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By Walt Garlington
Dear friends, if you have time, please pray for these members of the Southern family on the day they reposed. Many thanks.
Nov. 5th
Carrie Tuggle, a person of unique strengths. She excelled in the areas of education, social work, and religion.
http://www.awhf.org/tuggle.html
Nov. 9th
Pierre Laffite, the gentlemanly, rascally pirate of Barataria Bay, Louisiana. He and his brother Jean are well-known for their role in the Battle of New Orleans and other acts of mischief. Quintessential lovable rogues. New Orleans’s Grace King gives details of their life:
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Louisiana/New_Orleans/_Texts/KINPAP/10*.html
Nov. 10th
Lott Carey and Colin Teague: Both were slaves in Virginia who purchased their freedom and then became missionaries in West Africa.
https://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1701-1800/lott-carey-11630295.html
https://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/t-u-v/teague-colin-collin-teage-c-1780-1839/
Nov. 12th
Synaxis of the 12 Southerners of “I’ll Take My Stand.” In celebration of the original publication of this noteworthy book on Nov. 12, 1930, we remember and pray for the contributors to it: Donald Davidson, John Gould Fletcher, Henry Blue Kline, Lyle H. Lanier, Stark Young, Allen Tate, Andrew Nelson Lytle, Herman Clarence Nixon, Frank Lawrence Owsley, John Crowe Ransom, John Donald Wade, and Robert Penn Warren.
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/remembering-the-right/remembering-the-southern-agrarians/
https://www.vqronline.org/essay/i%E2%80%99ll-take-my-stand-relevance-agrarian-vision
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/reflections-of-a-ghost-an-agrarian-view-after-fifty-years/
https://southernorthodox.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/A-Feudal-Society-Without-a-Feudal-Religion-udpated.pdf
I believe the above image is what “I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition by 12 Southerners” looked like when it was originally published in 1930. There have been other editions since then; the 1962 and 1978 editions are pretty easily available through various online booksellers, with the most recent 2006 print being the easiest and typically least expensive to obtain. However, with those newer editions come modern introductions, so if you don’t already own this indispensable manifesto, shop wisely, rebels. – DM
Nov. 14th
Booker T. Washington, a prominent leader in the postbellum South.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/booker-washingtons-bucket/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1073/booker-taliaferro-washington
Nov. 15th
Ambrose D. Mann, a colorful character who worked in the Confederacy’s diplomatic corps.
http://www.chab-belgium.com/pdf/english/Mann.pdf
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74906039/ambrose-dudley-mann
Roy Clark, a talented musician and comedian, perhaps best known for his work on the TV show “Hee Haw.”
https://countrymusichalloffame.org/artist/roy-clark/
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/what-country-legend-roy-clarks-death-symbolizes-for-america-in-2018/
Nov. 20th
John Lejeune, a Cajun fellow who had a big impact on the uS Marine Corps.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/review/the-greatest-of-all-leathernecks/
Nov. 22nd
Mary Boykin Chesnut [seen on right of the feature image at top] was an author and diarist. Her famous epic, sometimes called “A Diary from Dixie” and sometimes called “Mary Chesnut’s Civil War,” is “generally acknowledged today as the finest literary work of the Confederacy. Spiced by the author’s sharp intelligence, irreverent wit, and keen sense of irony and metaphorical vision,” it’s valued as an “accurate picture of the South in civil war” and “a rich historical source.” – DM [Chestnut’s photo is on the right of the feature image at top.]
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/mary-boykin-chesnut-as-novelist/
https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/chesnut/bio.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8574/mary-boykin-chesnut
Nov. 23rd
Louisa McCord [seen on left of the feature image at top] was a Southern intellectual who “wrote against abolitionists, feminists, and socialists. As a thinker, McCord was conservative and classical” and was “the author of a number of forceful essays on political economy and social issues,” as well as poetry, reviews and a blank verse drama” and a translation of a book written by Frederic Bastiat. In her famous diary mentioned above, Mary Chesnut called McCord “the very cleverest woman” she knew. – DM
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/a-lady-champion-of-free-trade/
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/the-political-economy-and-social-thought-of-louisa-s-mccord/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9685397/louisa-susanna-mccord
Marion Montgomery, a versatile poet, novelist, and literary critic, he taught composition, literature, and creative writing at the University of Georgia for 33 years.
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/marion-montgomery-1925-2011
Nov. 24th
John William Corrington, another notable recent Southern author, hailing from northwest Louisiana, one who unapologetically loved his Southern roots.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/john-william-corrington-and-southern-conservatism/
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/the-better-men/
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/john-william-corrington-a-literary-conservative/
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/are-southerners-different/
Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are! Anathema to the Union!
♱ St. Cecilia and Those Martyred with Her at Rome (+2nd-3rd century), 22 November/5 December
St. Cecilia was a member of an important Roman patrician family, who had vowed perpetual virginity to God. Her parents married her to a pagan, St. Valerian (14th April), whom St. Cecilia not only convinced to respect her virginity, but converted him to Christianity as well. Soon after Valerian’s brother, St. Tiburtius was baptised, and the two brothers then dedicated their lives to giving proper burials to Christian martyrs. This resulted in their arrest and martyrdom. St. Cecilia buried them at her villa, for which she was arrested, ordered to perform pagan sacrifices, and when she refused was beheaded. St. Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians.
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