will be with us in the third hour to share with us the biblical accounting of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
So stay tuned for that as we continue to work through two very busy months, March Around the World of Confederate History Month, add Easter to that.
And you've got three hours of talk radio tailor-made for TPC.
It seems as though all of the things that make this show so special are coming into a blend tonight in perfect synthesis.
And I knew it was coming up last week.
I woke up Sunday morning last week just jumping out of my skin, anxious and eager to get back on to the show tonight.
I've very much been excited about doing this show for a few weeks.
We've got other guests coming up tonight in the second hour, including Neil Kumar, the candidate for the United States House of Representatives out of Arkansas.
He'll be on the Republican primary ballot in May.
So coming up next month, and he'll give us another update from the campaign trail there.
But in addition to that, of course, Easter Confederate History Month, here we go.
James Edwards and Keith Alexander.
Keith, I had the opportunity yesterday to spend the day at Shiloh with my wife and children.
And kids are like sponges.
They absorb what you pour into them.
And of course, throughout my time as a father, I have poured into them a healthy respect for the faith of our fathers and for their earthly ancestors as well.
And of course, pride and our culture and our heritage.
And so when we were driving up to Shiloh yesterday, it made me very proud for my seven-year-old boy to say, hey, Dad, can you play Dixie again?
And to see my 12-year-old daughter singing it as loud as she could and just learning about their great, great, great, great grandfather, three times great for me, four times for my kids, who was on that field 160 years ago this month.
And that's the thing about it, ladies and gentlemen.
That's the thing about it that was so remarkable to me.
Well, first of all, there was a couple of things, I guess.
I could talk to you about any element of Confederate History Month, any element of Confederate heroism or the battles, and we could read it from a textbook.
But to actually go and to walk that ground, to actually be there, it really reaches you on a much deeper level to be there, to be there.
And I was thinking, my ancestor who fought at Shiloh was born in the fall of 1840.
And so Shiloh was fought in the spring of 1862.
So he was 21 years old when he was there, 160 years ago this month.
And of course, there could have been no way for him to have ever imagined that what he was doing in that moment would be something that his great-great-great-grandson would come back to pay respects to him with his children 160 years later.
So that's what we talk about when we're talking about bridging the gap between our past and our present and our future.
Of course, the enemy uses our ignorance as a weapon against us, and they want us to be disinvested from our history.
They want us to forget the people who are our betters.
And they're examples of courage and valor and gallantry.
But yeah, I was thinking that, though, man, 160 years later, here I am with my kids telling them about this man.
And it makes you wonder, does it not?
In 160 years, will you have any descendants who remember the good deeds you did on this earth?
I mean, isn't that one of the things we're fighting for?
And people could say, our detractors could say, well, James, that's fine if you want to do that, but we've got the world.
The world is going against you.
And to that, I would reply, I don't care which way the world goes.
I may be in this world, but I'm not of it.
And I'm not here to save the world either.
I'm here to save my family.
And that I can do, and that I will do.
Keith, it was a great day at Shiloh.
We're going to be spending a lot of the first hour.
I'm going to be sharing my observations and reflections on what I saw, some of the things I learned even there at Shiloh yesterday.
Of course, I've been there many times before, but not in a few years.
And we'll be bobbing and weaving in and out of those things.
And I think making some points.
Folks, you're going to learn something this hour.
I guarantee you, you'll learn something you didn't know before this hour, before this hour is up.
And hopefully you'll be able to do it in an entertaining fashion.
But Keith, with that being said, I want to say hello to you tonight, my friend.
Happy Easter.
Happy Confederate History Month as it continues here on TPC.
Well, thank you very much.
I, too, have a special connection with Shiloh.
First of all, I've given my presentation on the true causes of the Civil War to their SCV camp up there.
I've visited them before.
There is some fellow out there, and I wish I could recall his name, that has a store just outside of the entrance to the national park.
And he has the most incredible display of old soldiers, you know, little toy soldiers and whatnot from Civil War, you know, Civil War reproduction type, you know, painted up in blue and gray.
Plus he has some from the Napoleonic era.
Plus he has all of these model airplanes.
He inherited the whole kitten caboodle from some person from California who visited Shiloh and saw his place and saw that he had a similar type of display.
And he left all of his collection to him.
So that's something that you need to see.
I wish I could get the name of that place.
I can't recall it right now, but I've been there.
And there's a gentleman named McCammon who is a friend of mine who is a member of that camp.
And he's, you know, all of these people are salt of the earth up there that are part of the Sons of Confederate veterans, really good people.
And they have a lot of young people up there.
Now, you were talking about your relatives that were in the Battle of Shiloh.
I had two.
The Alexanders had 12 children of age at that time.
My great-grandfather was IES Alexander, Independence Ellen Schuler Alexander.
He fought there, and he had a brother.
They were running out of names by the end.
His brother's name was President Washington Alexander.
Well, at the Battle of Shiloh, President Washington Alexander was killed, and I.E.S. Alexander was seriously wounded.
President Washington Alexander.
Yeah, you say it.
You said it last week, but every time I hear that name, I smile.
Yeah, well, you got to smile.
But see, that's humble folks that we come from.
But, for example, I.E.S. Alexander was recovering from his wounds when Nathan Bedford Forrest came through Bedford County.
And that's where Forrest got his name.
And he said he wanted to fight with his fellow Bedford County.
He fought with him in the 15th Tennessee Cavalry to the end of the war.
We've got, I think this is going to be a very entertaining hour.
If it goes the way I planned, no plan survives the battle.
We'll see how this one goes, though, talking about my mashallah yesterday with the crowd.
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Why does the left lie constantly?
Because they get spiritual power from lying.
The lies come from Satan, the father of lies.
John 8:44.
Here's how the political lying process works.
Satan provides the beast with a lie.
Then the more they use the lie, the more spiritual power they get.
Look, the media is a lie multiplier, and this multiplication gives more evil spiritual power to the beast.
And that can overwhelm and even deceive the body of Christ, especially when the body is being disobedient to the head.
The churches today are incorporated, so they're subordinate to human government.
They obey the beast and do nothing to restore our national relationship with God.
And the government shall be on his shoulders.
Isaiah 9:6.
That verse is not for the present-day church.
Rather, it is for the end time church, the body of the line of Judah.
A message from Christ Kingdom Ministries.
A message from Christ Kingdom Ministries.
We are going to blend in celebration of our faith with celebration of our earthly heritage tonight as Easter meets Confederate History Month.
So, yes, you're going to have some gospel music, southern gospel music, that is, and that's Ray Stevens.
Turn your radio on.
The song behind, or the story rather, behind that song, that was his dad's favorite gospel song.
He asked if he could release it.
The record company said, We're not going to let you release that.
You're not a gospel singer.
You're a pop singer.
And he said, Well, I can make that a pop pit.
And sure enough, he did.
He could do that with music.
He took Misty and rearranged it and won a Grammy for best new production.
So, you know, he was known as a comedic singer, but he also had very good musical chops.
Well, you know, his biggest hit was his first hit, Ahab the A-rab.
Came out, I think, in 62.
And that was such a big hit because the Jewish DJs in New York absolutely loved it as a send-up of Arabs.
But it was really an inventive and witty song.
And he had Harry the Hairy Ape and he had other songs like that in the comedic vein.
But then he did, you know, Everything is Beautiful.
He did this, Turn Your Radio On.
He had a lot of hits, and he had a television show with the Nashville Network that carried on for years and really was a success.
He was quite a talented man.
He was, and he still performs and came out of Georgia, just a good southern boy.
And that takes us back to Shiloh, where I was yesterday.
Well, I should tell you that it was a beautiful day.
Yesterday was unimaginably beautiful.
It was about 70 degrees and breezy and sunny there on the battlefield, 160 years after the fact, and to be there with my children and my wife, very meaningful to me, very special.
And we actually had the chance to hop on a tour.
And I took an hour-long tour with we were part of a group, of course.
It wasn't just for us, but there was a park ranger who gave the tour.
And he, it's a driving tour.
The battlefield is, of course, quite expansive.
You couldn't walk it.
I guess you could.
It would take a day at least.
But anyway, it was a driving tour.
And I made a comment to the Ranger, and I didn't identify myself, so he didn't know who I was.
But I just said, I appreciate your neutrality and you being so matter of fact.
And he certainly was.
And one of the things that was not mentioned one time, Keith, throughout the whole tour or on any of the signage throughout the park was the word slavery.
And we stopped at all of the sites.
We stopped at the Peach Orchard and Bloody Pond and the Hornet's Nest, where General Ruggles, General Daniel Ruggles, this is an interesting story out of the Battle of Shiloh.
On the first day, the Confederates won the first day, but they couldn't break through the Hornet's Nest.
They had two advances that failed, and they called it the Hornet's Nest because there was so much gunfire buzzing past their ears.
They said it sounded like being in the middle of a swarm of hornets.
That's how much gunfire the Yankees were running down on our boys.
And after the first two failed attempts to break the Union line there, General Ruggles said, Get me every cannon that's on this battlefield and bring it here.
And at the time, he amassed the greatest battery of artillery that the North American continent had ever seen.
He had 64 cannons.
And he trained it on the Union position there and he blasted them to hell.
And then the third advance of the Confederates won, and they got a big surrender out of that particular unit.
But there, I mean, now, if the narrative was written, it would be General Ruggles put all these cannons here because he was a white supremacist and he hated black people and he wanted to keep them enslaved.
And that just wasn't there.
And it's amazing that in this day and age, you could get, you know, we're not looking for favorability, but objectivity is nice.
And it was there yesterday.
I'm sure that if the usual suspects were telling the story, the Union defenders in the Hornet's Nest would all be black.
And they would make a special movie about it starring Denzel Washington or, you know, someone else of his ilk.
See, what happened at Shiloh the first day Albert Sidney Johnson, who had been the Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas and was a probably the most, I think you told me he was the most, he was the highest-ranked general on either side to die in combat in the Civil War.
Tell us what you know about it, but I'll tell you this, is that you've got to understand the Battle of Shiloh was very early in the war, April of 1862.
And at that time, that was before Lee and Forrest and Jackson had carved out their legacies.
And at the time, Albert Sidney Johnson, the Confederate general, was the most revered, I think you could say.
And the Union respected and admired him very much.
There's just so many what-ifs and could have been, could-have-bends when you look back at history.
But if Albert Sidney Johnson had survived the fighting that first day of Shiloh, you know, would we have protected the Mississippi Valley and turned the war?
Well, he was winning the battle in the first day.
He was commanding, you know, from the heights and apparently got shot in the leg and wasn't even aware of it.
Looked down in his cavalryman's boot, you know, that comes up to about his knee had blood flowing out of it.
You know, it filled up and was coming out of the top.
So he died from lack of, from loss of blood.
And again, a big what-if would be if he had survived, what would have happened?
His place was taken by PGT Beauregard, who already committed a major blunder at First Manassas by not following up on the Union troops and capturing Washington, impossible capturing Lincoln.
Could you imagine?
It would have been just like San Jacinto in the War for Texas independence.
They won that war primarily because they captured Santa Ana, the leader.
Now, if the Confederacy in that first battle had captured Lincoln, their leader, it might have ended the war then and there.
But alas, that didn't happen.
Well, PGT Beauregard took over the Confederate high command at Shiloh and did not press the fight despite the protestations of Nathan Bedford Forrest, who wanted to capture Pittsburgh Landing so he could deny a landing by Don Carlos Buell's Union troops from across the river.
If he had done that, we probably, the Confederacy would have won that battle.
Well, this is the thing.
And if they'd have won that battle, they would have protected the Mississippi River Valley.
I mean, you mentioned First Manassas.
I mean, again, they were too good for their own good.
They were too honorable.
But there was a star-studded lineup at Shiloh.
We mentioned General Albert Sidney Johnston, who was killed.
He was the highest-ranking general on either side to die in the war.
P.G.T. Beauregard, you mentioned Forrest was there.
He was not yet a general, but he was there.
Leonidas Polk was there.
Braxton Bragg was in.
Braxton Bragg cost the South plenty.
Nothing to brag about.
And John Breckinridge was there, the former Vice President of the United States.
He ran for president in 1860.
And quite frankly, he was one of the four or three people that split the anti-Republican vote.
And if he had not run or if Bell had not run John Bell and everybody had gotten behind Stephen Douglas, he probably would have won because all Lincoln got was 39% of the vote.
You know who else was there at Shiloh?
Who?
William Tecumseh Sherman.
And there was an article written by Winston Groom who wrote Forrest Gump, and he wrote it in February of 2012, Sherman's Folly at Shiloh.
We were talking about this at supper tonight before the show, and you just said, you know, that the North didn't have particularly talented leaders.
They just, it was a war of attrition.
They had more men and they had more material.
And so you can win a war that way, even if your commanders are inept.
And Sherman was one of these guys.
I was not willing to sacrifice your troops like Sherman and Grant were.
Well, Sherman, I don't know if he ever won a battle where he fought against other men.
There was a situation when he lost his command in Louisville because he let it be known to his subordinates that he was afraid of being attacked.
This is William DeCun Sherman.
He also follied at first Manassas of, you know, commanding his troops there.
And that was a union defeat, surprising union defeat.
He follied at Shiloh.
He follied at Kennesaw.
But they said, well, you know what?
If this guy can't win, and of course, Forrest never seemed to have much trouble outmaneuvering and outwitting him.
They just gave him a torch and an army.
They said, Why don't you go down to these towns down here and burn them out when it's just women and children?
Can you handle that?
He could handle that.
That he could do.
He killed all the livestock.
He basically tried to starve the South out.
The South was the subject of total war for the first time, basically, in modern history.
If what had happened had been, you know, that what had happened in the Civil War is an example of nice guys finishing last.
The South burnt down one Union town, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, under Jubal Early's troops to protest the massive destruction caused by Sherman's march to the sea.
But on the other hand, Sherman and the Federals burned down 43 towns in the state of Mississippi alone.
And the state of Mississippi wasn't even a major theater in the war.
That shows you how destructive they were.
They basically were killing people, making war on the civilians, starving them out, all of those types of things.
Those tactics that gentlemen like the Southerners did not engage in.
Boy, if we could do it over again, turn about as fair play.
Let me take a break.
I'm going to share with you more of my observations.
I think some of them you'll find interesting.
From Shiloh, I was there just yesterday.
A sacred battlefield.
We'll be right back.
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Our cultural heritage is beautiful, Keith.
Our spiritual heritage is beautiful, and it all connects tonight on TPC this April evening as we celebrate our Confederate History Month and Easter with Pastor Brett McAtee the third hour.
I called Pastor Brett first thing as he got out of church on Sunday afternoon last week.
And I said, you know, he's been coming on with us since my pastor had a stroke and couldn't come on for the Christmas and Easter shows anymore.
And Pastor Brett's just done a great job.
You know, in fact, talk about Ray Stevens, my pastor and I interviewed Ray Stevens together on this very show a few years ago.
But that was a fun one.
But anyway, so that's all happening tonight as we continue.
Neil Kumar in the second hour.
You know, Neil Kumar, not only is he running for Congress, he wrote one of the greatest love letters to the Confederacy that I've ever read.
It was his speech on Confederate Memorial Day a year or two ago.
I still remember that.
Unbelievable.
I've never seen anyone write like that about the South.
I think it is the strongest and most historically enlightening version of what happened, what actually happened in Reconstruction as opposed to what supposedly happened in Reconstruction.
I just, you know, I wish I could play that.
I wish I had a tape of it.
We'll ask him about it.
We'll ask him.
But also, regarding our Christian heritage in the South, the South was part of the frontier.
And because it was part of the frontier, there were not a lot of, you know, bishops and people like that in hierarchical churches.
They had to rely on, you notice that in a non-hierarchical church, the pastors are brother this and brother that, where in a hierarchical church like the Episcopal Church or the Roman Catholic Church, it's father this and that.
Well, you had to have a brother because there were not that many ordained clergy out on the wilderness.
And they needed somebody.
Basically, they chose among themselves who was the most biblically literate person and the person who had the best delivery and they felt lived a good Christian life.
That would be their pastor.
And that's where all of this comes from.
And, you know, I remember watching Treasure Island once, and they were, oh, Long John Silver, they were trying to find the gold or the treasure chest.
And they saw a guy laid out on the ground, his skeleton.
And Long John Silver said, oh, this makes my blood run cold.
As he's pointing the way to the bloons, and one of the sailors said, ah, he's a sailor.
Likewise, this is good sea cloth.
And Long John Silver said, you wouldn't expect to find a bishop here, would you?
Well, see, that shows you exactly what the situation was.
There were not a lot of clergy, you know, ordained clergy people out on the frontier or in the islands of the Caribbean and places like that.
So they had to rely for their Christian education and, you know, fellowship with fellow Christians.
And that's the heritage that the southern fundamentalist Christianity comes from.
Well, it certainly trickled down to me.
And there was a great revival, by the way, of the Confederate Army during those war years.
But let's get back to Shiloh.
Something you may not know about Shiloh, well, maybe there's a few things you don't know about it.
Why is it called Shiloh?
Shiloh was the name of a church that stood there on the battlefield, or where the battle took place, there was a church named Shiloh.
And Shiloh is in the Bible, right?
Shiloh means place of peace.
Can you believe that?
I mean, that's irony right there.
And there was a church there in that community called the Shiloh Church.
And so that's where the battle got its name.
And the Union called it the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing.
That was key to their victory, Don Carlos Buell being able to take his Union army across the river to where the battle was.
And that's what Forrest wanted to prevent.
If he could have prevented that, the South would have won the British.
Well, that's the thing you said about Jefferson Davis, and we love President Davis, but he went by rank rather than by instinct.
And by resume rather than performance.
And Lincoln just was looking for somebody to fight.
All right.
And so anyway, Shiloh sits on the Tennessee River.
And that is what you're talking about.
Pittsburgh Landing was the place on the Tennessee River where the Union was reinforced after the first night of fighting where they lost.
They were able to reinforce themselves through the river.
The Confederates had to get their reinforcements from Corinth, Mississippi, which was 20 miles away through Rough Road.
And what Forrest wanted to do was capture Pittsburgh Landing and resist any landing of Union troops.
Had he been able to persuade his superiors to do that, I think there would have been a totally different result in the Battle of Shiloh.
Again, a lot of what-ifs and could-have-beens.
But nevertheless, what you may not know about Shiloh is that there is an Indian village on the side.
And I don't mean one of these touristy things.
I mean, there's an actual village where Indians used to live, American Indians.
Now, of course, they weren't living there at the time of the battle.
That site had been long since abandoned.
But there is a collection of at least a dozen mounds.
And these weren't burial mounds, which looked similar.
These were mounds that housed the chiefs' residence and the temples and the marketplaces.
And then there was this plaza in the middle where they would gather and play their stickball games and things like that.
So it's remarkable.
And I climbed up, Keith, of one of the mounds, the Temple Mound, the most prominent mound in the complex.
And if you go to my Twitter, ladies and gentlemen, at James Edwards TPC on Twitter, you can see some of the pictures I posted yesterday.
A beautiful picture from atop this mound looking down on the Tennessee River at Pittsburgh Landing, very near Pittsburgh Landing where the Union troops were reinforced.
It's just a breathtaking picture of natural beauty.
But anyway, one thing about it is that the American Indians in the South all fought for the Confederacy.
And you say, well, they may have fought for the Confederacy, but were they of any use?
And, you know, of course, not as much as you would hope, but they weren't worthless either.
I mean, we talk about General Stan Waddy being one of the last to surrender his charge.
Yes, that's right.
But Indians did fight admirably for the Confederacy at the Battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas.
There, two armies collided.
The Confederate Army at the Battle of Pea Ridge included a large number of American Indian troops.
Two regiments of Cherokees, about a thousand men, fought for the Confederate Army and routed, routed two companies of Union cavalry at the Battle of Pea Ridge.
So we, look, I'm not into the whole rainbow Confederacy thing.
That's the SCV, some of the SCV.
It wasn't that way.
The Confederacy was a white man's nation, as America was intended to be upon its founding.
So I'm not a Rainbow Confederate, but facts are facts.
And the American Indians in the South, to a man, fought for the Confederacy just about.
Well, the Cherokees, you know, that were supposedly so mistreated with the Trail of Tears were totally on the side of the Confederacy.
And if you want to read something that is stirring and also enlightening, read their Declaration of Independence and their alliance with the South document written and delivered by their head chief.
You know, it was really in Pea Ridge is up in the northwest corner of Arkansas, very near Oklahoma, which is where they were relocated after the Trail of Tears.
And quite frankly, that land was much better suited for cultivation and growing of crops and hunting than the land that they left in Tennessee.
You know, the Chickasaw, well, yes, in East Tennessee and in North Carolina, yeah, the Cherokee, the Chickasaw lived in this part of the country in western, southwestern Tennessee and in northern Mississippi.
As a matter of fact, the Chickasaw signed the Treaty of Pontock Creek and in Pontotock, Mississippi, that's where my maternal grandparents are from.
It talks about their eventual trek on the so-called Trail of Tears, and it mentions the Chickasaw numbering about 5,000.
I don't know the exact numbers, but I was reading this just a few days ago.
The Chickasaw numbering 5,000 and their 1,500 African-American slaves.
Now, hold on, wait a minute now.
All this talk about slavery, I never heard the Indians, of course I did, but did you?
Did you, little boy and girl in public school?
Did you hear?
You know, they had them too.
It was the way of the world.
So all these people that say, hey, slavery is so bad, they're not anti-slavery.
You know, they never mentioned the slaves that were on.
Slavery was an enterprise unique to the American South in 1861 to 1865.
That's what they want you to believe.
They never mentioned that the Chickasaws had slaves too and that they got to take them on the Trail of Tears with them.
That's historical fact.
They're not anti-slavery.
They're anti-white.
And it's used as a bludgeon to make us feel guilty.
I don't feel guilty.
I oppose slavery.
I wish slavery had never happened for one reason and one reason alone.
It was bad for white people.
Look, it's a stick they beat us with.
White Southerners and Germans are the whipping boys of leftists throughout the world, supposedly because of our mistreatment of the Germans, the Jews, and the Southerners' black slaves.
And let me tell you that it was just not that way.
White people were enslaved by Africans for a lot longer than Africans were enslaved by white people.
Booked by Michael Kaufman, Michael Hoffman.
I got it over there.
They were whites and they were slaves.
If you can find it, get it.
This was the way of the world, and I don't apologize for it.
I regret that it happened.
It was bad for my people, and that's why.
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I was a kid, I'd take a trip every summer down to Mississippi to visit my granny and her antebellum work.
I'd run barefooted all day long, climbing trees, free as a song.
One day, I happened to catch myself a squirrel.
Fella stuffed him down in an old shoebox, punched a couple holes in the top, Sunday came, snuck him into church.
I was sitting way back in the very last few, showing him to my good buddy Hugh when the squirrel got loose, went totally for certain.
What happened next is hard to tell.
Some thought it was heaven, others thought it was hell, but the fact that something was among us was plain to see.
As the choir sang, I surrender all.
Squirrel run up hard, Newlands, cover all his heart leaped through his feet, said, Something's got to hold on me.
Yeah, the day the squirrel gets certain.
And the first set of Blackstone Church in that sleepy little town of Pascal.
It was a fight for survival.
And book out in the Bible.
They were jumping to views and shouting, Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
You know, that's a funny song, but interestingly enough, as everything is serendipitous tonight, my pastor, you know, who stood up to the Southern Baptist Convention on my behalf, even as I begged him not to, he said it was the right thing to do.
He wasn't doing it because he loved me.
Is doing it because the right thing to do.
That's a man.
That's a man worthy of his southern patrimony and of his spiritual heritage.
And he stood up for the SPLC.
And man, there's not many men who will suffer anything for it.
SBC and the SPLC.
I don't know.
No, yeah, that's the truth.
And so the church was this fellowship from the Southern Baptist Convention.
But in that song, Ray Stevens mentions the first self-righteous church of Pascagoula.
My pastor was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
He was a Gulf Coast guy.
He used to deliver the Easter message of the propaganda.
That's right.
Of course, of course.
And of course, when we obtained all of that, Pascagoula is so close to Biloxi down there on the Mississippi Gulf Coast when we gathered all of that original slate of Jefferson Davis' roof.
I gave a piece to Pastor along with a certificate of authenticity from the curator down there, and he has it framed in his house to this day.
So anyway, just great story.
But back to Shiloh.
And I'll tell you, I have benefited from having great people in my life.
We're going to be playing some more gospel songs in the legitimate gospel songs, I guess you could say, in the second and third hours when we have Brett McAtee on.
Also, Reverend David Jones will be on, in addition to Neil Kumar, as we blend in and tie together our spiritual and cultural heritage this Confederate History Month and Easter weekend.
But it's a beautiful thing to have strong men in your life to set an example.
And singing some of these songs with my grandparents and some of the songs you'll hear later, I should say, with my parents and grandparents on those pews on Sunday morning helped get me to where I am tonight, that's for sure.
At Shiloh, though, speaking of Mississippi, you know, I am a second-generation Tennessean.
I have mentioned this before.
But at the time of the war, my family was all down in Mississippi on both sides.
My paternal and maternal sides were in northern Mississippi.
And I took a picture and I posted it at my Twitter account at James Edwards TPC on Twitter.
If you want to take a look at the Mississippi Memorial at the Battle of Shiloh for all of the men who fell from the state of Mississippi in service to the Confederate States of America.
Now, one thing about Shiloh, I don't know how many acres it is, but it is sprawling.
And as I said, it's as far as in the Boy Scouts.
They had a big, you got a merit badge for hiking the trail along the river and whatnot.
It was a huge huge battlefield.
And there are monuments.
The monuments are not clustered together.
The monuments are spread across the entire battlefield.
And again, this is miles of roads, okay?
Miles of roads to cover all of the battlefield.
Interestingly about the monuments you'll find at Shiloh is they are all positioned where the troops that they honor were positioned, okay?
And they are facing in the direction that those troops were facing at the moment of their activity on the battlefield that got them the commemoration.
And so the monument to the soldiers from the state of Mississippi is on the field there.
And the battalion positioned at that point suffered 70% casualty rate.
Now, remember, casualties include fatalities and the wounded, correct?
70% casualties while charging uphill towards enemy artillery.
And they could see the artillery and the artillery could see them.
And still they charge.
And it's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
And it's a beautiful monument.
There is a monument to the entire Confederacy there, the Confederate Memorial Monument at Shiloh.
And the symbolism there is so striking.
You have, it basically tells a story.
You have the Confederates marching up from Corinth to engage in the battle at Shiloh.
And, of course, the South lost that battle.
But as they are marching towards Shiloh, you have the two soldiers with their heads held high, and they're proud and they're strong.
And then in the middle of the monument, you have Lady Victory taking the wreath of victory away from the South and handing it to death.
And there's a figure that represents death behind her.
You can check this out on my Twitter as well.
And then you have the two Confederate soldiers looking forlorn with their heads bowed as they retreat.
But this is a monument.
It's a beautiful thing to fight.
I mean, of course, we wished we could have won.
We wanted to win.
I wish we could fight it again.
I am so proud of my patrimony.
But this is a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful monument.
In the middle, you've got Albert Sidney Johnston.
Well, you know, you said that the South never smiled after the Battle of Shiloh.
So I've heard.
But let me tell you this.
The South fought honorably, but again, what does that count for?
Absolutely nothing.
As Al Davis of the Oakland Raiders had said, just win, baby.
You can see that the winners write the history.
The winners decide who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.
But there's a record being held kept up in heaven.
And I think that the South was the real good guys in the Civil War, not the North.
I don't think there's any thinking to that.
The North fought dishonorably.
They used total war.
They made war upon old men, women, and children, starving them, raping them, you know, killing them.
The South didn't do that.
I don't know if it was Robert E. Lee's influence or just the influence of Southern society generally.
They did not, I think it was Lee that said, we don't make war upon old men, women, and children, only upon armed soldiers of our adversary.
Now, where did that get them?
Nice guys finish last, as Leo DeRoshi said.
There was a piece of signage inside the museum.
They have a museum, a little interpretive center that plays a video about the battle.
I didn't stay for the video.
It was 45 minutes long, frankly, and I have three kids, one of which is an 18-month-old.
So that was never going to work for yesterday's purposes.
But inside the museum, I took a picture of a sign and also posted that to Twitter.
And it reads, although short on equipment and almost without uniform, the Confederate soldiers who gathered at Corinth were nevertheless long on enthusiasm.
They represented most of the states of the Lower South and were itching to send the Yankees reeling back north.
And above that, I put the caption, I'm still itching to send them back north.
And one of our listeners and one of our supporters responded, Keith, and reminded me of something that I did not need reminding of, but I should state the fact here, if it should be needed, that, yes, James, honor your ancestors, but remember, you have supporters like me in the North as well.
And that's for sure.
This thing now, look, we're beyond all of that.
We're beyond.
We receive so much of our support from outside the South.
We have people all over the country and all over the world that support this radio program.
And so this is not, listen, we're not married to the North versus South anymore.
If you're a right-thinking white man or woman outside of the South, we welcome you as an ally in this thing every bit as much.
I mean, there are so many Southerners who've forgotten who they are.
People like Russell Moore, who were born in Mississippi, I wouldn't spit on that man.
If he was on fire.
Yeah, that's right.
So, I mean, listen, we don't get into that.
We're all one family.
And no more brothers' wars and all of those good things.
One united European family.
But, but, but this is our personal patrimony and our personal history and ancestors.
And so that's why we honor them.
And, of course, the least of which we should remind you, the South was right.
And it's always worthy of remembrance, but it is not at the expense of our northern and international brothers who share our beliefs and are in this cause with us, of course.
Well, I can say our fans in the North and in Europe, I think, understand that the South was right in terms of the principles that they were defending.
They were defending the principles of the United States Constitution as actually written by the founding fathers.
The departure that was represented by the Civil War has led America into this imperial overstretch that we're involved in right now.
In fact, you know, in Ukraine and with Russia is the latest playing out of it.
We're seeing that another brother's war, white people killing white people, and there's nothing that the usual suspects would like better than to also drag another white nation, the United States, into it so that we had a nuclear war.
Yeah, you know, the thing about it is, though, this was brought up a couple of weeks ago, or maybe it was last week, but the flag of Don Bass is the Confederate flag minus the stars.
Of course, the stars represented the 11 states that seceded and the two that would have, Kentucky and Missouri, had it not been for Lincoln's monkey shines.
But it's the same flag sans the stars.
And that's flying over the – We have a special one that is made for us.
It says – You've got to get close to the mic and read that thing.
Okay.
This is actually something that a longtime listener and dear friend in Arkansas made for us on one of our anniversaries.
I believe it was our 15th anniversary.
It says, our legions march upon crimson sod, fighting like titans, striking like gods.
The battle for our homeland shall never abate until every tyrant is crushed and every wrong is set straight.
It says, no retreat, no apologies, no surrender.
The political suspect.
That's right.
It's a beautiful, beautiful battle flag.
And it is the actual battle flag.
It is square and not rectangular.
And it flies over every show we do, does it not, Keith?
It does.
It's here in our studio.
And let me tell you that the southern flag, just an aesthetic appeal alone, is the most beautiful, striking, and stirring national flag ever.
It's masculine.
It's manly.
It is bright.
It is inspiring.
Just, it is.
It's all of that.
Hey, I hope you enjoyed our recounting of my day at Shiloh yesterday and Keith's commentary as well on that.
We'll be back with U.S. Congressional candidate Neil Kumar from Arkansas next.