Confederate Heritage Month: David Strother
April is #ConfederateHeritageMonth. To remind neo-Confederates and Lost Cause assclowns what their heritage is, this page is executing a daily series throughout this entire month, commemorating anniversary events and honoring Southerners who remained loyal to the United States. If you're just coming across this post, make sure to follow the page as we'll be upsetting neo-Confederates and Lost Cause bigots all month long.
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David Hunter Strother was born September 26, 1816 in Martinsburg, Virginia. He would go on to be a famous journalist, artist, brevet Brigadier General, innkeeper, politician and diplomat. He was also a successful magazine illustrator and writer, known by “Porte Crayon”, his pseudonym.
As a young man, his goal was to be accepted at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He studied at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, but was never able to secure a position at West Point. He helped his father operate a 400-guest hotel at Berkeley Springs during the busy season, at a time when it was the only spa accessible by rail in the mid-Atlantic. During the off-season he traveled.
He gained fame as illustrator and author of a series of articles that appeared in Harper's Monthly magazine. He enlisted in the Union Army and rose to the rank of brevet Brigadier General of Volunteers. After the war, he restructured the Virginia Military Institute and served as U.S. Consul in Mexico.
Strother died March 8, 1888 in Charles Town. The New York Times stated in his obituary that his pen name “Porte Crayon” was a household name during the peak years of his career. He is buried in Green Hill Cemetery in Martinsburg, a cemetery which, interestingly enough, he designed.
Crowdfunding Campaign: https://igg.me/at/SonsOfLibertyCivilWarProject
Through the month of April, the Sons of Liberty is running a crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo to create a year-long web-series on Civil War History. We have over eighty-thousand subscribers on YouTube alone, so if just ten percent of them gave five dollars each, we'd be well past our funding goal. Funding this campaign means that the Sons of Liberty admins get to take you on an exciting historical journey and, at the same time, help educate or debunk, depending, various bits of Civil War history, myths, legends, and lies.
Reminder that the Confederacy were traitors who betrayed the United States and tried to destroy the union out of spite. Reminder that "heritage not hate" is Lost Cause horse shit. Reminder that the Lost Cause narrative is revisionist history bullshit. Reminder that the South seceded over slavery and economic factors tied to slavery. Also another reminder that the Confederacy is a bunch of traitors who LOST, got their asses KICKED, and were forced to BEG to be readmitted into the Union.
PS: your flag is a participation trophy. Die mad about it. #NotSorryNotSorry
