User:Charlie Kitts/sandbox

I would like to address the article from last week that stated no Confederate uniforms or flags present at the funeral of Robert E. Lee. Reconstruction is the term used for the attempted transformation of the Southern states that had succeeded from the Union. Conditions of Reconstruction barred ex Southern soldiers from wearing their war time uniforms. Reconstruction terms also barred the flying of any Confederate flags. Most Confederate battle flags had been confiscated by Union soldiers. If ex Southern soldiers were caught wearing their wartime uniforms they would have been arrested and tried for treason and or other offenses. Henry Kyd Douglas wrote his war time history in a book titled I Rode with Stonewall. (ISBN 089176-040-7) In his book he gives an account of a lady friend asking him to wear his uniform and pose with her for a picture .Page 323 gives his account of being arrested and tried for treason for having only worn the uniform in the photographers office. The author of this article ignored this historic fact when he wrote his opinion. I would encourage people to do a little research rather than add to the growing volume of misinformation in our media today. Charlie Kitts