Robert A. Toombs Camp 932

08/26/2026

08/04/2026

Lesson: Why does the South consider Abraham Lincoln a war criminal?
*Lincoln acted unconstitutionally by ordering the military invasion of seceded states and declaring a naval blockade on Southern ports without a formal declaration of war or initial authorization from Congress.
*The Union military strategies, most notably General William Tecumseh Sherman’s March to the Sea and Philip Sheridan's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley. The Union army waged a total war on the South including Civilians.
By 1- committing arson and burning down civilian towns and infrastructure.
2- Confiscating or destroying private property, crops, and livestock, which left many non-combatant families destitute.
*The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus.
*He targeted and shutdown anti-war and pro-Southern printing presses and newspapers.

07/26/2026

Confederate cavalry commander General J.E.B. Stuart was mortally wounded on May 11, 1864, by Union Pvt. John A. Huff at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, just six miles north of Richmond, Virginia. He was taken to his brother-in-law's home in Richmond, where he died the following day at age 31.Stuart, known for his flamboyant style and masterful reconnaissance, was shot in the right side below the ribs while rallying his outnumbered cavalry against a raid led by Union General Philip Sheridan. The bullet perforated his intestines and severed blood vessels, resulting in a fatal and extremely painful wound.During his final hours, he received a visit from Confederate President Jefferson Davis and led those around his bed in singing the hymn "Rock of Ages". He died at 7:38 p.m. on May 12, 1864, uttering his last words: "I am resigned. God's will be done". When General Robert E. Lee learned of Stuart's death, he openly wept and stated, "Stuart had never brought me a piece of false information".

05/01/2026

Press Release: SPLC and Anti-Confederate Bias
From: Sons of Confederate Veterans
Date: April 23, 2026

The Sons of Confederate Veterans congratulates the director of the FBI and the acting Attorney General for their sweeping indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC has been accused of funding hate groups in order to raise money for the SPLC. The recent indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for “manufacturing extremism it purports to oppose” demonstrates how this left-wing organization has created a false narrative for its financial gain. The SPLC has, for many years, attacked all things Confederate by misrepresenting the truth about the causes and consequences of the War Between the States. The SPLC has been at the forefront of efforts to take down and destroy monuments, memorials, and even gravesites of anyone associated with the defense of the South during that tragic conflict.

While the SPLC and many Marxist-inspired groups have been busy misrepresenting the truth about why Confederate monuments were erected, unfortunately, conservative media outlets have protected the left-wing false narrative about the South. While most conservative media will decry removing Confederate monuments, none have made an effort to let the public hear the “rest of the story” about why that war was fought and why those monuments are important. By refusing to allow an opposing view of what the Confederate Cause truly represents, conservatives have given the SPLC, BLM, and the NAACP free rein in promoting hate against men such as Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis.

Even though slavery existed for 73 years longer in Massachusetts than it did in Mississippi, and the last slave state to be admitted into the Union was done so by the effort of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party, SPLC and such groups present slavery as strictly a Southern issue. Even though former Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Q. Adams advocated the right of secession, left-wing hate groups will still accuse Robert E. Lee of treason.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans hope the exposure of the SPLC's less-than-honorable actions will open the minds of those who choose to view the South in a negative manner.

Walter D. (Donnie) Kennedy
Commander-in-Chief,
Sons of Confederate Veterans

04/24/2026

Trolls repeatedly parrot Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens’ (shown in photo) 1861 Cornerstone Speech to push a narrow, ideological view of the Confederacy. That argument has been debunked time and again and won’t be rehashed here, it adds little beyond highlighting their selective, narrow-minded focus.

Notice how they not only ignore his other speeches but also his actual relationship with the people he once enslaved. By the time of the Civil War Stephens owned thirty-four slaves on his Liberty Hall plantation in Crawfordville, Georgia.

He never whipped them, never broke up families, and none ever tried to run away. After Appomattox, nearly all of those former slaves chose to stay with him. They continued working the land and caring for the frail, wheelchair-bound Stephens, often for little or no pay, and many begged to remain even after emancipation.

They were at his bedside when he died in 1883 as governor of Georgia. Post-war photographs (like this one) show Stephens beside his former slaves; always showing them in content, relaxed, respectful positions.

That loyalty was not unique to Stephens. Across the South, former slaves frequently insisted on remaining with their old owners, as countless WPA Slave Narratives later recorded. Many described kind masters who kept morale high, fed them well, provided medical care, and treated them more like extended family than disposable labor—conditions that gave both sides powerful incentives to preserve health and harmony.

Only a small fraction of Southern white families ever owned slaves at all, yet the testimony of those who lived it cannot be dismissed: where treatment was humane, gratitude and attachment often followed. Stephens himself later praised the “fidelity” of the people who had served him, urging legal protections and education for them as free citizens.

These stories do not excuse or defend slavery as an institution; they simply reflect the human reality that modern leftist narratives always ignore, censor, and erase.

The former slaves who stayed, supported, and outlived their onetime master did so because, in their own words and lived experience, they had been treated well.

04/03/2026

Honoring our Confederate Soliders during Confederate History Month. April 2026