Rob's Historic Sites

You too can be buried in a Confederate cemetery! This is the Confederate Cemetery in Alvin, Texas, established in the 1890s by the John A. Wharton Camp of the United Confederate Veterans (U.C.V.) as a burial ground exclusively for Confederate veterans and their families, but it was later expanded for public use. The Confederate Cemetery is the official name for the entire cemetery although perhaps 99% of the +5,000 burials are non-Confederate. (photos from 2 separate visits: 1st time: May 28, 2019, 2nd time: June 27, 2023) The cemetery that had begun as a small plot for Confederate Veterans and their families now spans approximately 15 acres, with land purchased to expand the Confederate Cemetery in 1898, 1903, and 1927. It is well-maintained with a full-time caretaker and contains the graves of about 40 Confederate veterans, as well as veterans of four wars (including the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II), victims of the 1900 Galveston hurricane, and prominent ...

MAJOR NEWS! Over 700 unmarked Confederate graves were likely just found/identified here on this inaccessible city property that serves as a natural gas booster and storage facility in Richmond, Virginia. Here's a video I took of the cemetery site March 2023. (links to news articles are below and in the comment section). The only marker is a stone marker placed there in 1939 by the UDC that honors the "more than 100 Confederate solders" buried there. Nobody suspected so many more graves there! Most of the records of the burials had been lost and any trace of grave markers dissapeared perhaps over a century ago. News Links: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hundreds-of-confederate-soldiers-others-likely-buried-under-city-property-in-richmond-s-manchester/ar-AA1FO25w?ocid=BingNewsSerp https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/virginia-capital-likely-has-742-unmarked-graves-some-of-confederate-soldiers-study-finds/ar-AA1FOlwj?ocid=BingNewsSerp - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...

NEVER FORGET!!! Visiting the remnants of the John C. Calhoun Monument shortly after the Maoists destroyed it in Talibanesque fashion in Charleston, South Carolina! (see video in comment section). This base was removed shortly after these photos were taken on Sept 25, 2020. This beautiful monument was a 115-foot-tall monument in Charleston, South Carolina’s Marion Square with a statue depicting John C. Calhoun on top. Erected in 1896 by the Ladies’ Calhoun Monument Association (LCMA) after decades of fundraising, the monument was the pride of the city for well over a century. On June 23, 2020, Charleston City Council voted to remove the statue. The pedestal/column was actually toppled and came crashing down on June 24, 2020. The statue’s current location is undisclosed, with no museum, including the Charleston Museum, agreeing to house it as of October 2020. In 2022, the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia discussed an “extended loan agreement” to store and contextualize it,...

Salute! NEVER FORGET! This Warwick County Confederate Memorial (redesignated as a memorial to ALL VETERANS) in Newport News, Virginia was removed in 2020 and remains in storage to this day! (photos I took March 2019). It had stood in front of the 1884 Warwick County Courthouse for over a century and was considered the most important war memorial in the city. Having been rededicated "In Honor of our Brave Warwick County Veterans" in 2009, this +20-foot granite obelisk had been erected in 1909 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to honor locals who honorably answered the call to serve and who had died while in service to their country as Confederate soldiers. The monument bore the inscription; "Unveiled May 27, 1909 to our Gallant Soldiers of the Confederacy, Warwick County." (photos taken March 3, 2019) Following George Floyd protests, on July 7, 2020, the Newport News City Council voted 6-1 to remove it. The monument was removed on October 21, 202...

This is another reason why the War is called, "The War of Nothern Aggression" or "Lincoln's War on Americans". This is one of the many American towns that were not only plundered and ransacked, but also burned. The Burning of Bluffton, South Carolina, occurred on June 4, 1863 as part of a Union operation known as the Bluffton Expedition. Bluffton, a small town on the May River in Beaufort County, was notably tied to the 1844 Bluffton Movement, which advocated for South Carolina’s secession over federal tariffs. Under orders from infamous Maj General David Hunter who had a reputation for extreme brutality and abolitionist extremist, approximately 1,000 Union troops, led by Colonel William Barton, landed near Bluffton. Union troops set fire to Bluffton, destroying about two-thirds of its estimated 60 structures, including 40 homes, businesses, and public buildings. The blaze was so intense that smoke clouds lingered into the next day, marking the end of Blufft...

This is the Mills County Courthouse and Confederate Memorial, located on the courthouse square in Goldthwaite, Texas. The monument was erected in 1915 to commemorate and memorialize residents who served in the Confederate States Army during the War Between the States (1861–1865). Funded by public donations, the Self Culture Club, Jeff Davis Camp 117, and the United Confederate Veterans, the monument features a Confederate soldier statue on a column and lists the names and units of Confederate veterans. The monument is situated near the Mills County Courthouse, a Classical Revival building completed in 1913 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (photos taken May 26, 2019) The courthouse grounds have historical significance, notably hosting the 1905 Confederate Reunion, the county’s largest public gathering. In 2020, the square drew attention when locals guarded the Confederate monument amid rumored protest threats. Goldthwaite, Texas, is a small city and the count...