 There are many things that anger and frustrate us that the Federal Leviathan government does. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 has been one that has really angered and frustrated me the most in recent times. This behemoth act passed by the U.S. Congress over President Trump’s veto created the nasty Naming Commission that is attempting to erase our history by renaming military bases and other resources. Why do they have to be renamed? Because they are named after and honor Confederates. This evil and vindictive act is even going after the beautiful Confederate grave monument in Arlington Cemetery. All of this of course is driven by the nation’s obsession with race and the overreaction to the death of a criminal in Minneapolis during 2020. One of the changes brought about by the Naming Commission is the switching of the name of a naval missile cruiser. The cruiser had been named the USS Chancellorsville and is now named the USS Robert Smalls by the commission. This cruiser was built and launched at the end of President Ronald Reagan’s time in office. It is amazing how things have devolved in just 35 years. Our government went from honoring both sides in the War Between the States to treating one side as if they are the greatest evil. This comes from our racially obsessed culture, and our increasingly ignorant and apathetic society. The new name of the vessel, Robert Smalls, illustrates how ignorant our modern society is. It shows how they think that the war was a war about slavery. For them, Smalls represents the escaped slave fighting against the evil slave empire of the South. In the spirit of nullification, I personally will always refer to these bases, vessels, etc. by their original Confederate names, as I suggest we all should do. I got to thinking about the original name of this vessel Chancellorsville. Chancellorsville would be something the Federal government would want to attempt to erase from history. This battle confirms the truth that the South had better generals, better fighting men, and should have won the War Between the States. Chancellorsville is the greatest American battle achievement, in my opinion. In the spring of 1863 General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was at half strength, as General Longstreet’s wing was in southeastern Virginia gathering supplies and distracting a Northern army. General Lee, and his greatest corps commander General Stonewall Jackson, faced General Joseph Hooker’s immense Army of the Potomac. Hooker had drastically increased the size of the Northern army, improved morale, and created a new intelligence force that actually knew what it was doing. All things seemed to point to some trouble for General Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. Armed with a great battle plan and over two times the numbers as Lee, Hooker crossed most of his force over the Rappahannock and Rapidan Rivers landing on Lee’s flank or side. What did Lee and Stonewall Jackson do? They divided their force twice. They left two small portions of the army to hold Hooker’s forces in place while Jackson took the largest portion on an incredible flanking march around Hooker’s right wing. The rest is history. Stonewall Jackson’s force surprised, crushed, and rolled up the entire right side of Hooker’s army. It was a rout. However, Chancellorsville was certainly bittersweet. The Confederates took incredible casualties in the victory and Stonewall Jackson was killed during the night of the first day of the battle, shot accidentally by his own men. I believe his death and the Northern blockade were the two real reasons for Southern defeat in the War Between the States. Jackson always carried out his and General Lee’s battle plans effectively. If you truly study the war up until and including the Battle of Chancellorsville, especially the Eastern Theater of fighting, you see that the South was going to drive the North to sue for peace in 1863 or 1864. If General Jackson had survived Chancellorsville, the summer of 1863 certainly would have had a different outcome. This is perhaps why the Federal government wants to erase Chancellorsville. If you read about and study the battle you can truly see what the Confederates were capable of. You can see that it was a Lost Cause, as the better generals and armies did eventually lose to overwhelming resources and bad luck. Conversely, the Battle of Chancellorsville also showed how ineptly lead and poor the Northern forces fought. To have over double the size in an army and still get routed is embarrassing to say the least. What we must do is educate our current and future generations as best we can about the truth. We can carry on the victory at Chancellorsville with future victories over the Federal Leviathan in this education and more. We do not have to honor or follow their name changes.
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