Military Times reports “trust and confidence” in our military dropped from 70% in 2018 to 48% in 2022–Politicization cited as number one problem

Posted on January 31, 2023February 1, 2023 by Gene Kizer, Jr. | 3 Comments

Military Times reports "trust and confidence" in our military dropped from 70% in 2018 to 48% in 2022

Politicization cited as number one problem

Woke policies in the military are worse than politicization

Recruiting crisis is wakeup call but serious damage has already been done

USS Chancellorsville, named after Gen. Robert E. Lee's "perfect battle" when Lee was outnumbered by Joseph Hooker 133,868 to 60,298 but won a huge Confederate victory over six days of fierce fighting April 30 to May 6, 1863. It was recommended by Elizabeth Warren's naming commission to have the USS Chancellorsville's name scrubbed this year.

USNS Maury, an oceanographic survey ship named for the Father of Modern Oceanography, Matthew Fontaine Maury, because, after 36 years in the U.S. Navy, he would not go against his home state of Virginia and his family. He joined the Confederacy and for that, the Woke naming commission has recommended the USNS Maury's name be scrubbed. How can you have a better name for an oceanographic survey ship than one named after the Father of Modern Oceanography?

Arlington National Cemetery, 109 year old Confederate Memorial to the Reconciliation and Reunification of our great nation after our bloodiest war. It was the brainchild of Union soldier and president, William McKinley, who said "every soldier's grave made during our unfortunate civil war is a tribute to American valor." The sculptor, internationally renowned Jewish artist Moses Jacob Ezekiel, was a VMI Confederate soldier. Art critic Michael Robert Patterson states that "no sculptor, as far as known, has ever, in any one memorial told as much history as has Ezekiel in his monument at Arlington; and every human figure in it, as well as every symbol, is in and of itself a work of art." In a barbaric crime against art and history, the naming commission and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin want the monument demolished.

Aerial view of the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery with over 500 graves of Confederate military personnel and some family in concentric circles around the monument. Sculptor Moses Ezekiel is buried with two other Confederate soldiers and one Confederate sailor around the base. The monument is literally their headstone but the naming commission and Secretary Austin want the monument destroyed. Respect for Southern dead is not something they care about despite 44% of today's United States military being recruited in the South.

View from the ground at Arlington National Cemetery of the beautiful Confederate Memorial to the reconciliation of North and South. The Woke naming commission and Secretary Austin want it demolished in the cheapest way possible. Photo courtesy Derrick Johnson.

[Publisher's Note, by Gene Kizer, Jr. - Our military used to be the greatest colorblind meritocracy in the history of the world but increasing numbers of articles in publications like Military Times and Army Times are warning that politics and Wokeness are seriously degrading our military. The current recruiting crisis is an obvious result and the only solutions being offered are recruiting gimmicks like ribbons, and drastically lowering standards.

In an article entitled "Politicization contributing to Americans' low trust in the military," Military Times Pentagon bureau chief Meghann Myers writes that 62% of the respondents to the 2021 Reagan National Defense Survey believe the reason for decreased confidence in the U.S. military is because of "Military Leadership Becoming Overly Politicized."¹

Elizabeth Warren's naming commission is a perfect example of politicization and Wokeness hurting our military. Its mandate, to change or destroy all DOD assets that pay tribute to Southern valor, includes the barbaric act of demolishing the 109 year old, internationally acclaimed Confederate monument to the reconciliation of North and South in Arlington National Cemetery.

That monument was sculpted in Rome, Italy and is the grave marker for its Jewish creator, Moses Jacob Ezekiel, who was a VMI Confederate soldier and is buried, with two other Confederate soldiers and one Confederate sailor, around its base.

There are over 500 other graves of Confederate military personnel with some family arranged beautifully as befitting our nation's most sacred burial ground, in concentric circles emanating out from the monument.

The monument itself was the brainchild of Union soldier and president, William McKinley, after Southerners fought alongside Northerners in the Spanish American war.

McKinley said:

. . . every soldier's grave made during our unfortunate civil war is a tribute to American valor . . . And the time has now come . . . when in the spirit of fraternity we should share in the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers . . . The cordial feeling now happily existing between the North and South prompts this gracious act and if it needed further justification it is found in the gallant loyalty to the Union and the flag so conspicuously shown in this year just passed by the sons and grandsons of those heroic dead.

President William Howard Taft gave a rousing speech at the UDC ceremony the evening the cornerstone was laid.

President Theodore Roosevelt sent the first floral arrangement "beginning a tradition continued by nearly every U.S. president" including Barack Obama.

President Woodrow Wilson gave the dedication address June 4, 1914, and veterans, North and South, spoke lovingly about the reconciliation of our country.

But the political naming commission has slated this magnificent work of art for demolition and Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, has signed off on it.

This kind of extreme divisiveness is causing permanent damage to our military and country.

How can it not?

Over 44% of the United States military is recruited in the South, where military service is revered.²

Oceans of Southern blood have been spilled for our great country but thanks to Elizabeth Warren and Republicans led by Jim Inhofe on the Senate Armed Services Committee when they had control, Southerners must now accept insult and disrespect to their ancestors and the South, or they are persona non grata in the U.S. military.

It is a sick, unhealthy situation because Southerners such as Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Nathan Bedford Forrest and Raphael Semmes are among the greatest, most honorable warriors in the history of the world yet are also persona non grata in the Woke military. West Point removing its many tributes to Robert E. Lee makes clear its commitment to Wokeness, not military values. The naming commission's recommendations to remove Lee from West Point degrade and dishonor West Point.

This is unprecedented divisiveness that has no benefit whatsoever except to allow a characterless, ignorant individual like Elizabeth Warren to pretend she has "superior" virtue.

Mike Pompeo, former secretary of state under President Trump, talks about Woke policies in the military that force service personnel to accept that America is horribly racist, but the same applies to Southerners who now go from revering military service because their ancestors were great American warriors, to being forced to accept the lie that their ancestors were vile traitors:

'How can we ask young men and women who have decided to risk their lives for America, even die for America, to affirm that our country is inherently racist?' . . . 'How can we ask them to view their brothers and sisters in arms through the narrow prisms of race or gender? The clear and obvious answer is that we cannot - not without putting their lives at risk on the battlefield. A woke military is a weak military.'³

Pompeo also said in a Fox New article last summer:

Under the Biden administration, warfighting doctrines are being replaced - even at the training level - with doctrines of diversity, equity and inclusion.⁴

In fairness to the naming commission, it came about because of Warren's legislation. It did not organically arise.

But the naming commission is 100% Woke and political. Its standards of history are not scholarly, peer-reviewed, openly debated history. They are Presentist and based on the goofy leftist cultural standards of today. That is not how you understand the truths of history. That is how you insert filthy politics into history and the military, and use the military for leftist political advantage.

There is not a single thing in the naming commission's final report to Congress that can not be challenged and easily refuted. The federal government has no business falsifying history for the political advantage of the party in power. Our military should be apolitical as it was when we won two World Wars and were the greatest colorblind meritocracy in history.

The $100 million dollars it will cost to implement the naming commission's recommendations are a MASSIVE waste of money.

For example, they want to change the name of the USNS Maury, an oceanographic survey ship, because Matthew Fontaine Maury fought for the South after serving 36 years in the U.S. Navy. Like Robert E. Lee, Maury wasn't going to fight against Virginia and his own family.

Matthew F. Maury was a brilliant man known today as the "Father of Modern Oceanography" and also the "Scientist of the Seas." He had a large body of work and "revolutionized our understanding of oceanography, meteorology, and marine navigation."⁵

How can you have a better name for an oceanographic survey ship than one named after the Father of Modern Oceanography? No name can be better than the current USNS Maury.⁶

Same with the USS Chancellorsville, named after a brilliant Confederate victory when Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia with 60,298 men defeated Joseph Hooker and the Army of the Potomac with 133,868. Chancellorsville represents a bold military commander dividing his army at times and maneuvering against enormous odds to win during fierce fighting from April 30 to May 6, 1863.

What better name for a great ship than the USS Chancellorsville!

As President McKinley said, all of this is a tribute to American valor just like all the graves from our "unfortunate civil war" symbolize American valor. Both sides had great respect for each other at the end of the war. It is only small people like Elizabeth Warren who use the honor and blood of better people for her own selfish political advantage.

Veterans are disgusted with this Wokeness, and Congress better start listening.

Many veterans will no longer encourage anybody, much less sons and daughters, to join the military:

When Marine Corps Reserve Col. Matthew F. Amidon, director of veterans and military families at the George W. Bush Institute, wrote a commentary urging veterans to help during the recruiting crisis by recommending military service to their kids and other young people, Military Times was inundated with hundreds of emails from veterans saying they would do no such thing.
Their reasons varied, but most said wokeness is to blame. They accused the military of becoming so "political," or such a "social experiment," that even proud veterans wouldn't recommend service.
'I'll be blunt. I wouldn't encourage anyone to join today's armed forces and I discouraged both of my sons from considering serving,' wrote Peter Demas, who described himself as a third-generation veteran. 'America's military leaders have sold out the Services for their own advancement and reflect all the poorest qualities of civilian 'leadership' from whom they accepted thirty pieces of silver; instead of being the nation's repository of integrity and moral courage, they have become more political than the political animals they grovel before.'⁷

The very fabric of our nation and military is being torn apart by this racist Woke garbage such as the falsification of Southern history by a political naming commission using Presentist standards, which are a total fraud.

Elizabeth Warren knows nothing about Southern history.

She is like those legions of liberals in academia who look down on the military and think Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and all the others who are willing to die for our country, are not as good as they are, and certainly not as smart.

'With a woke military, whose most senior officer is concerned about 'white rage,' searching for a tattle tale process to discover and discharge white 'extremists,' blaming it on toxic masculinity, discharging real warriors for not getting vaccinated, having a two-day standdown to discuss white extremism, the promotion and expansion of women in combat, lowering physical fitness standards to accommodate naturally weaker women, recruiting with social justice and diversity ads, stating we need more female and minority pilots, promotions based on the color of one's skin or genitalia, lowering recruiting standards, blaming the military for 247 years of institutional racism, is not the military I was in for 26 years,' wrote Dale Papworth, who said he was a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.⁸

Myers writes: "Reader feedback suggests that a military and veteran population that has traditionally leaned conservative is no longer supportive of an institution they find unrecognizable."

'My 19-year-old has expressed in no uncertain terms that he does not want to serve in the U.S. military in any capacity,' wrote Adam, who asked to be identified by his first name only. 'The politicization of our [government] institutions is creeping into the services now, and that is also having an effect. They may as well put out a sign that conservative or right of center Americans are not welcome. They just keep making it worse with their messaging. Boys want to be challenged and go on adventures, not be schooled on pronouns or the sins of their skin color. Girls want to beat boys and prove themselves.'⁹

The Washington Times reports that "50% of Americans cite 'woke practices' as a key reason for their decreased confidence in the military."¹⁰ Woke policies such as "the teaching of critical race theory, a disproportionate focus on diversity and inclusivity training, gender identity, even the Pentagon's recent fight to demand mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for all those in the ranks" are huge problems.¹¹

Republicans cited:

a host of examples, ranging from the teaching of critical race theory at some military institutions to last spring's military-wide "stand-down" during which all service members were ordered to spend a day discussing hateful ideologies, bigotry, discrimination and related issues.

Sen. Rick Scott, Republican from Florida, said "our military has become the woke military, not the lethal military." Scott is a Navy veteran.¹²

Austin's campaign to root out extremism undoubtedly caused more harm than good.

It "turned up just a minuscule number of cases, and critics say the focus on social issues takes away from the overriding priority of molding an effective fighting force to defend the country."¹³

Also:

Beyond the specifics of critical race theory, or American taxpayers paying for gender-reassignment surgeries for service members, critics say the Biden administration has implemented a top-down agenda that emphasizes diversity over virtually everything else, including lethality.¹⁴

In another Military Times article, "Is the military too 'woke' to recruit?", more disgust:

One possibility that is increasingly resonating with veterans is that the military is too "woke." Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., for example, is among a group of Republican senators who have repeatedly blamed recruiting problems on the Biden administration for trying to build a "woke Army."¹⁵

Thomas Spoehr, director of the Center for National Defense at The Heritage Foundation, writes that wokeness is the "chief worry of grizzled American veterans today."¹⁶

'The largest threat they see by far to our current military is the weakening of its fabric by radical progressive (or 'woke') policies being imposed, not by a rising generation of slackers, but by the very leaders charged with ensuring their readiness,' he wrote. 'Wokeness in the military is being imposed by elected and appointed leaders in the White House, Congress, and the Pentagon who have little understanding of the purpose, character, traditions, and requirements of the institution they are trying to change.'

The Military Times article quotes Spoehr:

'Is anyone surprised that potential recruits - many of whom come from rural or poor areas of the country - don't want to spend their time being lectured about white privilege?'¹⁷

Myers writes:

In reality, service members spend hundreds of hours a year on mandatory training, covering everything from operational safety to financial responsibility and suicide and sexual assault prevention, with a tiny fraction of that focusing on diversity, equity and inclusion education.
But what seems to incense people is that the issue of racial disparity is discussed at all, not that it's truly cutting into time spent on training.¹⁸ (bold emphasis added)

Austin's standdown impugning the honor of military personnel as he looks for extremism that does not exist proves his unfitness to lead. Anybody who would sign off on destroying a 109 year old monument surrounded by 500 graves in Arlington National Cemetery - a monument symbolizing the reunification of the United States of America - is dangerously out of touch.

Myers goes on:

'Instead of training and preparing for combat, today's military is too busy worrying about teaching proper pronouns, how to incorporate men who think they're women and women who think they're men into the barracks and showers,' wrote Ron Eslick, describing himself as a 1970s-era Navy submariner. [Joint Chiefs Chairman] General Milley and Sec Def Austin are a disgrace to the uniform I once wore. They are nothing less than lap dogs to the current administration. What a shame that our country has now become a second rate threat in today's world.'¹⁹

Republicans better step up because Biden, Warren and their ilk are tearing apart the very fabric of our country and now our military. No wonder we are so divided.

We are a great country with equal opportunity for all. That's where the emphasis should always be, on opportunity and merit, not special privileges for democrat voters.

The only thing that can work in a multicultural democracy is an unwavering colorblind standard based on merit, a colorblind meritocracy, and equal opportunity for all.

Republicans should defund all of the divisive, extremist recommendations of the naming commission immediately. They don't have to state that they are supporting the Confederacy. All they have to say is that they are disgusted by the idea of destroying historic monuments in Arlington National Cemetery for idiotic woke reasons, and wasting $100 million dollars we don't have changing street names and patches since we are in a multi-trillion-dollar budget deficit.

An article in The Federalist "Reduce Federal Spending by Cutting Back Anywhere and Everywhere: A Guide for Bladder Shy, Financially Illiterate Republicans" states:

the only way to get started on reducing spending, let alone balancing the budget, is to get started on reducing spending. Start somewhere. Anywhere. Take Sen. Rand Paul's actual government waste audit and spin the wheel. Wherever the arrow lands, whether it's the nearly $2 billion for 'maintaining 77,000 empty Federal buildings,' or the $200,000 for the Pentagon's 'Starbucks espresso machines,' get a 10 percent cut. Or 5 percent. Anything.²⁰

I have a better idea.

Start cutting wasteful spending with the $100 million dollars it will take to implement the worthless Woke recommendations of the naming commission.

You will improve military recruiting at the same time and help stop the ruination of our military.

Southerners, inspired by the unmatched valor of their Confederate ancestors when outnumbered four to one and outgunned 200 to one, will make up the recruiting shortfall and give you better troops in the process, like Audie Murphy, Alvin York and so many others in our country's history.

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If you are descended from any of the Confederate heroes buried in Arlington National Cemetery, please contact us.

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE to our Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Litigation Defense Fund so we can make sure that Woke ignorance DIES at Arlington National Cemetery.]

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Links to Important Resources

Hot off the press! Here is a link to the new 385 page PDF from Defend Arlington that flips pages as you read. It contains all the great scholarly white papers gathered up by Defend Arlington to make sure that Woke ignorance DIES at Arlington National Cemetery.

Defend Arlington's 385 Page Book of White Papers

Here is a link to Defend Arlington's donation page that states:

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Here is a link to an informative nine minute video, "The Arlington Confederate Monument," produced by the Abbeville Institute.

The Arlington Confederate Monument

Here is a link to the outstanding scholarly PDF white papers written for Defend Arlington. You can download them all with one click. Please share them far and wide, especially the letter from Defend Arlington's attorney, Karen C. Bennett, to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

PDF White Papers from Defend Arlington

Here is link to an excellent video refuting point by point a historically false Prager University video by Ty Seidule, who is on the naming commission. This one is produced by Bode Lang and entitled "The Civil War Was Not for Slavery."

Click Here for Bode Lang's excellent video,

Here is a link to an excellent video of a Georgia lady calling out Elizabeth Warren and her Massachusetts hypocrisy.

Click Here for Georgia Lady Teaching Elizabeth Warren a Lesson

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¹ Meghann Myers, "Politicization contributing to Americans' low trust in the military," Military Times, December 1, 2022, https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/12/01/politicization-contributing-to-americans-low-trust-in-the-military/, accessed 12-2-22.

² Sean Braswell, "Why the U.S. Military Is So Southern," Nov. 20, 2016, https://www.ozy.com/news-and-politics/why-the-u-s-military-is-so-southern/72100/, accessed 1-30-23; "Who's Joining the Military: Myth vs. Fact," 2023, https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/whos-joining-military-myth-vs-fact.html, accessed 1-29-23.

³ Mike Pompeo in Meghann Myers, "Is the military too 'woke' to recruit?", October 13, 2022, https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/10/13/is-the-military-too-woke-to-recruit/, accessed 1-24-23.

⁴ Quoted from the Reagan Institute Defense Survey in Ben Wolfgang article, "The war over 'woke': Republicans gear up to take aim at controversial Pentagon social policies, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/dec/27/war-over-woke-republicans-gear-take-aim-controvers, accessed 12-27-22.

⁵ Tim St. Onge, "Scientist of the Seas: The Legacy of Matthew Fontaine Maury," July 25, 2018, https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2018/07/scientist-of-the-seas-the-legacy-of-matthew-fontaine-maury/, accessed 1-30-23.

⁶ Matthew Maury did not own slaves or believe in slavery. Around 93% of white Southerners did not own slaves. Over 70% of Southern families did not own slaves. Blacks owned slaves too. One of the largest slaveowners in South Carolina was the famous cotton gin maker, William Ellison, a black man in Sumter County who owned over 60 slaves.

⁷ Meghann Myers, "Is the military too 'woke' to recruit?", October 13, 2022, https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/10/13/is-the-military-too-woke-to-recruit/, accessed 1-24-23.

⁸ Ibid.

⁹ Ibid.

¹⁰ Quoted from the Reagan Institute Defense Survey in Ben Wolfgang article, "The war over 'woke': Republicans gear up to take aim at controversial Pentagon social policies, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/dec/27/war-over-woke-republicans-gear-take-aim-controvers, accessed 12-27-22.

¹¹ Ibid.

¹² Ibid.

¹³ Ibid.

¹⁴ Ibid.

¹⁵ Meghann Myers, "Is the military too 'woke' to recruit?", October 13, 2022, https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/10/13/is-the-military-too-woke-to-recruit/, accessed 1-24-23.

¹⁶ Ibid.

¹⁷ Meghann Myers, "Is the military too 'woke' to recruit?", October 13, 2022, https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/10/13/is-the-military-too-woke-to-recruit/, accessed 1-24-23.

¹⁸ Ibid.

¹⁹ Ibid.

²⁰ The Federalist, Eddie Scarry, January 25, 2023, "Reduce Federal Spending by Cutting Back Anywhere and Everywhere: A Guide for Bladder Shy, Financially Illiterate Republicans" states", https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/25/reduce-federal-spending-by-cutting-back-anywhere-and-everywhere-a-guide-for-bladder-shy-financially-illiterate-republicans, accessed 1-26-23.

List of the 518 Confederate Burials in Arlington National Cemetery–Concentric circles of graves extend out from the magnificent Confederate Monument–If any of these folks are your ancestors, please contact us IMMEDIATELY

Posted on January 18, 2023January 20, 2023 by Gene Kizer, Jr. | 2 Comments

List of the 518 Confederate Burials
in Arlington National Cemetery

Concentric circles of graves extend out
from the magnificent Confederate Monument

If any of these folks are your ancestors,
please contact us IMMEDIATELY

List includes all the burials in ANC Section 16,
mostly men, some women

Most have their home state listed; some also have unit
name, number, letter or whether cavalry, infantry
or artillery

[Publisher's Note, by Gene Kizer, Jr. - The names, below, are a few of the 375,000 Confederate soldiers about whom Union soldier and president of the United States, William McKinley, said:

. . . every soldier's grave made during our unfortunate civil war is a tribute to American valor . . . And the time has now come . . . when in the spirit of fraternity we should share in the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers . . . The cordial feeling now happily existing between the North and South prompts this gracious act and if it needed further justification it is found in the gallant loyalty to the Union and the flag so conspicuously shown in this year just passed by the sons and grandsons of those heroic dead.

It was President McKinley's idea to construct the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery because the brave always honor the brave.

But the political naming commission and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin have slated the 109 year old Confederate Memorial for demolition.

It appears Austin and company are breaking federal rules and regulations in their haste to destroy the monument before serious public disgust sets in. Every veteran in America should be outraged because this is exactly what could happen to their memory in the future by politicians just as characterless as Elizabeth Warren. Remember what liberals did to our Vietnam veterans after the Vietnam War. Our military should always be above filthy politics.

You don't have to love the South or the Confederacy to know that destroying a 109 year old monument in our nation's most sacred burial ground as symbolic as the Confederate Memorial, after a war in which 750,000 died and over a million were maimed, is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG and is the most dishonorable thing fake Indian Elizabeth Warren has ever done.

Perhaps a hundred million Americans alive today are descended from Confederate soldiers and the women and families who supported the South's great war for independence.

Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America noted that race relations were better in the South than anywhere in the country despite slavery. He said they were worst in New England.

During the antebellum era, five Northern states had laws forbidding blacks from even visiting for more than a few days much less living there including Lincoln's Illinois.

New England had brought all the slaves here chained to decks in the bowels of their stinking hot slave ships where there was no ventilation, suffering for months in urine, feces, vomit and death so Elizabeth Warren's New Englanders could make money.

Historian Bernard Bailyn stated that New England's economic success was unquestionably due to the slave trade.

W. E. B. Du Bois in his famous book The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870, states that Boston and New York were still the largest slave trading ports on the planet in 1862, a year into the War Between the States and 54 years after the slave trade was outlawed by the U.S. Constitution.

Perhaps Elizabeth Warren and the naming commission should begin demolishing New England monuments and changing the name of Faneuil Hall in Boston because Peter Faneuil traded in black flesh, or Brown University because its founder was a slave trader who said there was no more crime in carrying off a cargo of slaves than a cargo of jackasses.

Six slave states fought for the Union the entire war and it took the 13th Amendment in December, 1865, to fully end slavery in the Union slave states.

Southerners would have ended slavery in a much better way than a war that killed 750,000 men and maimed over a million. We lost 400,000 in World War II. It was in the bi-racial South's best interest to end slavery with goodwill and opportunity for all.

Maybe the better question is why didn't the federal government suggest buying freedom for all the slaves in the South out of the federal treasury if they were so worried about slavery? Because Yankees were not worried enough to spend their hard-earned sweatshop money to free the slaves in the South who would then go North and be job competition. Besides, the six slave states that fought for the North would have seceded immediately over federal overreach and fought for the South just as Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas did. Those four Southern states at first rejected secession and only seceded when Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to invade the South.

Also, and importantly, the Northern economy would have collapsed because it was based mostly on manufacturing for the South and shipping Southern cotton around the world. The North needed the South but the South did not need the North.

Congress can rectify its error and put an end to Elizabeth Warren's crime against art and history by defunding ALL of the recommendations of the Woke naming commission, which will cost perhaps a hundred million dollars before its all over. We are in a huge budget deficit and don't have a hundred million dollars laying around to throw away on changing things that have a glorious record of victory such as Fort Benning and Fort Bragg and all the others. It is idiotic to be spending money changing street names on military bases and removing monuments and changing uniform patches and such.

We are also in a military recruiting crisis and it is about as stupid as you can get to insult the South, from where 44% of the United States military is recruited.

Here is a quote from last week's blog article entitled "WE WILL SAVE the Magnificent Arlington Confederate Memorial--Woke Ignorance DIES at Arlington":

The naming commission is so inept it does not even mention the reconciliation theme and symbolism of the Confederate Memorial though Arlington National Cemetery itself, does. ANC's own description in its National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for the Historic District received by the National Park Service February 24, 2014 states over and over that the Confederate Memorial symbolizes the reconciliation and reunification of our great country after our country's bloodiest war.¹
How could the naming commission ignore that?
The Confederate Memorial was conceived by Union soldier and President William McKinley after enthusiastic Southern participation in the Spanish-American War. President William Howard Taft spoke at the UDC ceremony the evening the cornerstone was laid giving an inspiring well-received speech. President Woodrow Wilson spoke at the dedication June 4, 1914 as did Union and Confederate Veterans. Remember, these were the days of the 50th and 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and the famous handshakes across the wall by the old Union and Confederate gentlemen.
How could the naming commission not care about all that?
The Confederate Memorial is about reconciliation therefore it is not in the Woke naming commission's remit. The Confederate Memorial does not commemorate the Confederacy. It commemorates the reunification of the United States of America after a bloody war. See my white paper "The Reconciliation of North and South After the War Between the States as Symbolized by the Confederate Memorial 'New South' in Arlington National Cemetery" on Defend Arlington's website, 28 pages on the theme of reconciliation.
The 109 year old Confederate Memorial was created in the city of Rome, Italy by internationally acclaimed Jewish sculptor Moses Ezekiel but the naming commission wants to tear it apart in the cheapest way possible and leave a mangled shaft sticking up in Arlington National Cemetery.
The white paper by Ernest E. Blevins, who is the foremost national authority on Union and Confederate monuments, is entitled: "Headstone of the Confederate States: Moses Ezekiel's Arlington Confederate Monument, Symbolism, Meaning, National Register Eligibility, and Potential Adverse Effects to Alternations or Removal." It is 49 pages, detailed, documented and irrefutable.
Blevins discusses the "monument symbology" that "depicts the South's mourning and the war's losses" and he includes a comment from Michael Robert Patterson:
"But no sculptor, as far as known, has ever, in any one memorial told as much history as has Ezekiel in his monument at Arlington; and every human figure in it, as well as every symbol, is in and of itself a work of art.²"
That comment again points out the crime against history and art committed by the Woke naming commission in its desire to destroy the monument as cheaply as possible and leave a mangled shaft in its place in Arlington National Cemetery surrounded by 500 graves of Southern soldiers in concentric circles.

If you are descended from any of the Confederate heroes buried in Arlington National Cemetery, please contact us.

There is more information in the burial database but for conciseness, here are the names, ranks, death dates and states for most of the burials. I will soon have the full database available to download as a .cvs or .xlsx or .html file.

There are several valuable links after the burial list.

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE to our Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Litigation Defense Fund so we can make sure that Woke ignorance DIES at Arlington National Cemetery.]

LAST NAME	FIRST NAME	Rank	DEATH DATE	UNIT
ABNEY	JOHN			GA
AKERS	ALBERT J	CAPT	01/14/1914	TENN
AMISS	FRANCES		09/27/1949	VA
AMISS	GEORGE W		08/14/1913	VA
AMOS	W D		09/02/1865	GA
ANDERSON	E W		2/9/1915
ANDERSON	JOHN	SGT	05/29/1864	GA
ANGELO	FRANCIS M		10/15/1928	VA
ANGELO	SARAH V		05/27/1937	VA
ARMSWORTHY	JOHN W		01/15/1864	NC
ASHBY	JOHN J		11/03/1864	CIVILIAN
ASHTON	CHARLES H		03/26/1935	VA
ASHTON	IDA B		12/19/1940	VA
AUTRY	FRANCIS M		07/17/1864	GA
AYLOR	HENRY L		11/4/1922	VA
AYRES	WILLIAM S		09/15/1932	VA
BAILEY	JOSEPH B		06/13/1926	MD
BAILEY	RICE W	2D LIEUT	8/4/1915	VA
BAILEY	SUSAN A	2D LIEUT		VA
BALLOWE	J D		06/20/1865
BARBEE	ROBERT S	SGT	4/1/1918	VA
BARBER	H A		05/25/1862	SC
BARHAM	BENJAMIN F		11/18/1919	VA
BARKLEY	JOHN W		04/16/1865	ALA
BARNES	JACOB		02/11/1864	NC
BARNETT	HARVEY		05/26/1864	MISS
BASS	MARCELLUS C		12/7/1918	VA
BATES	NATHANIEL S		09/10/1864	GA
BAYLESS	A J	SGT	04/29/1865	TENN
BEACHMAN	ROBERT		09/17/1867
BEAL	WILLIAM M		01/19/1864	NC
BEALL	CHATTIE A		10/7/1927	MISS
BEALL	FRED		01/30/1929	MISS
BEAVER	TOBIAS		03/27/1864	NC
BECK	JAMES		05/27/1862	ARTY
BEDINGFIELD	JOHN Y	CAPT	04/05/1864	GA
BENNETT	JAMES A	SGT	05/20/1864	GA
BERNARD	W P		07/23/1864	GA
BERRY	D W		11/11/1863	NC
BETHUNE	ANDREW J		10/22/1863	NC
BETHUNE	NARCISSA G	SGT	6/12/1929	GA
BIBB	ROBERT		04/07/1864	VA
BOOTH	JAMES		11/03/1863	MISS
BORWN or BROWN	J A	2 LIUET	01/27/1929	22 VA INF
BOSTIAN	A A	CORP	11/14/1863	NC
BOUNDS	J D		04/20/1864	NC
BOYCE	S J	SGT	11/11/1863	NC
BOYLE	PATRICK		09/14/1864	GA
BRAND	WARREN H			GA
BROWER	LEON		08/24/1864	ALA
BROWN	BENJAMIN	CAPT	05/30/1920	VA
BROWN	FRANCES E		2/5/1917	VA
BROWN	GEORGE W	CAPT	03/22/1927	VA
BROWN	JOHN		01/22/1862
BROWN	MERIDA		04/27/1865	GA
BROWN	MINNIE R	2 LIUET	4/12/1942	22 VA INF
BROWN	SARAH P	CAPT	2/11/1923	VA
BROWN	WILLIAM		06/03/1862	NC
BROWN	WILLIAM H		5/4/1913	VA
BROWN	WILLIAM L		07/17/1864	GA
BROXTON	HOMER			GA
BRYANT	NEEDHAM B		05/27/1862	MISS
BURDICK	B B		08/21/1865	GA
BURKE	MARY E		06/28/1922	43 BN VA CAV
BURKE	THOMAS T		10/26/1916	43 BN VA CAV
BURNS	JOHN		06/16/1862	NC
BURROWS	FRANCIS M	MUS	8/10/1922	VA
BUTLER	JOHN F		06/28/1865	GA
BYASSEE	THOMAS W			VA INF
CAIN	WILLIAM B		06/12/1862	ALA
CALLAGHAN	JOHN T		02/21/1918	VA
CANNON	C M			GA
CANNON	H W		09/02/1862	GA
CANNON	J C			ALA
CAPPS	EDWARD W	CAPT	02/23/1864	VA
CARLTON	T R		07/14/1862	NC
CARROLL	D L		05/14/1863	ALA
CHEW	MARGARET H	M CHEW	07/19/1940	MISS
CHEW	MONROE G	M CHEW		MISS
CHISELDINE	WILLIAM C			MD
CHISM	J R		06/21/1862	VA
CHRISTOPHER	T C		05/24/1862	SG
CLAGETT	EDWARD L	SGT	4/10/1930	MD
CLEMENTS	FRANCIS J		8/2/1923	MD
CLEMENTS	JEANNETTE F		03/17/1921	MD
COLE	WILLIAM H		05/24/1862	VA
COLEMAN	DANIEL G		05/26/1863	NC
COLEMAN	E R			MISS
COLQUITT	W H		01/08/1863	GA
CONAGHAN	JAMES		06/15/1864	GA
CONLEY	DAN		03/25/1863
CONNER	ALFRED		05/12/1844
COOK	ELIAS M	LIEUT	05/25/1862	ALA
COOK	ENOCH		11/14/1910	VA
COOPER	ANDREW J			VA
CORDER	ALEXANDER		12/25/1862	VA
COWAN	THOMAS	LT	10/05/1862	NC
COX	J W		12/28/1863	NC
CRAFT	N L		01/11/1864	NC
CRANDALL	LEE	COLONEL	09/13/1926	47 ARK CAV
CRANFORD	ELIZABETH	SGT	1/8/1926	GA
CRANFORD	HORACE L	SEPG	12/21/1918	GA
CRAWFORD	WILLIAM			GA
CRONAN	JERRY		06/02/1864	GA
CRONE	H W			VA
CROSS	CHARLES N		02/19/1908
CROUCH	CHARLES C		09/29/1919	MO
CROUCH	JENNIE P		7/7/1916	MO
CURRY	JOHN A		08/11/1864	GA
DAVIDSON	MARTHA E		6/2/1939	MD
DAVIDSON	WILLIAM		11/7/1924	MD
DAVIS	JOSHUA		01/23/1915	ARTY
DAVIS	WELDON E	CAPTAIN	11/22/1863	30 NC IN
DAWSON	ROBERTA C		02/23/1935	VA
DAYMOND	GEORGE
DE SHIELDS	GEORGE D	SGT	11/27/1918
DEAN	J F		01/02/1864	NV
DEARING	WILLIAM R
DELEON	PERRY M		09/17/1922	ASST
DONOHOO	JAMES		05/26/1862	ALA
DRAKE	GERSHAM		6/12/1921	VA
DREW	JOHN	CAPT	07/31/1917	VA
DUFFEY	JEFFERSON W		10/11/1929	VA
DUFFEY	NANNIE T		07/29/1941	VA
DUNNINGTON	CHARLES A		02/28/1921	VA
DYESS	WILLIAM H	CORP	12/28/1864	GA
EARLEY	ALLEN H		04/11/1865	GA
EDMONSTON	GABRIEL		05/16/1918	41 VA INF
EDMONSTON	ROBERTA	b. 2-12-1871	03/18/1954	41 VA INF
ELAM	HENRY T		05/29/1862	VA
ELLEN	JAMES B	SGT	12/09/1863	NC
EMBREY	CHARLES O		2/12/1925	VA
EMBRY	SAMANTHA E		06/24/1922	VA
EMMART	ESTHER N		05/13/1935
EMORY	JAMES		11/16/1867
EPPS	J L		04/28/1865
ESTERS	WILLIAM		06/18/1862	SC
ESTES	DAVID N	2LT	5/12/1925	TENN
ESTES	ELDRA J	2LT	3/1/1939
EVANS	FRANK D		1/1/1918	VA
EVANS	JANE		7/6/1937	VA
EZEKIEL	MOSES J		03/27/1917
FAIRFAX	HENRY M		02/14/1928	VA
FARMER	NOAH		05/25/1862	VA
FARRELL	THOMAS W	CAPT	09/28/1864	MISS
FEAST	LOUDON	CO C	6/11/1912	MD INF
FEAST	MARY		01/18/1934	MD INF
FERNEYHOUGH	JENNIE A		12/4/1943	VA
FERRELL	EPHRIAM		10/8/1928
FERRELL	MARY E		05/20/1931	VA
FIELD	ELIJAH K		05/18/1865	GA
FIELD	GEORGE W		8/5/1918	VA
FINCH	JOHN		11/26/1863	NC
FINDLEY	THOMAS		9/6/1914	VA
FINNEY	MARY E		07/20/1922	VA
FINNEY	THOMAS		02/26/1915	VA
FINNEY	MARY E		07/20/1922	VA
FINNEY	THOMAS		02/26/1915	VA
FLANNERY	PHIL H		05/23/1862	ALA
FOLLIN	JOHN M			4TH VA CAV
FONES	HENRY R		01/27/1863	VA
FOREMAN	JAMES		04/01/1865	ALA
FURR	FRANK N		05/29/1862	ALA
GARRISON	ANN E	SGT	12/13/1922	VA
GENRARD	JOSEPH		06/28/1865	GA
GEUSS	L G		09/26/1863	MISS
GLEASE	LEWIS
GOLDSMITH	THEODOCIA H		10/19/1932	ASST SURG
GOLDSMITH	WILLIAM T		2/5/1918	ASST SURG
GOODENER	JOHN		06/08/1862	VA
GRADY	POWELL C	CAPT	4/12/1922
GRADY	SUSAN A	CAPT	12/17/1928	ASST
GRAVES	I T			GA
GRAY	W J
GRAYSON	S M		2/1/1919	MD
GREEN	ROBERT R		9/3/1920	VA
GREENE	J C		11/17/1867	GA
GRIGSBY	LOVINA	SGT	11/4/1921	VA
GRIGSBY	W S	SGT	06/28/1932	VA
GROVER	ALBERT S		02/24/1913	VA
GUNNELL	HENRY L	2LT	04/19/1917	VA
GUSSTON	W H			NC
HAGANS	JOSIAH H			GA
HALL	G W		09/19/1867	GA
HARDY	JAMES T	SGT	04/05/1865	GA
HARRIS	JOHN		09/12/1862	NC
HARRIS	REUBEN T		07/17/1864	ALA
HARROVER	HIRAM C	IST SGT	01/14/1912	VA
HARROVER	ROBERT M		06/26/1917	VA
HASKINS	ELIZABETH V	MUS	11/12/1929	VA
HASKINS	JOHN R	MUS	8/1/1928	VA
HAWKINS	MARCUS		11/19/1923	VA
HAWLEY	GEORGE W		7/11/1919	TEX
HEAVENER	W A
HEISTON	THORNTON B	CAPT	3/7/1916
HENDERSON	ANDREW		03/16/1930	SC SS
HENNESSEY	D		08/27/1862	ALA
HEROD	WILLIAM		04/14/1865	ALA
HERRELL	HENRY A		07/22/1913	VA
HICKEY	FANNIE B	CAPT	01/14/1933	6 MO INF
HICKEY	JOHN M	CAPT	1/10/1927	6 MO INF
HICKMAN	BENJAMIN H		02/08/1862	GA
HICKMAN	THOMAS H		08/08/1864	GA
HILL	SAMUEL		12/20/1863	NC
HODGKINS	W		06/07/1862	VA
HOGAN	LAFAYETTE		01/01/1863	TENN
HOLDER	WILLIAM		05/31/1862	VA
HOLMES	GEORGE J		06/08/1864	GA
HOLT	G L		11/09/1893
HOWARD	HARMAN		07/23/1864	ALA
HOWELL	FRANCIS A		02/15/1919	VA
HUBBARD	GEORGE W		06/16/1862	VA
HUBBARD	JOHN D		01/22/1863	FLA
HUDDLESON	JOHN	CAPT	3/11/1922	VA
HUDDLESON	MARY E	CAPT	01/16/1922	VA
HUDSON	T H		06/06/1864	VA
HUFFMAN	JAMES	b. 1-31-1840	04/14/1922	VA
HUGHES	BIRTIE K		2/11/1921	VA LT ARTY
HUGHES	RYLAND B		12/6/1916	VA LT ARTY
HUGHES	SAMUEL		07/08/1865	VA
HUNGERFORD	THOMAS W		3/9/1923	GA
HUNTER	ALEXANDER		06/30/1914	VA
HUNTER	FILAH A		8/1/1915	VA
HUTCHINSON	PHILIP AUGUSTUS		2/11/1925	VA
HUTCHINSON	SUSIE L		11/5/1928	VA
IMBODEN	ELIZABETH S	SCT MAJ	11/11/1919	CAV
IMBODEN	JAMES A	SCT MAJ	2/4/1928	CAV
INKFIELD	WILLIAM		11/15/1867
JACKSON	JOHN A			GA
JACKSON	WYATT		07/06/1862	FLA
JARVIS	ROBERTA E		5/8/1931	VA
JARVIS	WILLIAM		5/4/1916	VA
JENKINS	HORATIO N	CAPT	03/29/1915	LA
JENKINS	SARAH	CAPT	10/24/1927	LA
JENKINS	W N			MISS
JENKINS	WILLIAM E		12/31/1863	SC
JESSUP	S			GA
JOHNSON	GEORGE		05/21/1863	MISS
JOHNSON	OLIVER P		10/13/1908	VA
JOHNSON	RICHARD		12/16/1924	VA
ARMES	J T			SC
JOHNSON	ROBERT		08/25/1863	NC
JOHNSTON	FANNY		11/29/1922
JOHNSTON	GEORGE S		6/2/1928	MARINE CORPS
JONES	CHARLES M		05/19/1862	MISS
JONES	WILLIAM B		11/15/1865	GA
JORDAN	FLEMMING		08/02/1864
JORDAN	JOHN F	CAPT	08/29/1862	VA
JOYCE	G		08/07/1863	VA
KENNEMAN	WILLIS		06/05/1864	ALA
KEPHART	JOHN A		11/18/1929	VA
KEPHART	MARY E		2/4/1940	VA
KEY	JOHN F		4/10/1904	FORREST SCO
KEY	MINTER P		05/16/1916	TENN
KEYES	WILLIAM		01/24/1864
KIMPLE	FRITZ		08/31/1864	MISS
KING	A		02/02/1864	55 NC INF
KING	J F	LT COL	8/5/1915	VA
KING	THOMAS D	SGT	01/09/1864	LA
KING	WILLIAM G		05/19/1862	VA
KINKIN	G			NC
KIRBY	BENJAMIN F	SGT	01/12/1864	VA
KIRK	JOHN		05/21/1862	VA
KIRK	Rollin H		7/7/1922	SC
KIRKLAND	JOSHUA			GA
KNOWLES	B		01/03/1863	GA
KRICKLAND	JOSHUA			GA
L	T J		12/20/1862	CSA
LASH	ADA	SGT	09/17/1939	GRMIS PRTY
LASH	GEORGE W	SGT	10/11/1908	GRMIS PRTY
LAWHORNE	HENRY E			VA
LAY	THELDRED S		04/22/1865	GA
LEACOCK	JOHN
LEWIS	SAMUEL E	CAPT	11/17/1917	ASST SURG
LITTLEPAGE	BETTIE H		06/17/1937	VA
LITTLEPAGE	J C		10/27/1933	VA
LLOYD	G F		06/09/1864	GA
LOCKER	JACOB M		03/19/1934	VLA LT ARTY
LOONEY	T J		05/23/1862	LA
LOOP	GEORGE W		05/19/1862
LOOP	NOT CAPTURED		05/23/1862	VA
LOVELESS	WILLIAM
LOVING	PIERCE		04/24/1932	VA
LOWRANCE	C E		11/07/1863	57 NC INF
LYDDANE	JAMES		08/17/1913	VA
LYDDANE	MARY		10/15/1940	VA
LYNN	JAMES		11/22/1864	MISS
MANY	ROBERT P	CORP
MARCHANT	HENRY M	CAPT	02/24/1907
MARMADUKE	HENRY H	IST LT	11/15/1924	PRO NAVY
MARSHALL	JESSE E		06/12/1862	NC
MATHEWS	JOHN W		1/12/1909	VA
MCALLISTER	ALBERT L		02/13/1931	VA
MCALLISTER	ANDREW		07/03/1862	MISS
MCCLAIN	W L		05/16/1863	GA
MCCLENDON	JAMES			GA
MCCORD	JAMES	SGT	06/09/1864	GA
MCCULLEN	JAMES		06/25/1863
MCCUMMINGS	AMANDA		11/29/1920	MD
MCDONALL	J			ALA
MCELVEEN	ELIAS		08/16/1864	GA
MCFARLAND	ELLEN		11/15/1931	VA
MCFARLAND	HENRY D		1/10/1918	VA
MCGEE	THOMAS			ALA
MCLENDON	W J		06/15/1862	GA
MCMEEKIN	THOMAS		05/20/1864
MEAD	JOHN		05/13/1863	ALA
MEARS	WILLIAM S		10/8/1938	CO B 19 BN VA HVY ARTY
MEEKS	MARTHA A		10/7/1935	VA
MERCHANT	EMMA		6/3/1934	VA
MERCHANT	ISAAC N		10/19/1933	VA
MEREDITH	WINSTON	CORP		JONE'S PRTY
MEULIN	M		03/25/1863
MILLER	FRED W		10/7/1916	VA
MILLER	JOHN S		05/15/1921	VA
MILLER	MINNIE I		04/30/1936	VA
MILSTEAD	JOSEPH H		1/6/1924	MD
MOHLER	D J	PVT	1/6/1924	43RD VA CAV
MOHLER	LAURA	PVT	7/6/1925	43RD VA CAV
MONROE	G		01/14/1864
MOOMAW	SAMUEL		09/18/1863	VA
MOORE	JULIAN G	CAPT	02/28/1929	NC
MOORE	WILLIAM E		11/27/1920	NC
MORGAN	TIMOTHY F		04/06/1865	ALA
MORRIS	AARON		06/13/1864	GA
VIRGINIA	VIRGINIA		01/16/1916	VA
MOSS	PETER		05/30/1862	VA
MULLINS	JAMES R			MISS
MURPHY	JOHN A		06/20/1862	VA
MUSE	JOHN A		08/31/1843	VA CAV
MUSE	ROSE LEE	b. 4-27-1871	03/15/1934	VA CAV
MUSTAIN	ANDREW J		05/11/1863	21 VA INF
NAIL	JAMES		04/10/1864	GA
NAUCK	JOHN D		2/2/1925	VA
NAUCK	MARTHA A		04/22/1927	VA
NEILL	ISAAC		04/19/1865	MISS
NEWCOMB	JOHN J		04/16/1916	56 VA INF
NEWCOMB	MARGARET A		11/18/1925	56 VA INF
NICHOLS	WILLIAM H	CAPT	05/18/1925	TEX
NICKENS	JONATHAN		05/21/1862	NC
NICKS	W L		07/19/1864	ALA
NORTON	ROSA B		08/28/1939	MISS
NORWOOD	JAMES W			ALA
NOWELL	ARTHUR F	PVT	05/29/1864	31 GA INF
ORCHARD	FRANCES B	CROP	05/25/1920	SC
OVERCASH	H W		12/10/1863	NC
OWENS	ALFRED		7/12/1918	SC
PAGE	JOHN M		09/17/1864	GA
PAGE	WILLIAM		4/4/1914	CO B 2 MD INF
PALMER	HEZEKIAH S		10/10/1863	MISS
PANNILL	JOHN B		2/4/1929	VA
PARRY	ELLA H		5/2/1931	COD 53 VA INE
PARRY	RICHARD L	SGT	03/22/1914	CO D 53 VA INE
PARSONS	W G
PAXTON	JOSEPH M	CORP	08/16/1921	VA
PAYNE	AMOS P		5/1/1929	VA
PENDLETON	C M		02/19/1919	VA
PERKINS	W J		06/29/1864	CAV
PERRY	JESSE M		06/13/1864	GA
PERSONS	BENJAMIN F		07/03/1864	GA
PETTY	HENRY S		08/17/1918	VA
PETTY	JAMES T		3/5/1929	VA
PFAFF	ANDREW		12/29/1862	NC
PHILLIPS	WILLIAM A		07/25/1864	GA
PLUM	HENRY L		2/4/1921	ALA
PLUM	MARGARET		4/8/1937	ALA
POER	JOHN A		08/23/1863	GA
POLLARD	W O		05/19/1863	NC
POOL	MILES		06/05/1864	GA
POWELL	JAMES P		07/16/1911	3 CO A HOWITZWRS
POWELL	LAURA W		01/24/1953	3 CO A HOWITZERS
PRICE	IDA		11/18/1942	VA
PRICE	JAMES B		04/28/1920	VA
PRICE	LUCY A	I LIEUT	06/16/1925	VA
PRICE	MARTIN L	I LIEUT	04/17/1921	VA
PROTHIS	PINCKNEY		08/03/1863	GA
PURSE	J W		05/29/1864
QUINN	MICHAEL		05/18/1864	MISS
RALPH	J B		06/14/1862	NC
RANEY	J S		02/15/1864	ALA
RASH	URIAH		12/29/1863	NC
RAYNER	GEORGE W		05/07/1865	ALA
REA	A T		05/22/1862	VA
REEP	OBED		02/02/1864	NC
REESE	MARTIN		08/11/1863	MISS
REHILL	ANNIE		11/15/1914	VA
REHILL	EDWARD		09/25/1914	VA
REID	JULIA C		08/30/1918	VA
REID	SAMUEL D		11/7/1914	VA
RENFRAL	WILLIAM S	LIEUT	08/12/1864	GA
REYNOLDS	W F			LA
RICE	GEORGE W		06/28/1862	VA
RIEL	G W	CROP	11/14/1863	NC
RILEY	J L		06/03/1865	MISS
ROBERTS	H H		09/05/1865	MISS
ROBERTS	JOHN			CO D 15 ALA INF
RODGERS	THOMAS			GA
ROGERS	JOHN H		04/18/1865	GA
ROGERS	N A		12/07/1863	NC
ROY	EMILY H		11/2/1932	VA
ROY	RICHARD B		01/31/1921	VA
ROYSTON	C B			ALA
RUDD	J E		05/18/1917	ALA
RUSSELL	J S		05/05/1865	ALA
RUSSELL	JAMES			GA
SANDLIN	JAMES		09/19/1867	ALA
SAXON	JAMES M		12/04/1863	CO D 9 LA INF
SAYLES	GREEN	CORP	12/01/1863	LA
SCAGGS	EDWARD O		04/27/1933	MD
SCAGGS	MARION F		12/20/1937	MD
SCAGGS	ROBERT		8/5/1931	MD
SCALES	JAMES		04/25/1865	ALA
SCOTT	W A	2 LT	12/27/1914	GA
SCROGGIN	PEYTON R		06/23/1862	VA
SEAY	RICHARD B		7/2/1937	VA
SHAW	HENRY M		06/10/1865	ALA
SHILBY	MARY V	b. 12-25-1878	05/18/1963	CO C 21 REGT VA INF
SHOLLETTE	C B		06/14/1863	WHITE'S BTRY
SINCLAIR	ARTHUR G		1/8/1916	CO R 17 RFGT VA INF
SINCLAIR	CARRIE L		05/14/1916	CO K 17 REGT VA INF
SINCLAIR	WALLACE W		06/25/1917	VA
SINK	W A		02/19/1864	CO F 15 NO INF
SIZER	LUCIEN D	CORP	02/23/1918	VA
SIZER	MARY E	CORP	9/4/1923	VA
SMITH	CATHARINE M		4/3/1924	VA
SMITH	CROMONIO		02/29/1920	VA
SMITH	EDWARD T		7/8/1918	VA
SMITH	GEORGE H			ALA
SMITH	J A			GA
SMITH	MARGARET M	CAPT	1/3/1917	VA
SMITH	NATHANIEL J	CAPT	12/13/1912	VA
SMITH	ORLANDO F		01/16/1916	VA
SNYDER	CHARLES A		09/20/1915	VA
SNYDER	WILLIAM		08/31/1865	GA
SOMMERS	MARGARET M		01/29/1923
SOMMERS	SIMON L		11/13/1913
SPANN	HENRY		10/06/1864	FLA
SPRY	JAMES		12/2/1924	NC
SPRY	MARY I		04/14/1921	NC
STANLEY	E B		07/18/1864	GA
STEEVER	WEST	LT COL	09/14/1907	LA
STONE	WILLIAM		01/17/1863	SC
STONEBURNER	MARTHA V	SGT	1/5/1940	CO I S VA INF
STONEBURNER	SAMUEL G	SGT	11/16/1919	CO I S VA INF
STRAYHORNE	WILLIAM		01/20/1864	NC
SUMRALL	JOSEPH G		12/29/1862	MISS
SWANSON	SIMEON	CORP	01/12/1864	NC
TAYLOR	C W	CORP	12/28/1862	GA
TAYLOR	DAVID L		06/25/1864	GA
TAYLOR	WILSON		04/22/1865	ALA
TENNENT	JOHN C	ASST ENGR	11/7/1913
THOMAS	J P		02/06/1864
THOMPSON	GEORGE C	MUS	02/21/1920	VA
THOMPSON	GEORGE E		6/12/1921	VA
THOMPSON	LOUISA		02/21/1920	VA
THOMPSON	MARY T		8/11/1915	WIFE OF PVT M S THOMPSON
THOMPSON	T B			ALA
THOMPSON	WILLIAM T	CAPT	03/30/1920	MO
THRELKELD	FRANCIS M		10/01/1864	GA
THRIFT	BENJAMIN		03/27/1921	VA
TODD	SOPHIA		6/7/1935	IA
TODD	WILHAM E		05/25/1925	IA
TRIPP	WILLIAM C		06/25/1865	TENN
TUCKER	W		05/21/1863	CO C 34 NO INF
TURNER	THOMAS C	CORP		GA
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN			06/01/1862
UTTERBACK	JOHN		4/2/1929	VA
WALDRIP	ANDREW J		06/09/1864	GA
WALKER	ALEXANDER		1/11/1914	VA
WALKER	CORA H		12/24/1918	VA
WALLACE	J H		09/25/1865	GA
WALLACE	MICHAEL		04/27/1920	VA
WALLER	ELIZABETH D		02/22/1933	CO K 20 TENN CAV
WALSH	ALICE M		9/1/1911	FAYETTE ARTY
WALSH	JOHN H		2/12/1918	FAYETTE ARTY
WALSTON	RUFUS		06/10/1862	NC
WATERS	HUGH		11/3/1927	VA
WEST	JAMES
WEST	WILLIAM C		05/04/1865	ALA
WHALEY	GEORGE
WILKERSON	COLUMBIA T		08/27/1884	VA
WILKERSON	FANNIE M		03/03/1882	VA
WILKERSON	THOS J		10/22/1899	VA
WILKERSON	W L		07/25/1934	VA
WILKERSON	WILLIAM		08/11/1865	ALA
WILLIAMS	ASA	CORP	02/20/1864	NC
WILLIAMS	JAMES B	SGT	04/19/1927	VA
WILLIAMS	JAMES H	I LIEUT	05/16/1909	GA
WILSON	J W		01/09/1864	NC
WILSON	ROBERT		02/27/1939	CO D I MD CAV
WOLFE	THURSTON		09/26/1918	VA
WOLFE	VIRGINIA ASHBY		09/25/1925	VA
WOOD	ROBERT		07/05/1862	VA
WOODSON	CECELIA A		6/9/1940	VA
WOODSON	WALTER N		01/21/1920	VA
WOODWARD	COLUMBUS O		02/23/1920	MD
WOODWARD	DANIEL		3/10/1930	VA
WOODWARD	EMMET	SURG	05/14/1909
WOODWARD	EMMETT	SURG	05/14/1909
WOODWARD	LAURA VIRGINIA		01/27/1938	MD
WORLEY	WILLIAM			DAV VILLE BTRY
WORTHAM	JAMES A		04/21/1913	VA
WORTHAM	SARAH F		10/3/1925	VA
WRIGHT	MARCUS J	BRIG GEN	12/26/1922	GHEATHAM S DIVISION
WYATT	JOHN W		12/5/1924	VA
YEATMAN	CHARLOTTE E		4/4/1939	VA
YONT	PETER		11/10/1863	NC

¹ That registration was approved for the property's entry onto the National Register of Historic Places April 11, 2014.

² Patterson, https://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/history-of-the-csa-memorial-at-anc-1914.htm.

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Here is a link to an informative nine minute video, "The Arlington Confederate Monument," produced by the Abbeville Institute.

The Arlington Confederate Monument

PDF White Papers from Defend Arlington

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We WILL Save the Magnificent Arlington Confederate Memorial–Woke Ignorance DIES at Arlington–Letter from Our Attorney to Secretary of Defense Austin and Others–Several “serious regulatory violations” by the Federal Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery

Posted on January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 by Gene Kizer, Jr. | No Comments

We WILL Save the Magnificent Arlington Confederate Memorial

Woke Ignorance DIES at Arlington

Letter from Our Attorney to Secretary of Defense Austin and Others

Several "serious regulatory violations" by the Federal Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery

[Publisher's Note, by Gene Kizer, Jr. - We will not allow the Woke naming commission to desecrate Arlington National Cemetery. We all love ANC. It belongs to all Americans.

The naming commission came about because of Elizabeth Warren's legislation mandating destruction of Southern history in our military - as she interprets it - from the Confederate era. This is not peer-reviewed history that is openly debated by both sides but filthy politics. This is EXACTLY what Orwell warned about in his great novel 1984 when he wrote:

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

In fairness to Warren, Republican Jim Inhofe was head of the Senate Armed Services Committee at the time and Republicans had a majority. He could have stopped Warren as President Trump wanted but Inhofe is as characterless as Warren. He promised President Trump he would stop Warren's hate legislation but he lied. It is UNBELIEVABLY frustrating when Republicans prove they are the Stupid Party and go against their own voters to give the likes of Elizabeth Warren a political victory.

Without a doubt, this wokeness and Woke naming commission has made our military weaker and more divided for no reason. Changing base names and the names of streets, patches, destroying monuments, etc. is a waste of millions of dollars of taxpayer money at a time when we are running huge budget deficits. The changes do nothing but divide us just like Austin's standdown and search for extremists in the military who don't exist, and his promotion of Critical Race Theory and other racist fads.

The Woke naming commission sends a clear message to Southerners that they can bleed and die but they are not welcome unless they denounce their own families as traitors, which is not true. New England threatened to secede multiple times in the antebellum days such as in the War of 1812 and with the admission of Texas. Anything that reduced New England political power caused them to threaten secession, the right of which nobody questioned at the time. West Point made it clear and taught the right of secession in the antebellum days. Our country was founded on secession from the British Empire. Our Declaration of Independence is the greatest ordinance of secession ever written.

Southerners were correct with everything they did. They were fed up with Yankees sending terrorists into the South to murder them and their families so they called conventions, such as the Founding Fathers established with the Constitutional Convention and state ratification conventions, they debated the issue of secession then voted on it. It was pure democracy such as the Founding Fathers envisioned.

Southerners expected to live in peace but the North with four times the white population of the South and perhaps 200 times the arms decided they were not going to allow a free trade nation with warm water ports and 100% control of the most demanded commodity on the planet, cotton, to rise up on their Southern border.

Lincoln knew that the moment Southerners signed trade and military treaties with Great Britain and other Europeans powers, the North would not be able to beat the South in a war, so he sent five military missions into the South in March and April, 1861 to get one started as quickly as he could. He announced his blockade before the smoke cleared from the bombardment of Fort Sumter, which was his purpose all along. He knew that would chill European support for the South and make Europe take a wait-and-see attitude.

Lincoln made it crystal clear through 1) the War Aims Resolution, 2) his support for the Corwin Amendment that left black people in slavery forever where slavery already existed, 3) the fact that six slave states fought for the Union the entire war, 4) etc. etc., that the North did not go to war to end slavery. They went to war to continue the economic domination of the country and eliminate a powerful Southern competitor.

That's why Abraham Lincoln said over and over that the war was fought for the preservation of the Union, which guaranteed the North's political domination due to its much larger population. Still, in 1860, 61% of the country voted against Abraham Lincoln.

Republicans in Congress should immediately defund all the worthless recommendations of the Woke naming commission.

I am not against some of the names suggested for military bases but put them on new bases and new weapons and such. Do not destroy the old. It is not necessary to destroy the old. We are supposed to be inclusionary. Remember the "inclusion" part of diversity, equity and inclusion? Destroying the old using the idiotic, goofy standards of today tears at the fabric of our country. It is false history, it costs enormous amounts of money and divides us for no reason other than to allow Elizabeth Warren to signal her "virtue"¹ and for the benefit of evil politicians who think hate and anarchy will somehow benefit them.

Our military in the not too distant past looked up to Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee because they were brilliant military leaders. We had nuclear submarines named for Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson during the nuclear standoff of the Cold War. President Dwight D. Eisenhower kept a picture of Lee in his White House office the whole time he was president. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander of World War II, when important bases in the South like Fort Bragg and Fort Benning trained our men and women to go fight and win and if need be, die, certainly knew more than Elizabeth Warren and the Woke political naming commission.

Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and all other presidents until the rise of the Communist-style division of today, admired Gen. Lee, not just as a military leader but as a man of great character who worked hard to reconcile North and South and bring our great nation back together after a war in which 750,000 died and over a million were maimed. In World War II we lost 400,000 out of a population nearly five times larger.

The naming commission is so inept it does not even mention the reconciliation theme and symbolism of the Confederate Memorial though Arlington National Cemetery itself, does. ANC's own description in its National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for the Historic District received by the National Park Service February 24, 2014 states over and over that the Confederate Memorial symbolizes the reconciliation and reunification of our great country after our country's bloodiest war.²

How could the naming commission ignore that?

The Confederate Memorial was conceived by Union soldier and President William McKinley after enthusiastic Southern participation in the Spanish-American War. President William Howard Taft spoke at the UDC ceremony the evening the cornerstone was laid giving an inspiring well-received speech. President Woodrow Wilson spoke at the dedication June 4, 1914 as did Union and Confederate Veterans. Remember, these were the days of the 50th and 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and the famous handshakes across the wall by the old Union and Confederate gentlemen.

How could the naming commission not care about all that?

It proves that the Confederate Memorial is about reconciliation therefore it is not in the Woke naming commission's remit. The Confederate Memorial does not commemorate the Confederacy. It commemorates the reunification of the United States of America after a bloody war. See my white paper The Reconciliation of North and South After the War Between the States as Symbolized by the Confederate Memorial "New South" in Arlington National Cemetery on Defend Arlington's website, 28 pages on the theme of reconciliation.

The 109 year old Confederate Memorial was created in the city of Rome, Italy by internationally acclaimed Jewish sculptor Moses Ezekiel but the naming commission wants to tear it apart in the cheapest way possible and leave a mangled shaft sticking up in Arlington National Cemetery.

The white paper by Ernest E. Blevins, who is the foremost national expert on Union and Confederate monuments, is entitled: "Headstone of the Confederate States: Moses Ezekiel's Arlington Confederate Monument, Symbolism, Meaning, National Register Eligibility, and Potential Adverse Effects to Alternations or Removal." It is 49 pages, detailed, documented and irrefutable.

Blevins discusses the "monument symbology" that "depicts the South's mourning and the war's losses" and he includes a comment from Michael Robert Patterson:

But no sculptor, as far as known, has ever, in any one memorial told as much history as has Ezekiel in his monument at Arlington; and every human figure in it, as well as every symbol, is in and of itself a work of art.³

That comment again points out the crime against history and art committed by the Woke naming commission in its desire to destroy the monument as cheaply as possible and leave a mangled shaft in its place in Arlington National Cemetery surrounded by 500 graves of Southern soldiers in concentric circles.

Esteemed British art critic and historian, Alexander Adams, writes that "four soldiers are buried at its base" and "include Civil War Soldier and sculptor Corporal Moses Ezekiel . . . " therefore "The Memorial is an actual grave marker, marking the burial site of dead soldiers, and is located in the National Cemetery, making it a functional or symbolic grave marker. It is therefore outside the remit of the Naming Commission."⁴

About its artistic significance, Adams writes:

Having viewed a large amount of public statuary from the beaux-arts era (1850-1914), it is my professional opinion that the Memorial is a serious, iconographically complex and technically accomplished piece of art. It my view, it is a handsome sculpture and an entirely appropriate funerary monument. I consider it an internationally significant piece of art of its type and era. Any nation should be proud to host such a magnanimous and dignified monument."⁵

Adams also notes that:

[I]t is rare for a nation to mark the sacrifices and loses of the losing side in a civil war. This makes the Memorial internationally significant, as an example of the exceptional history of the USA and the efforts to reconcile the sides after the Civil War. It shows black and white soldiers working together, overturning expectations and putting [on] the record the complexity of historical fact, which it is not our generation's place to suppress.⁶

The naming commission prefers a mangled shaft created in the cheapest way possible marking the graves of hundreds of Southerners, which would desecrate Arlington National Cemetery for eternity.

To allow a mangled shaft to mark Southern graves in our nation's most sacred burial ground dishonors every Southern state and all the Southerners who fought with great valor and died in defense of our country in every later war, many of whom are buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

It is pretty stupid during a military recruiting crisis caused by Woke policies to insult the region from where 44% of our military is recruited.

But then, intelligence is not a Woke virtue.

Below, is a powerful letter from Defend Arlington's attorney and partner in her Washington, D.C. law firm, Karen C. Bennett. She is one of the best in the country on litigation involving historic properties and federal rules and regulations.

We can win this fight and save the magnificent Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery and strike a hard blow against Woke ignorance and iconoclasm once and for all but WE NEED MONEY and time is of the essence.

Below, there are links to where you can donate.

EVERY SCV CAMP and UDC CHAPTER and all organizations that care about American history must give NOW to the utmost. We are in a war that we can win but we must act now.

Below, are also links to all the PDF white papers gathered together by Defend Arlington including Karen Bennett's letter below. Send Bennett's letter to your Congressional representatives ASAP.

It is powerful to send a note with a PDF of Alexander Adams's testimonial since he is an international expert and his testimonial is just a few pages. Send it with Karen Bennett's letter.

Remember what President William McKinley, a former Union soldier who came up with the idea for the Confederate Memorial, said about those Southern graves surrounding the monument:

. . . every soldier's grave made during our unfortunate civil war is a tribute to American valor . . . And the time has now come . . . when in the spirit of fraternity we should share in the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers . . . The cordial feeling now happily existing between the North and South prompts this gracious act and if it needed further justification it is found in the gallant loyalty to the Union and the flag so conspicuously shown in this year just passed by the sons and grandsons of those heroic dead.

If you are descended from any of the 500 people buried in the graves in the concentric circles around the monument please contact us. Please forward this email and encourage people to get on our mailing list. We have the names, ranks, units, etc. of the 500 Southerners buried in concentric circles around the monument. We have it in a data file but I will publish all of them in the next few days.]

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Karen C. Bennett
2112 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20037

December 27, 2022

Lloyd J. Austin, III
Secretary of Defense
1000 Defense Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301-1000

Christine E. Wormuth
Secretary of the Army
101 Army Pentagon
Washington, DC 20310-0101

Re: Federal Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery

We write to express our concerns with serious regulatory violations occurring at the November 7-8, 2022, meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery (FACANC). The Department of Defense, through the Department of the Army, is charged with ensuring the FACANC's compliance with the requirement of the Federal Advisory Committee Act.⁷ The Department of the Army, to whom the Committee reports, shall take steps to remedy these serious regulatory violations as set forth below.

Defend Arlington Cemetery is a coalition of stakeholders interested in the protection of the Reconciliation Memorial in the Arlington National Cemetery (ANC). Coalition members participated in the Nov. 7-8 FACANC meeting, submitted written comments, and obtained permission to address the Committee during the public comment period.

We write to express our concern with the Department of the Army's, Designated Federal Officer's interference with FACANC deliberations as the Department of Defense prepares to remove a significant historical Memorial from our nation's most sacred military cemetery. On November 7-8, 2022, the FACANC met to discuss, among other things, implementation of the Naming Commission's recommendations, specifically, the removal of the Memorial honoring the Confederate dead.⁸ The public meeting was announced on October 21, 2022, consistent with procedures under the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (5 U.S.C. 552b) (FACA).⁹ Members of Defenders of Arlington Cemetery provided written comments to the FACANC and other members registered, consistent with procedures outlined in the notice, to provide verbal comment at the open meeting.¹⁰ Notwithstanding over 320 pages objecting to removal ¹¹, the FACANC decided not to respond or provide any advice regarding the Naming Commission recommendation. Even worse, without any explanation, the FACANC refused to allow those members of the public that had properly registered to appear before the FACANC, denying them their right to speak and ensuring their opposition would not be included in the official meeting record. The FACANC's silence is disappointing and fails to meet congressional expectations under the FACANC's Charter. The FACANC's decision to prohibit public speech is a violation of the federal law that governs how Congressionally established advisory committees exercise their functions.¹² Congress charged the Department of Defense, through the Secretary of the Army, with ensuring the FACANC's actions are consistent with the FACA. The Secretary of the Army should reconvene the FACANC for the purpose of providing the public with an opportunity to address the Committee consistent with expectations established in the October 21, 2022 meeting announcement.

Congress established the FACANC to provide the Secretary of Defense with independent advice or recommendations on matters including the erection of memorials in ANC.¹³ The Secretary's approval of the Naming Commission recommendation to remove the Memorial honoring our national great reconciliation following the Civil War falls squarely within the FACANC's purpose. During the November 8 meeting, FACANC members raised concerns with the decision to remove the Memorial. The Designated Federal Officer (DFO) responded that the decision to remove the Memorial had already been made and that there was no opportunity for the FACANC's input to the Secretary. We were shocked to hear the DFO provide the Committee with such substantive direction. DoD regulations are clear that a DFO's responsibility is purely administrative, limited calling meeting, approving agendas, adjourning where the public interest requires and, if directed, assuming the role of Chair ¹⁴. We strongly believe that without the strong direction of the DFO that "this is already decided" the FACANC would have continued its deliberations and may very likely have decided an advisory report responding to the Secretary's approval of the Naming Commission's recommendation was warranted. The DFO's inappropriate actions shut down further discussion and influenced the outcome, causing the FACANC to erroneously conclude that there was no opportunity to perform its congressionally assigned advisory role.

The FACANC's decision not to allow properly registered members of the public speak at the meeting is a violation of DoD's regulations at 41 C.F.R. 102-3.140(d) that provide "any member of the public may speak, if an agency's guidelines so permit." In this case, procedures for registration to address the FACANC were provided in the Oct. 21, 2022 meeting announcement. Members of Defenders of Arlington Cemetery, among others, submitted and received confirmation of the request to speak. However, without explanation, Committee Co-Chairs, Peake and Edwards, decided not to allow any registrants to speak. Not only did the Committee act in violation of the governing regulations, but the public was denied its right to be heard and have its voice registered in the meeting record. Department of the Army legal counsel in attendance at the meeting failed to raise concerns that the Committee's decision violated the regulations governing FACA obligations.

The Department of the Army, to whom the Committee reports, shall take immediate steps to remedy the foregoing serious regulatory violations.

Sincerely,

/s/ Karen C. Bennett

Karen C. Bennett of
LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP

cc:

Lt. General James Peake
Chair, Federal Advisory Committee on
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery
1 Memorial Avenue
Arlington, VA 22211

Mr. Thomas Edwards
Chair, Federal Advisory Committee on
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery
1 Memorial Avenue
Arlington, VA 22211

Mark Takano, Chairman (CA-D)
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
364 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

Mike Bost, Ranking Member (IL-R)
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
364 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

Jon Tester, Chairman (MT)
US Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
412 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-6050

Jerry Moran, Ranking Member (IL)
US Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
412 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-6050

Capt. Thomas Kelley
Arlington National Cemetery
1 Memorial Ave.
Arlington, Virginia 22211

Col. Gene E. Castagnetti
Arlington National Cemetery
1 Memorial Ave.
Arlington, Virginia 22211

Maj. Gen. Elizabeth A. Harrell
Arlington National Cemetery
1 Memorial Ave.
Arlington, Virginia 22211

Lt. Col. Gerald Torrence
Arlington National Cemetery
1 Memorial Ave.
Arlington, Virginia 22211

Vice Adm. Ann Rondeau
Arlington National Cemetery
1 Memorial Ave.
Arlington, Virginia 22211

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CHIP IN FOR THE ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY MEMORIAL LITIGATION DEFENSE FUND

Please Donate Money -- THANK YOU!

Here is a link to an informative nine minute video, "The Arlington Confederate Monument," produced by the Abbeville Institute.

The Arlington Confederate Monument

PDF White Papers from Defend Arlington

Click Here for Bode Lang's excellent video,

Take action TODAY!

¹ Elizabeth Warren has no virtue. She knows nothing about Southern history and perhaps even less about her own: ". . . Warren held herself out as Native American, allowing Harvard Law School to use her as cover for its impotent diversity efforts" and:

According to a much-cited investigation by the Boston Globe, Warren consistently checked "white" on personnel forms throughout her career, including in 1981, 1985, and 1998 while employed at the University of Texas. But in the 1986-1987 edition of the Association of American Law School's directory and eight subsequent editions, Warren listed herself as a minority. She began identifying as Native American on personnel forms three years into her post at the University of Pennsylvania. And while multiple professors have attested to the fact that Warren was considered white during the hiring process at Harvard University, in 1995 she self-identified as Native American, and the school's statistics were updated to reflect as much. Harvard recorded Warren as Native American from 1995 to 2004. [https://theintercept.com/2018/10/16/elizabeth-warren-dna-video-native-american-harvard/, accessed 12-3-22]

² That registration was approved for the property's entry onto the National Register of Historic Places April 11, 2014.

³ Patterson, https://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/history-of-the-csa-memorial-at-anc-1914.htm.

⁴ Alexander Adams, "Testimony regarding Arlington National Cemetery Confederate Memorial submitted to the Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery Open Secession, 7-8 November 2022." Adams's source is Arlington National Cemetery's National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for the Historic District received by the National Park Service February 24, 2014, mentioned above. It was approved for the property's entry onto the National Register of Historic Places April 11, 2014.

⁵ Ibid.

⁶ Ibid.

⁷ Charter Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery, 6, The Department of Defense (DoD), through the Department of the Army, . . . and will ensure compliance with the requirements of the FACA, the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. Section 552b, as amended, "the Sunshine Act"), Federal statutes and regulations and DoD policies and procedures.

⁸ September 2022, The Naming Commission Final Report to the United States Congress Part III: Remaining Department of Defense Assets, p. 15.

⁹ 87 Federal Register 64019 (Oct. 21, 2022).

¹⁰ Id. at 64020.

¹¹ Written Statements to the ACANC Nov. 7-8, 2022 meeting.

¹² Charter Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery, 6, The Department of Defense (DoD), through the Department of the Army, . . . and will ensure compliance with the requirements of the FACA, the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976 (5. U.S.C. Section 552b, as amended, "the Sunshine Act"), government Federal statutes and regulations and DoD policies and procedures.

¹³ Charter, Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery available at:

Charter (arlingtoncemetery.mil).

¹⁴ 41 C.F.R. 102-3. 120.

Arlington National Cemetery Confederate Memorial: Testimony of British Art Critic and Historian, Alexander Adams

Posted on January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 by Gene Kizer, Jr. | 1 Comment

Arlington National Cemetery Confederate Memorial:

Testimony of British Art Critic and Historian,

Alexander Adams

[Publisher's Note, by Gene Kizer, Jr. - Alexander Adams is one of the finest art critics and historians alive today. His testimony, below, is also available as a PDF along with the many scholarly white papers written for Defend Arlington. There is a link, following this post, to PDFs of all the white papers and other materials including a recent strong letter from Defend Arlington's attorney, Karen C. Bennett, to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and others.

Bennett points out numerous deliberate violations of federal regulations by the Federal Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery in its haste to support the destruction of the 109 year old Confederate Memorial before the public and lawmakers can stop them.

When you read Adams's testimonial about the enormous artistic and historic value of the Confederate Memorial, you will realize how barbaric and UNAMERICAN the destruction of this magnificent memorial in our nation's most sacred burial ground really is.

This is the most symbolic monument in American history because it involves the central event in American history, our War Between the States. Before the war, states were sovereign and supreme over the federal government.

After the war, the federal government was supreme over the states.

To gaze on the Confederate monument is to contemplate battlefields drenched in blood and strewn with dead and dying men, who back home had grieving families, widows and children, parents who got the horrifying news that their young man, their little boy, was killed and buried in a place they will never know or be able to visit and grieve.

Around 750,000 died in the War Between the States and over a million were maimed out of a national population of 31 million. In World War II, we lost around 400,000 out of a national population of 132 million.

President William McKinley, a former Union soldier, came up with the idea for a Confederate memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. He said after the Spanish-American war in 1898:

. . . every soldier's grave made during our unfortunate civil war is a tribute to American valor . . . And the time has now come . . . when in the spirit of fraternity we should share in the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers . . . The cordial feeling now happily existing between the North and South prompts this gracious act and if it needed further justification it is found in the gallant loyalty to the Union and the flag so conspicuously shown in this year just passed by the sons and grandsons of those heroic dead.

The memorial was enthusiastically endorsed by Congress and Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson. Taft gave an eloquent speech at the UDC ceremony the evening of the laying of the cornerstone. Wilson spoke at the June 4, 1914 dedication as did Union and Confederate veterans and others who all supported reconciliation, binding up the nation's wounds and moving forward. Other presidents including Barack Obama sent wreaths of commemoration or flowers each year.

But to the Woke naming commission and current commissioners on the Federal Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery, none of that matters.

Any commissioner who supports the destruction of a 109 year old monument symbolizing the reconciliation of our great country is unfit to walk the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery much less serve on its advisory board.

All of this came about so one of the most historically ignorant people in American history, Elizabeth Warren, could crow about her "virtue." Warren knows nothing about Southern history and even less about her own: ". . . Warren held herself out as Native American, allowing Harvard Law School to use her as cover for its impotent diversity efforts" and:

According to a much-cited investigation by the Boston Globe, Warren consistently checked "white" on personnel forms throughout her career, including in 1981, 1985, and 1998 while employed at the University of Texas. But in the 1986-1987 edition of the Association of American Law School's directory and eight subsequent editions, Warren listed herself as a minority. She began identifying as Native American on personnel forms three years into her post at the University of Pennsylvania. And while multiple professors have attested to the fact that Warren was considered white during the hiring process at Harvard University, in 1995 she self-identified as Native American, and the school's statistics were updated to reflect as much. Harvard recorded Warren as Native American from 1995 to 2004. [https://theintercept.com/2018/10/16/elizabeth-warren-dna-video-native-american-harvard/, accessed 12-3-22]

Warren was supported by Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee led by Jim Inhofe when Republicans controlled it. Inhofe told President Trump repeatedly that he would remove the part of the NDAA FY2021 that would change United States Army base names in the South, but he is a liar and his lies have now led to the imminent desecration of Arlington National Cemetery unless we stop it.

At a time when we are in a recruiting crisis in the United States Military, it is absurd to insult the region from where 44% of military personnel are recruited. Military service has always been revered in the South and part of that comes from admiration for the valor of our Confederate ancestors fighting for independence and defending their homes and families from an invasion 1861 to 1865.

We are damn proud of our Confederate ancestors and proud of their descendants like Medal of Honor winners and legends Audie Murphy of Texas and Alvin York of Tennessee.

We are damn proud of the Southerners who won the War of 1812 in New Orleans when Elizabeth Warren's slave-trading New Englanders were committing treason with the Hartford Convention.

It is important to write your Congressional representatives and tell them that the demolition of the 109 year old Confederate Memorial to reconciliation would be a stain on Arlington National Cemetery for all time and simply must be stopped now.

The Confederate Memorial is a grave marker as shown by the pictures above. It was designed and constructed by internationally renowned Jewish sculptor Moses Ezekiel, himself a Confederate veteran, a graduate of VMI. He is buried with three other Southerners at the base of his beautiful monument thus making it their headstone but also the grave marker for 462 other Confederate graves arranged in concentric circles around the monument and an integral part of the memorial as intended by Congress, several presidents and veterans North and South.

There are important links at the end of this outstanding testimonial by Alexander Adams.

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Testimony regarding Arlington National Cemetery Confederate Memorial submitted to the Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery Open Session

by Alexander Adams (British art critic, historian, author)

7-8 November 2022

Standing of submitter

I am a British cultural critic and art historian, who has written six books and over 1,000 articles over the course of a 20-year career. I have frequently written on the areas of free speech and historical preservation. In the course of researching my book Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History (2020, Imprint Academic) I encountered many examples of politically motivated intolerance that manifested itself in the historical suppression of defeated groups. In that book, I extensively discussed and catalogued the recent destruction of Confederate heritage. Although I have not seen the Arlington National Cemetery Confederate Memorial in person – I am rarely able to visit Washington DC, sadly – I have seen photographs and read descriptions. I have often reviewed sculpture of the same period and style as this memorial.

General response to the Final Report of the Naming Commission

I was alarmed by the Naming Commission’s Final Report, particularly with regard to Arlington National Cemetery Confederate Memorial (the Memorial). The Memorial marks a reconciliation of sorts between the sides, both the few living veterans and their descendants. Such serious and dignified memorial work, consecrated by the nation as a whole, is a tribute to American and Christian virtues of charity and hope. By removing such a symbol of reconciliation, the implication is that there can be no end to the Civil War, that the future must see that eradication of a historical legacy and that includes unending humiliation of the legatees of the defeated side.

When I consider the Naming Commission’s recommendations, I am reminded of the words of your President Lincoln: “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan – to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.” That is, it is the duty of the victors to extend charity and compassion to the defeated side’s veterans, widows and orphans – and their descendants – by allowing them to honour their dead as they see fit and (incidentally) as the Union victors saw fit to allow them.

Legal objections

On legal grounds, it seems that the Naming Commission has exceeded its authority by making a recommendation about the destruction of the Memorial, as it is a grave marker. According the page 4 of the Final Report (part III), one of the renaming criteria given to the commission (as stipulated in Section 370) is “Asset is not a grave marker.” According to the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (dated 24 February 2014, pp. 25-6) four soldiers are buried at its base. These include Civil War soldier and sculptor Corporal Moses Ezekiel, whose work the memorial is. The Memorial it is an actual grave marker, marking the burial site of dead soldiers, and is located in the National Cemetery, making it a functional or symbolic grave marker. It is therefore outside the remit of the Naming Commission.

Artistic significance

Having viewed a large amount of public statuary from the beaux-arts era (1850-1914), it is my professional opinion that the Memorial is a serious, iconographically complex and technically accomplished piece of art. In my view, it is a handsome sculpture and an entirely appropriate funerary monument. I consider it an internationally significant piece of art of its type and era. Any nation should be proud to host such a magnanimous and dignified monument.

The inscription “And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.” provides a Biblical guidance to turning from war to peace. This is echoed by the personification of the South, which holds the wreath of glory and touches the plough of peaceful prosperity. The frieze below depicts the contributions of those who supported the war effort.

It was made for its specific site with a specific purpose in mind by the artist and commissioners, so that relocating it would do its meaning great damage. Relocating it would remove a major part of the effect and distort its integrity as surely as cutting away a figure or effacing an inscription would.

Historical significance

It is worth noting that it is rare for a nation to mark the sacrifices and loses of the losing side in a civil war. This makes the Memorial internationally significant, as an example of the exceptional history of the USA and the efforts to reconcile the sides after the Civil War. It shows black and white soldiers working together, overturning expectations and putting the record the complexity of historical fact, which it is not our generation’s place to suppress.

The fact that Presidents McKinley, Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson (of both Democrat and Republican Parties) supported the erection and dedication of the Memorial gives former presidential support a non-partisan character. On 4 June 1914, President Wilson dedicated the Memorial with these words: “And, now, it has fallen to my lot to accept in the name of the great Government which I am privileged for the time to represent this emblem of a reunited people. I am not so much happy as proud to participate in this capacity on such an occasion,—proud that I should represent such a people. Am I mistaken, ladies and gentlemen, in supposing that nothing of this sort could have occurred in anything but a democracy? The people of democracy are not related to their rulers as subjects are related to a government. They are themselves the sovereign authority, and as they are neighbors of each other, quickened by the same influences and moved by the same motives, they can understand each other. They are shot through with some of the deepest and profoundest instincts of human sympathy. They choose their governments; they select their rulers; they live their own life, and they will not have that life disturbed and discolored by fraternal misunderstandings.”

Wilson’s consideration of democracy healing wounds and allowing fractured populations to express fraternal sympathy is a lesson to those who seek to maintain democracy as an American civic value. When we look at other countries, we do not find similar generosity extended to the defeated. This makes the Memorial rare. Regardless of one’s own views on the Civil War, it is a duty to preserve monuments constructed by those who had direct first-hand experience of the war and its veterans.

Response of Jewish groups

The fact that commissioners chose a sculptor who was Jewish is significant, as it shows generosity towards a group considered marginal at the time. The artist recognised the seriousness of his task and considered it an honour, as witnessed by his letter of 11 February 1911 (Exhibit A). The destruction of the Memorial – which is what any removal would amount to – would be an insult to the artist and reduce the cultural breadth of the nation. A Jewish writer has explained his objects eloquently in a letter I received, submitted as Exhibit B. The author concludes, “We would urge you to leave the Arlington Confederate Memorial exactly as our forefathers intended it.”

Recommendation of submitter

My professional advice is that I strongly recommend that the Arlington National Cemetery Confederate Memorial remains unaltered, for reasons of historical and artistic integrity.

Alexander Adams

7/8 November 2022

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List of the 518 Confederate Burials in Arlington National Cemetery

Concentric circles of graves extend out from the magnificent Confederate Monument

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List includes all the burials in ANC Section 16, mostly men, some women

Most have their home state listed; some also have unit name, number, letter or whether cavalry, infantry or artillery

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Arlington National Cemetery Confederate Memorial:

Testimony of British Art Critic and Historian,

Alexander Adams

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List of the 518 Confederate Burials
in Arlington National Cemetery

Concentric circles of graves extend out
from the magnificent Confederate Monument

If any of these folks are your ancestors,
please contact us IMMEDIATELY

List includes all the burials in ANC Section 16,
mostly men, some women

Most have their home state listed; some also have unit
name, number, letter or whether cavalry, infantry
or artillery