Books

  • Favorite Books: All books on the Civil War excepting romance novels ( yuck!)
  • Favorite Authors: Bruce Catton, Burke Davis,
  • Favorite Characters: In books, all honest, upright, chivalrous gentlemen; all gentle, humble, honest ladies.
  • Favorite Quotes: "Duty is ours, consequences are God's" ~CSA Lieutenant-General Stonewall Jackson. "You cannot trust a man to control others if he cannot control himself" ~CSA General Robert E. Lee "Form platoons! Draw saber! Charge!" ~CSA Major-General J.E.B. Stuart's standard cavalry order. "Up men, and to your posts! Let no man forget today that he is from Old Virginia!"~CSA Major-General George Pickett "Charge men, and yell like furies!" ~CSA Lieutenant-General Stonewall Jackson at First Manassas. "I've got no respect for a man who won't join the colors." CSA Lieutenant-General Nathan B. Forrest
  • Recent Reads: Mosby's Rangers-about the partisian rangers of Colonel John Hunt Mosby

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Gods and Generals, Gettysburg, the Blue and the Gray, Shenandoah, the Santa Fe Trail, Gone with the Wind, Drums from the Deep South, The Great Locomotive Chase
  • Favorite Actors: Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall, Olivia De Haviland
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Gettysburg and Gods and Generals
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: "Fiddle dee dee!" ~Scarlett "We wouldn't let a king in England tell us what to do and we are not about the let some president in Washington tell us what to do!" ~Confederate soldier "Just as we would not send our troops into another country and tyrannize their people, so will we never let them come in and tyrannize our people!" Stonewall Jackson "My country, Mr. Blair? I never thought I'd live to see the President of the United States invade his own Country!" ~Robert E. Lee "In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the first brigade. In the Army of the Potomac, you were the first brigade. In the second corps of this army, you are the first brigade! You are the first brigade in the affections of your general, and I hope by future deeds and bearing you will be handed down to posterity as the First Brigade in this our Second War in Independence!" ~Stonewall Jackson "Note that I will tell my men to gallop toward the enemy and trot away!" ~Jeb Stuart "We should raise at once the black flag! No quarter to the violaters of our homes and firesides!" Stonewall Jackson "Up men, and to your posts! Let no man forget today that he is from Old Virginia!" ~George Pickett "For our homes and firesides, ( which is Pro Aris Et Focis ) for our wives for our sweethearts, for Virginia!" Lewis Armistead. Can't think of any more favorite movie quotes right now...
  • Movies I can watch over and over: All of my favorite movies, but especially Gods and Generals, for some reason.

Music

  • Favorite Songs: All Confederate and Southern songs, Fiddle and ESPECIALLY Irish music, all the beautiful Christmas hymns, fife and drum music, and Civil War music.
  • Favorite Lyrics: The words to Maryland, my Maryland, Rock of Ages, How Firm a Foundation
  • Songs I hate: Yankee songs, and especially Battle hymn of the Rebublic-you know, "mine eyes have seen the glory..." *Did you know that Julia Ward Howe, the writer of that song, and a strong feminist and that her husband supported John Brown and his bloody raid?*
  • Songs I repeat the most: Bonnie Blue Flag, Dixie, Homespun Dress, Shenandoah, God rest ye, merry Gentlemen, Rock of Ages, What Child is This, Amazing Grace, God of Our Fathers,

More About Me

  • Nationality: Irish, Scotch/Welsh, German, English, Finnish,
  • Heroes: My parents, Stonewall Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart, Robert E. Lee,
  • Interests: the Bible, Civil War reenacting, sewing, cooking, drawing, playing fiddle, being a good housekeeper, reading
  • Occupation: seamstress, artist, fiddle player, teacher, and my father's daughter (until someday if/when I get ma

Travel

  • Places I love: The South, but especially Virginia
  • Places I've been: South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Florida, Virginia, Kansas, Missouri, North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, and some Yankee states

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    • Name: ProArisEtFocis
    • Birthday: 12/28/1987
    • Gender: Female
    • Member Since: 5/14/2006