Salute! The gravesite of Charles Frederick Lutz (June 20, 1842–April 9, 1910), a free Black Confederate veteran laid to rest in Magnolia Cemetery, Westlake, Louisiana (near Lake Charles). Born in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, to Frederick Guillaume Lutz and Caroline Marx, Lutz was a tanner by trade and a free man of color who voluntarily enlisted on June 23, 1861, at Camp Moore in Company F (the Opelousas Guards), 8th Louisiana Infantry Regiment, CSA, serving as a Private throughout h

Christmas Across Dixie! Visiting Appomattox County Courthouse & Confederate Memorial in Appomattox, Virginia! The courthouse grounds have since been heavily renovated although the memorial and canons remain the same. [video taken Dec 18, 2021, RJ] "The motives which actuated the Southern soldier were not those of a vulgar love of conquest or ambition for power, but a simple, honest defense of his home and fireside against what he believed to be an unjust and unconstitutional invasion of his righ