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The First National Flag flying in front of the Grimes County Courthouse
in Anderson, Texas, as part of
Confederate History and Heritage month.
"...governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on
such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
United States Declaration of Independence
"The Principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form."
President Jefferson Davis, C.S.A.
Article on Jefferson Davis
"Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox
Courthouse; no sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men,
my sword in this right hand."
General Robert E. Lee to Governor Stockdale of Texas
"I hope the day will never come that my grandsons will be ashamed to own that I was a Confederate Soldier."
Private A. Y. Handy, 32nd Texas Cavalry, C.S.A.
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