On Saturday, October 19th, I traveled to Seven Springs, North
Carolina at the invitation of the gentlemen of The Confederate States Armory,
Kenansville Camp #2157 SCV. They were meeting to raise a new 10x15 battle flag
at the Whitehall Confederate Monument.
The monument, dedicated in 2008, was erected in memory of the 13
men who died in the Battle of Whitehall. My friend, Brock Townsend had
encouraged me to look on the back for his grandfather's quote. I was not
disappointed:
"I say we cannot know your suffering, but this we do know; We love and honour you, veterans, and are justly proud of the heritage you have given us. Just so long as warm blood flows in the veins of man, so long will the words 'Confederate Veteran' cause that blood to tingle with glorious pride, and, if there be one among us, born in our glorious Southland who is not so thrilled, every drop of stagnant blood proclaims him bastard to the South-a coward to all the world."
"I say we cannot know your suffering, but this we do know; We love and honour you, veterans, and are justly proud of the heritage you have given us. Just so long as warm blood flows in the veins of man, so long will the words 'Confederate Veteran' cause that blood to tingle with glorious pride, and, if there be one among us, born in our glorious Southland who is not so thrilled, every drop of stagnant blood proclaims him bastard to the South-a coward to all the world."
--Joseph Powell Pippen, Esq.
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