FIVE GENERATIONS AGO MY DIRECT ANCESTOR AND MANY OTHER BRAVE SOUTHNERS FOUGHT FOR THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA IN A GREAT WAR. TIME HAS DISTORTED THE REASONS THAT THESE BRAVE MEN FOUGHT AND DIED . THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR THEIR FREEDOM FROM AN OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT, JUST AS THEIR ANCESTORS HAD FOUGHT IN THE REVOLTIONARY WAR THREE GENERATIONS EARLIER. THEY SUFFERED AND DIED FOR THEIR FREEDOM AND OURS. I AM A REBEL, AND PROUD OF IT
JESSE SHASTEEN WAS BORN IN VIRGINIA AS AN ENGLISH CITIZEN AND FOUGHT IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FOR FREEDOM FROM AN OPPRESIVE BRITTISH GOVERNMENT.
HE WAS A REBEL, AS SEEN BY THE ENGLISH, JUST AS HIS ANCESTORS THAT FOUGHT FOR SOUTHERN RIGHTS WERE SEEN AS REBELS. I BELIEVE THAT IF HE HAD BEEN THERE HE WOULD HAVE FOUGHT FOR THE THE SOUTH.
FREEDOM IS THE SAME FOR ALL GENERATIONS.
JACOB A. SHASTEEN, MY GREAT,GREAT,GREAT GRANDFATHER PROUDLY FOUGHT WITH CO.C, 34TH. TENNESSEE INF. C.S.A.
MY OTHER DESCENDANTS WHO FOUGHT FOR THECONFIDERCY ARE,
JAMES ALLEN SHASTEEN CO. B, 28TH. TN. CAV. C.S.A.
ANDREW W. SHASTEEN SGT. C. CO. 34TH TN. INF. C.S.A. DIED WHILE SERVING
ELIJAH B. SHASTEEN SGT. C. CO. 34TH. TN. INF. C.S.A.
THOMAS P. SHASTEEN 34TH. TN. INF. C.S.A. KILLED IN ACTION
SAMUEL JACKSON SHASTEEN 34TH. TN. INF. C.S.A.
EZEKIEL F SHASTEEN 1ST. SGT. 1ST.(TURKEY'S) INF. KILLED IN ACTION
GEORGE W. SHASTEEN CO. C,34TH.TN. INF. C.S.A. KILLED IN ACTION
TRIBBLE L. SHASTEEN C CO. 34TN INF. C.S.A. KILLED IN ACTION
BENJAMIN B. SHASTEEN D CO. 1ST. TENN. INF. ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
WILLIAM D. SHASTEEN C.CO. 34TH. TN INF. C.S.A.
EACH SERVED OR DIED FOR HIS BELIEF IN FREEDOM AND LIBERTY
I SALUTE YOU ALL AND AS YOUR ANCESTOR ARE PROUD OF YOU AND WHAT YOU BELIEVED IN.
THE CIVIL WAR STARTED AS A FIGHT FOR SOUTHERN RIGHTS. AFTER THE FIRST YEAR OF WAR THE SOUTH HAD WON EVERY MAJOR BATTLE AND SYMPOTHY IN THE NORTH WAS LEANING TO GRANTING THE SOUTH IT'S FREEDOM. WHEN THE NORTHERN LEADERS REALIZED THIS THEY KNEW THEY HAD TO FIND A STRONG POINT FOR THE NORTHERN PEOPLE TO RALLY BEHIND. SO THEY THEN BROUGHT IN THE PRACTICE OF SLAVERY.
TO THE WINNERS GO THE SPOIL, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THIS NORTHERN WAR OF AGGRESSION, THE SLAVERY ISSUE WOULD HAVE BEEN FORGOTEN AND STATES RIGHTS WOULD BE REMEMBERED.
I BELIEVE IT IS OUR DUTY AS SON'S OF THE SOUTH TO KEEP OUR HERITAGE AND THE MEMORY OF OUR ANCESTORS ALIVE. BE PROUD THAT YOU ARE A REBEL.
I AM FROM DIXIE AND DAMN PROUD TO BE.
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