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To the question put to Abraham Lincoln concerning the civil war, "Do you think God is on our side?", he replied, "The important questions is not, 'Do you think God is on our side?' rather it is, "Are we on God's side?"

Select here: The Southern National Anthem, Dixie

Local customs, however hardened by time, are not decreed in heaven. Habits and feelings they engender may be counteracted and moderated.

Select Here: Experience attests that such local habits and feelings will yield, gradually though this be, to law and education.

And educational influences are exerted not only by explicit teaching. They vigorously flow from the fruitful exercise of the responsibility of those charged with political official power, and from the almost unconsciously transforming actualities of living under law.

Select here for The Confederate States of America

1861-1865

The Executive Cabinet

"To advance the cultural, social, economic, and political well-being and

Independence of the Southern people by all honorable means."

One-hundred and thirty eight years ago our United States was torn apart by the greatest Civil War this world has ever endured. There existed two countries that could not come to terms with Slavery. The South, led by their president Jefferson Davis was a country that stood for the rights of the states and the Institution of Slavery. The North, led by their President Abraham Lincoln stood for the application of the Constitution. While some may blame or herald Jefferson Davis, the following men had a large hand in the decisions he made toward running the Confederate States of America.

Select here for: The Southern National Anthem....Please Stand

Secretaries of State

Robert Toombs (21 February 1861-25 July 1861)
R.M.T. Hunter (25 July 1861-1 February 1862)
William M. Brown (1 February 1862-18 March 1862)
Judah P. Benjamin (18 March 1862-4 May 1865)

Attorney Generals

Judah P. Benjamin (25 February 1861- 17 September 1861)
Wade Keyes ( 17 September 1861-21 November 1861)
Thomas Bragg (21 November 1861-18 March 1862)
Thomas Watts (18 March 1862-1 October 1863)
Wade Keyes (1 October 1863-2 January 1864)
George Davis (2 January 1864-April 1865)

Secretaries of the Treasury

Christopher Memminger (21 February 1861-18 July 1864)
George Trenholm (18 July 1864-27 April 1865)

Secretary of the Navy

Stephen Mallory (2 March 1861-4 May 1865)

Postmaster General

John Reagan (6 March 1861-10 May 1865)

Secretaries of War

Leroy Pope Walker (21 February 1861-17 September 1861)
Judah Benjamin (17 September 1861-18 March 1862)
Brig. Gen. George Randolph (18 March 1862-17 November 1862)
Maj. Gen. Gustavus Smith (17 November 1862-21 November 1862)
James Seddon (21 November 1862-6 February 1865)
Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge (6 February 1865-4 May 1865)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

or Life among the Lowly

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe: 1811-1896

Harriet Beecher was born June 14, 1811, the seventh child of a famous protestant preacher. Harriet worked as a teacher with her older sister Catharine: her earliest publication was a geography for children, issued under her sister's name in 1833. In 1836, Harriet married widower Calvin Stowe: they eventually had seven children. Stowe helped to support her family financially by writing for local and religious periodicals. During her life, she wrote poems, travel books, biographical sketches, and children's books, as well as adult novels. She met and corresponded with people as varied as Lady Byron, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and George Eliot. She died at the age of 85, in Hartford Conneticutt.