Tuesday, January 10, 2012
NC Patriots of ’61 -- Colonel William Lee Davidson
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North Carolina Patriots of ’61 -- Colonel William Lee Davidson of Mecklenburg County:
Colonel Davidson was born at Oak Lawn plantation in Mecklenburg County 10 February 1825, son of Benjamin Wilson and Elizabeth Latta Davidson. He attended Davidson College, named for relative Brigadier-General William Lee Davidson who was killed fighting the British at Cowan’s Ford, North Carolina in 1781.
He was a Mexican War veteran and a merchant before 1861. At the outbreak of war with the North, Davidson was elected Captain of his Mecklenburg company on 16 May 1861, mustered as Company D, 7th North Carolina Regiment at Camp Mason in Graham in August 1861. He was promoted to Major 24 February 1863; and Lieutenant-Colonel on 3 May 1863. The 7th North Carolina included men from Iredell, Alexander (Alexander State Troops), Cabarrus (Cabarrus Minute Men), Rowan, New Hanover, Mecklenburg, Nash (Stanhope Tiger Guards) and Wake (Wake Rangers) counties. The regiment saw action at New Bern, Hanover Court House, Seven Days’, Second Manassas, Ox Hill, Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Appomattox
Colonel Davidson was wounded in action at Chancellorsville, wounded again at the Wilderness, captured by the enemy at the latter. Exchanged in August 1864, he was promoted to Colonel on 28 November 1864 and was paroled on 15 May 1865 in Charlotte.
Living in Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina and Lincolnton, North Carolina in the postwar, Colonel Davidson worked as a lawyer and clerk for several railroads. He married Anne Irvine in 1870, died in Chester, South Carolina 13 August 1899. He is buried in St. Luke’s Episcopal Cemetery in Lincolnton.
(Source: Confederate Colonels, Bruce S. Allardice, University of Missouri Press, 2008)
NC Patriots of ’61 -- Colonel William Lee Davidson
Bonnie & Clyde Tommy Gun, shotgun on auction
Both online and present, the serious and curious Jan. 21 will be bidding and watching as a Tommy Gun and Winchester shotgun linked to bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrows at a Kansas City, Mo., auction house.
The family decided they had no interest in owning the guns anymore, said Robert Mayo, president and co-owner of Kansas City’s Mayo Auction and Realty.
Mayo, who will be the auctioneer of the entire catalog of roughly 100 firearms that day, said, “The father and the grandfather had passed away and they felt it was time that the guns go to somebody who would appreciate them.” From 1973 to just a few months ago, Mayo said the family lent the two guns to the Springfield Police Museum.
Although the two guns appear in good working order, the auctioneer said they most likely had not been fired since May 23, 1934, when the two were cut down in a Louisiana firefight with a Texas Ranger-led posse sent to hunt them down.
Missouri car dealer Mark Muller, the owner of Max Motors, said he registered for the auction Jan. 6, as soon as he heard about it.
Muller said the chance to buy a Bonnie & Clyde Tommy Gun is going to be too much for people to pass up.
“I will buy up to $50,000, but that won’t get it done,” he said.
Allen West on Obama: "He has a complete contempt for the legislative branch."
The Florida Republican says Newt Gingrich is the “smartest” GOP candidate but thinks any of the Republican hopefuls can beat Obama in what undoubtedly will be a “brutal bloodbath.”
West also asserts that sanctions will not succeed in deterring Iran’s belligerency and warns that the United States should not cut the defense budget to make the military the “bill-payer” for Washington’s failure to rein in spending.
Ron Paul Haunts New Hampshire
Goes without saying
Paul is likely to finish second here in the "Live Free or Die" state, after having finished third in Iowa, and it is difficult to imagine any scenario in which the libertarian-leaning Texan could win the GOP nomination. He does not have what the pundits call a "path to the nomination." And yet the implausibility of Paul's campaign does not seem to deter his notoriously enthusiastic supporters.
"President Paul! President Paul! President Paul!" hundreds of them chanted in a Nashua aircraft hangar Friday, expressing the least likely of all outcomes in this topsy-turvy Republican campaign. As absurd as such hopes may seem, however, it is remarkable that the candidate most likely to win – former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney – generates nothing like the excitement shown by Paul's supporters. Republicans are seemingly prepared to nominate the tepid "It's His Turn" candidate, while rejecting the only candidate in the GOP field who comes near to matching the cult-like following inspired by President Obama.
There are many mysteries to the phenomenon that is Ron Paul.Silence Before Storm
They were family living in building that was populated with important people from the old politic system, like retired politicians, rich and important people.
It was about about one month after SHTF started, family stayed inside, did not know what to do, their apartment building was one of the few that gangs did not visit yet.
They heard screams and pistol shots, bad sign always, then loud curses, and sound of fighting. Anyway, there was no too much time to do anything smart,while gang get to their floor, they managed to hide girl in one of the closet, and put some pillows and stuff on her.
They did not have any weapon in apartment, except kitchen knifes. Son was in late about 17 years old , perfect age to be killed, or in better (or in worse case) to be recruited in their gang.
So they do only thing that make some sense, he just play that he is retarded,staring in one direction, drooling. When they entered apartment, they did not loose to much time on questions, luckily it was just quick sweep, so they did not find a girl under the blankets, just quick stealing time with few smacks for the woman, man tried to protect her, but he ended dead, they even did not shoot him, they just threw him trough the window. 4th floor.
Poll: Americans, 2-1, Fear Obama's Reelection
In our New Year's poll, when asked what news event they fear most about 2012, Americans by a margin of two-to-one said Obama's reelection. Only 16 percent said they fear the Democrat won't win a second term, while 33 percent said they fear four more years. [Check out the top political events of 2011]
Next to Obama's reelection, 31 percent of Americans said they feared higher taxes, which may be proof that the president's focus on the payroll tax cut has hit paydirt.