Southernist Pride

10/14/2026

10/13/2026

The Orwellian Mao-Leftists took the flags off this veteran’s chapel.

This photo shows the historical Confederate battle flags on the front of the historic white Confederate Chapel in Richmond, Virginia. The flags are gone.

This building is the Confederate Memorial Chapel, aka the Pelham Chapel. From 1885 to 1941 the whole tract of land in this area — the ground the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts now occupies — was the R. E. Lee Camp No. 1 Confederate Soldiers’ Home.

The veterans bought the Robinson farm themselves. Nearly three thousand old veterans called it home.

In 1887 those same men, many disabled and broke, paid for the chapel and dedicated it to more than 260,000 Confederate dead. About 1,700 funerals were held inside before the home closed in 1941.

The Camp had deeded the grounds to Virginia for upkeep and a pledge that the land would stay a Confederate memorial park. That promise was broken. The state took the land. Then it took the rest. The cottages came down. Robinson House and the chapel were left standing. Lesson learned, don’t trust leftist governments with anything.

In 1993 the Sons of Confederate Veterans got a lease. When it came up in 2010, the VMFA board told them the battle flag had to come off. By 2011 the flags were down.

In 2015 the lease was not renewed, the SCV rejected the museum’s substitute paperwork, and the state took the keys.

Soon afterwards the flag on the pole were banned. Then the colors inside the sanctuary the veterans built were treated as contraband and also purged.

The Orwellian Mao-leftists were not finished. In April 2026 Governor Abigail Spanberger signed HB 167, cruelly ending tax exemptions to the non-profit heritage organization, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Virginia Sons of Confederate Veterans, and other heritage groups. Glenn Youngkin had vetoed the same idea twice.

The UDC’s Richmond headquarters, on land the state itself conveyed in 1950, is valued around $4.7 million. The new bill runs roughly $50,000 to $57,000 a year. This is a clear case of leftist discrimination and selective targeting.

Leftists defend tax exemptions for anti-American civic clubs. Southern heritage organizations get targeted.

A promise was made to dying men on that ground. This photograph shows what keeping a promise looked like. -RJ

10/13/2026

Most white Southerners in 1860 were dirt farmers on small plots, growing what they ate, poor as any mid-American pioneer. Slavery was not their world. When they took up arms it was because an army was coming through their counties—homes burned, farms stripped, women and children victims of the Yankee invasion.

They fought for the ground under their feet. After the Yankee armies passed, Southern women kept the farms and the families alive with almost no help from the government that now ruled them. What Washington called Reconstruction was the tearing-down of a way of life.

Pensions for Confederate widows did not come until 1893—nearly thirty years later.

Forgiving is not the same as forgetting. The facts remain: most of the men in gray were defending home, not a plantation. -RJ