Calvin E. Johnson Jr.
A native of Georgia, Calvin Johnson, Chairman of the National and Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Confederate Veterans Confederate History and Heritage Month Program
He is the author of the book “When America Stood for God, Family and Country.”
Most Recent Articles by Calvin E. Johnson Jr.:
191st Birthday Tribute to General Forrest
July 13, 2012
God Bless America and Have a Dixie Day!
Remembering the Gettysburg Reunion of 1913
July 4, 2012
War between the States
Our founding Fathers believed in the sovereignty of the states and so did Jefferson Davis.
Arlington National Cemetery—A Memorial Day Tribute
May 27, 2012
An Obedience To Duty As They Understood It; These Men Suffered All; Sacrificed All and Died!
Confederate Constitution on Display April 26th at UGA
April 26, 2012
Confederate Memorial Day falls during the month of April in the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas and…
Confederate Memorial Day in Dixie
April 24, 2012
Confederate History and Heritage Month
150 Anniversary of America’s Great Locomotive Chase
April 12, 2012
The General, The Texas
Confederate History Month commemorates the men and women of the Confederate States of America who came from all races and religions
Gen. Patrick Cleburne—The Fighting Irishman
March 16, 2012
"If this cause, that is dear to my heart, is doomed to fail, I pray heaven may let me fall with it, my face is toward the enemy and my arm battling for that which I know is right.”
Celebrating Black History Month in the South
February 26, 2012
Black Confederates
I’d Climb the Highest Mountain
February 17, 2012
Susan Hayward, William Lundigan, Rory Calhoun, Gene Lockhart
Remembering John B. Gordon’s 180th Birthday
February 6, 2012
Teach your children the whole story of America
A Southern Black History Month Moment
February 4, 2012
Jim Limber Davis
Robert E. Lee: Remembering an American Legend
January 15, 2012
Lee was the noblest American who had ever lived and one of the greatest commanders known to the annals of war
A Soldier’s True Spirit of Christmas
December 20, 2011
Bill and Thomas Yopp
When ‘Gone with the Wind’ premiered in Atlanta
December 10, 2011
"Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind"
A Veterans Day Remembrance
November 8, 2011
Armistice Day
Love Me Tender Premiered in New York
November 5, 2011
Elvis Presley, King of Rock and Roll,
141st Anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s death
October 10, 2011
Do Americans know more about Fidel Castro and Che Guevara then they do about George Washington and Robert E. Lee?
A Hispanic Month Tribute to Moses Ezekiel
October 7, 2011
The death of Moses Ezekiel, the distinguished and greatly loved American sculptor
Football, Cheerleaders and the Band Played Dixie
September 4, 2011
Dixie is a song for all people of all races and backgrounds. Let the band play Dixie!
When Rucker called the roll — A Soldier’s Story
July 30, 2011
Black soldier who loved the flag of Dixie
The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913
July 3, 2011
150th “Sesquicentennial” Anniversary of the War Between the States
June 4, 1914 Dedication of Arlington Monument
June 4, 2011
"An Obedience To Duty As They Understood it; These Men Suffered All; Sacrificed All and Died!"
Memorial Day farewell to Jefferson Davis
May 29, 2011
150th Anniversary “Sesquicentennial” of the War Between the States
Confederate Memorial Day
April 25, 2011
Tuesday, April 26th
Old Times not forgotten in Dixie
April 24, 2011
Sesquicentennial--150th Anniversary of the War Between the States
America’s Great Locomotive Chase Story
April 11, 2011
America’s most famous locomotive "The General" is home at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw, Georgia
General Forrest License Plate in Mississippi
February 24, 2011
Mississippi Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans, 150th anniversary of the "War Between the States"
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