page 2 - War Between The States

War Between The States

Reenacting

Is Army Sport

and

Army Sport Is Militia Sport

PAGE TWO

Combined 3rd. Ark. Inf. CSA and 9th. Arkansas Infantry CSA in Action at Old Washington State Park, Arkansas, dressing the line for a frontal assault on the Union positions with rebel dismounted Cavalry skirmishers forward at the rail fence.

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3rd. Arkansas CS Infantry at a Reenactment of "the Battle of Old Washington" and Tactical War Games in Old Washington State Park, Arkansas. Infantryman Joe "Bulldog" Johnson was with the 3rd. Arkansas Infantry CSA during this "Civil War" Event. His Great Great Grandfather, Sergeant Joseph "Bulldog" Johnson fought as a trooper in the Confederate States Cavalry, as did several more of his ancestors, several more fought in Confederate Infantry Regiments, and at least one in an Artillery Battery; others were Confederate Partisan Rangers. Like Joe Johnson many "Civil War" reenactors are members of The Sons of Confederate Veterans and/or American Rebel Militias. These Sons of the South are upholding their Southern Rebel Heritage of standing in bold defiance of US Federal tyranny.

Confederate Army Infantry Reenactors advance in Skirmish Line towards the invading Federals at Old Washington State Park in Arkansas, the scene of an Annual Civil War Reenactment Event, Tactical War Games and Living History Encampments. Army Sport is a strenuous and sometimes dangerous sport.

Confederate Army Private Joe "Bulldog" Johnson, with the 3rd. Arkansas Infantry CSA at Old Washington, Arkansas. Civil War Reenacting is Army Sport and Army Sport is Militia Sport! Pick the Right Fight! Join a Rebel Unit Today!

Joe "Bulldog" Johnson's wife Susan Johnson in "Civil War" era attire at our CS Army wedge tent in the field at a War Between The States Reenactment & Tactical War Game Event. The Ladies really enjoy the old time music and dances. The women also excel at camp fire cooking. Note the old Southern quilts on our army cots.

Arkansas State Parks Naturalist Joe Johnson in 1981.

I first got seriously involved in Civil War Reenacting while working for the Arkansas State Parks as the Interpretive Naturalist at Lake Chicot State Park at age 30 back in 1980. Many Reenacting Events are held in Arkansas State Parks every year. If you have never been to such an Event you should go to one, either in Arkansas or your own home State.

Arkansas State Parks

Website

http://www.arkansasstateparks.com/

Ark. State Park Finder

Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park

Bi-Annual Civil War Re-Enactment

December of Even Numbered Years

Union Infantry attack on Prairie Gove Battlefield

Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park

Rebel Camp at Prairie Gove Battlefield

THE RED RIVER CAMPAIGN

Jenkins' Ferry Battlefield State Park

Poison Spring Battlefield State Park

Marks' Mills Battlefield State Park

History & Heritage State Parks

American Reformation Ministries

Sunday Church Meeting at Toler Chapel

Preacher & Militia Chaplain Joe Johnson ...

....... with the Arkansas Rebel Militia and the 3rd. Arkansas Cavalry CSA years ago in August of 1993 at a 'Civil War Week-end' Living History Event we hosted at the Grant County Museum in South Arkansas between Sheridan and Jenkins Ferry Battlefield State Park. Sermon fervently preached by Chaplain Joe Johnson at Toler Chapel, an old 'Arkinsaw' Church building.

Some Artillerymen and their Lady friends were among the Congregation.

Fire! That ain't clouds in the sky that's gun smoke!

Black Powder Gun Smoke & Loud Explosion are part of Civil War Army Sport.

3rd Arkansas Cavalry CSA.

Rebel Cavalry Reenactors of the 3rd. Arkansas Cavalry CSA, Company A in Action at Old Washington, Arkansas

INDEX to the Actual Historical
3rd Regiment Arkansas Cavalry, CSA.

"The War Child's Children"

http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/3cav_indx.html

The 3rd Arkansas Cavalry was organized at Little Rock on June 10, 1861, as the 1st (Borland’s) Battalion Arkansas Cavalry. On July 27, 1861, the battalion was mustered into Confederate service for one year, and on July 29 was reorganized as the 1st Regiment Arkansas Mounted Volunteers. On January 15, 1862, it was redesignated as the 3rd Regiment Arkansas Cavalry. It was reorganized at Corinth, Mississippi, on May 26, 1862, with the addition of two companies (I and K) from the recently-disbanded Williamson’s Battalion Arkansas Infantry. Much to the dissatisfaction of the men, the regiment was dismounted to serve as infantry, and fought as such at Corinth and Hatchie Bridge, where they suffered appalling casualties. Finally, the regiment was remounted and served as cavalry for the rest of the war. The 3rd Arkansas Cavalry served under Major-General “Fighting Joe” Wheeler in the Confederate Army of Mississippi for much of the war. The regiment had an outstanding reputation, and benefited from very competent leadership. The commanders of the regiment were Colonels Solon Borland, Samuel G. Earle, and Anson W. Hobson. The remnants of the regiment surrendered with the Army of Tennessee and were paroled at Chesterfield, South Carolina, on May 5, 1865.

CIVIL WAR ALBUM . COM

lOTS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF REENACTMENTS AND BATTLEFIELD PHOTO TOURS

http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc/index.htm

http://www.civilwaralbum.com/panoramas.htm

Tennessee

1995 REENACTMENT BATTLE OF FRANKLIN

http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc2/franklin95reenact1.htm

Missouri

WILSON'S CREEK BATTLEFIELD PHOTO TOURS

http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc/wilsonscreek.htm

Arkansas

PRAIRIE GROVE BATTLEFIELD PHOTO TOURS

http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc/prairiegrove.htm

Jenkins' ferry BATTLEFIELD PHOTO TOURS

http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc/jenkinsferry.htm

A Review of the Article
White Like Me
by Dennis Wheeler

http://web.archive.org/web/20041028221321/www.mindspring.com/~dennisw/articles/white.htm

As Dr. Fleming began to develop his argument, he wrote: "Race is a far more pressing concern today than it was in 1860, when people -- Abolitionists included -- took racial differences for granted and assumed that the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant race in America constituted the greatest nation in the history of the world. But that WASP nation was divided into North and South, East and West, and in every region there were subsections and states that claimed a man's loyalty. Few Americans were generically Protestant, unless their neighborhood was being overrun by a horde of Irish Catholic immigrants, and even Calvinists were divided into sects that reflected ethnic origin and half-forgotten theological squabbles back in Scotland or Germany."

Now there's a mouthful. And I'm sad to say, I can't agree with very much of it. First, the issue of race was very important in 1860 as you can't legitimately separate the Civil War from its racial aspects, which were of primary importance. What happened, and Dr. Fleming alludes to this later in his article, was that a vast number of people in the North began accepting the Equalitarian religion, called Unitarianism. This set them at odds with the Trinitarian, or Christian, South. And while Northern whites did not really believe in the intellectual and cultural equality of the blacks with the whites, their new religion mandated that they must believe it. So they acted on their theology instead of their experience. Nothing new in that.

It is much the same today in the South. The Reconstructed Southerner doesn't truly believe in the intellectual and cultural equality of the blacks with the whites, but his mind has been reconstructed to accept the Equalitarianism of the Unitarians. And he can't find any theological grounds for opposing Equalitarianism, even though his experience tells him it's not true. And so he goes along with it. And he even vehemently opposes other Southerners who still operate from a Christian, Trinitarian paradigm, and will not accept Equalitarianism.

Second, as Dr. Fleming detailed the differences existing between the American people, he showed the dilemma that all peoples face when deciding on nationhood. Although we had different Protestant denominations, we were a Protestant country. We all spoke the English language, though various dialects. We held some common heroes. And we were "one-people" enough to voluntarily form a national government. But then the Yankee "broke faith" by turning from Trinitarianism unto Unitarianism. This forced him to demand we abolish slavery. Our people fell back on the "states' rights" defense as a euphemism for the underlying problems of religion, ethnicity, and culture. Dabney pointed out that this was a problem for Southern polemicists, that they would not argue from first principles, but instead argued from euphemisms. This is still a problem for Southern polemicists, 135 years later.

Third, I definitely can't agree that: "Few Americans were generically Protestant, unless their neighborhood was being overrun by a horde of Irish Catholic immigrants." Do you truly believe that? The first Pilgrims came here to seek religious freedom and to spread the Christian religion to the heathen living in this land. The Protestant roots of America are unassailable. This people was a God-fearing people. The Anglo-Saxon common law, hammered out during centuries of Christian rule in England, was the law of our land. Our people were one people; we spoke one language; we worshiped one God. Christianity was not imposed upon America from the top downward. It sprang from the roots upward.

Dr. Fleming continued: "In those days, a man's primary loyalty was to his kin, his friends, his church, and -- if he had sufficiently large views -- to his state. Race hardly entered into the question." I think what's missing here is the integral tie between kin and race. When we speak of a race, what are we speaking of except a group of people from the same ancestry? The family, the clan, the kinsmen, the people, etc. are just building blocks of the race. How can you say then that loyalty was primarily to one's kin, race hardly mattered? That's a head-scratcher. Perhaps Dr. Fleming will be kind enough to explain that distinction in the future.

Dr. Fleming continued: "In the 20th century, most of these ancient loyalties were undermined and eroded by a ruling class that imported millions of aliens..." I not only agree with this, but see it as a major problem in the United States at large. The "people" here now hardly resembles the "people" that originally founded the country. There are huge cultural differences, huge linguistic differences, huge ethnic differences, and many other huge differences. The only qualifier I would give to his statement is that I don't see this as a problem that has been foisted on us by a ruling class, it is the logical outworking of the new religion that gained the upper hand in the country with the Union victory in the Civil War. Alien immigration is a religious exercise. It is a testing and proving of Equalitarianism. It carries with it a moral "ought" to those who accept the new religion. Most people are opposed to it since their experience tells them it's bad for the society. But since they have no theological grounds to oppose it, they allow it.

Dr. Fleming continued: "So here we are, 260 million well-fed savages prowling through the ruins, scavenging bits of civilization from museums and bookstores like street people browsing through the garbage cans." This is an excellent piece of literary prose. I wish I could write like that. And while this may be true of the average American, it is certainly not true of the Southerner. We still have our civilization; we still have our language; we still have our heroes; we still have our land. It is the purpose and duty of the Southern movement to educate our people, reacquaint them with our nation, promote our national awareness, and move us forward socially, politically, morally, economically, by all honorable means.

http://web.archive.org/web/20041028221321/www.mindspring.com/~dennisw/articles/white.htm