Oak Alley Plantation in southern Louisiana: The broad walkway leading to the two-story, columned plantation house is flanked by a double row of live oak trees.

“My family never owned slaves”

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Much as we may try to do so, we cannot buy ourselves “a pass from American history,” nor from the racist fallout still occurring today.

Sky filled with storm clouds, black and blood-red

Confederate Memorial Day and cataclysmic storms

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In April 2011 and again in April 2014 – on the date when the most state celebrations of the former Confederacy converged – major storms spawned deadly tornadoes and record-breaking…

In the center of the frame, between a rough wood-plank fence in the front and a green forest backed by blue mountaintops in the rear, is the cornfield at Antietam - the site of a fierce Civil War battle and the single bloodiest day in American history.
Cornfield at Antietam

Redeeming the past

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Mini-post. Image of the cornfield at Antietam, where my great-great-grandfather fought. Quote about repeating the past and redeeming the past, from We Confess! The Civil War, the South, and the Church.

Faded black-and-white of four Union soldiers from the Seventy-Seventh Pennsylvania regiment (with one on horseback), outside Shiloh Church at the time of the battle
“In the very center of this dreadful contest, so destructive to life and limb, stood this humble, little log-church, from which the great battle of Shiloh took its name.”

Shiloh

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“In the very center of this dreadful contest, so destructive to life and limb, stood this humble, little log-church, from which the great battle of Shiloh took its name.” April…