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DixieBroadcasting Announced:
Happy 200th Birthday
President Jefferson Davis
from the listeners and staff at DixieBroadcasting!
This week marks the 200th birthday of the first President of the Confederacy… President Jefferson Davis!
All week long on the “Dixie Dynamite” program, you can enjoy learning more about President Davis… the man, his faith, his devotion to the Cause, his family, and even [...]

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February 22, 1862
Fellow-Citizens: On this the birthday of the man most identified with the establishment of American independence, and beneath the monument erected to commemorate his heroic virtues and those of his compatriots, we have assembled to usher into existence the Permanent Government of the Confederate States. Through this instrumentality, under the favor of Divine [...]

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“The unjust war commenced against us in violation of the rights of the States, and in usurpation of power not delegated to the government of the United States, is still characterised by the barbarism with which it has heretofore been conducted by the enemy. Aged men, helpless women and children, appeal in vain to the [...]

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Thank You SLMNews

You may have noticed the new pro Southron avatars.  They are from SLMNews; so if you like them check out their website to look for one of your own. 

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“I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.”

Jefferson Davis

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In the middle of April 1862, the 18th Ohio under Turchin’s command occupied Athens, Alabama, a prosperous town of about 1200 population. On May 1, however, they were driven out by a combined regular and partisan Confederate cavalry force of only 112 men and retreated back to Huntsville. The Confederate cavalry was greeted with cheers [...]

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