Remembrances for June - 2026

 

Dear friends, if you have time, please pray for these members of the Southern family on the day they reposed.  Many thanks.

But one may ask:  ‘What good does it do to pray for the departed?’  An answer is offered here:

https://orthochristian.com/130608.html

Along with prayers and hymns for the departed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6je5axPodI

June 3^rd

Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee Confederate Memorial Day

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/confederate-memorials-speaking-to-posterity/

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/leave-confederate-statues-alone/

June 4^th

Governor Esteban Miro

Spanish Governor of Louisiana (1785-1791).  He gave the colony good Christian laws and oversaw the rebuilding of New Orleans after the 1788 Good Friday fire.  He left Louisiana to become a general in the Spanish Army ‘to the great regret of its whole community’.

http://www.storyvilledistrictnola.com/governors.html#namespanish

June 5^th

Kate Cumming

‘Best known for her dedicated service to sick and wounded Confederate soldiers. She spent much of the latter half of the Civil War (1861-65) as a nurse in hospitals throughout Georgia.’

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/kate-cumming-ca-1830-1909

https://library.uab.edu/locations/reynolds/collections/civil-war/medical-figures/kate-cumming

https://greatappalachianorthodox.wordpress.com/2021/06/10/the-bookshelf-part-1/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10538942/kate-cumming/photo

June 6^th

General Turner Ashby

One of Dixie’s best cavalry leaders during the War, though not without his weaknesses (he was a bit undisciplined).

https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.php?b=Ashby_Turner

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8336/turner-ashby

June 6^th

Patrick Henry

The famed Virginia orator (‘Give me liberty, or give me death!’), he served as Virginia’s first post-British governor, but later in life turned down many offers of powerful political office in favor of private life.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/472/patrick-henry

June 8^th

President Andrew Jackson

A bit of a mixed bag as President, although he did fight manfully against the national banking cartel.

https://thehermitage.com/andrew-jackson-and-the-bank-war/

June 8^th

Reverend Frank Stringfellow

One of the most daring and successful spies for the Confederate States during the war; afterwards he married and became an Episcopal priest.

https://mymartinsville.com/frank-stringfellow.php

https://www.alexandriava.gov/historic-alexandria/basic-page/emma-green-and-frank-stringfellow-alexandrias-civil-war-sweethearts

June 9^th

The Synaxis of Banned Confederates

A celebration of the 11 Confederates whose names were unceremoniously removed from bases, etc., of the uS armed forces.  The names of these 11 are given here:

https://www.reckonin.com/walt-garlington/the-synaxis-of-banned-confederates

June 11^th

Louis de St Denis

An early French explorer of Louisiana who helped found the city of Natchitoches, the oldest settlement in Louisiana.  He also had some adventures and romance in the Spanish territories to the west and south, where he married Manuela, the granddaughter of the Spanish Commandant.

http://www.offms.org/ancestors/louis_st_denis.html

June 11^th

William Gilmore Simms

A key figure in the development of a specifically Southern literary culture.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/william-gilmore-simms/

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/william-gilmore-simmss-place-in-american-literature-by-sean-busick/

https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/William_Gilmore_Simms#Publications

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5041827/william-gilmore-simms

June 13^th

Douglas Southall Freeman

An excellent historian and journalist.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Douglas-Southall-Freeman

June 13^th

Cormac McCarthy

One of the most recent of Dixie’s famed novelists.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cormac-McCarthy

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/americas-prophet/

June 14^th

General Leonidas Polk

The ‘Fighting Bishop’ of Louisiana in the War.

https://confiterijournal.blogspot.com/2012/04/general-leonidas-polk-fighting-bishop.html

June 16^th

DuBose Heyward

A key part of the Southern Literary Renaissance in the early 20^th century in Charleston, most remembered for ‘Porgy and Bess’.

https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/heyward-dubose/

June 21^st

Captain John Smith

A military adventurer early in life, he was also a key figure in the settlement of Virginia.

https://historicjamestowne.org/history/pocahontas/john-smith/

June 23^rd

Reverend John Girardeau

A fine pastor who labored much in the vineyard of the South’s slave population.

http://www.pcahistory.org/HCLibrary/periodicals/spr/bios/girardeau.html

June 24^th

Laura Talbot Galt Hyatt

As a school girl, she was reprimanded for refusing to sing in honor of the Yankees and their barbaric actions during the War.  May her spirit live in all Southern hearts.

https://identitydixie.com/2025/01/10/in-memoriam-laura-talbot-galt/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81825738/laura-talbot-hyatt

June 29^th

Nathaniel Macon

A praiseworthy son of North Carolina; a States’s Rights champion and old republican.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/nathaniel-macon-the-forgotten-prophet-of-states-rights/

https://www.ncgenweb.us/ncstate/plantations/buck-spring_warren.htm

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/the-life-of-an-old-republican/

June 30^th

James Oglethorpe

The founder of Georgia.  His original altruistic vision for the colony didn’t quite work out, but he is nonetheless a man of talent, vision, and good character.

http://www.ourgeorgiahistory.com/people/oglethorpe.html

Also, to celebrate some of the saints of June from the South’s Christian inheritance of various lands, follow these links:

https://southernorthodox.org/orthodox-saints-for-dixie-june/

https://confiterijournal.blogspot.com/2020/06/happy-feast-for-saints-of-june.html

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

‘Remembering Who I Am’

 

Trying to make my way in the world –

Dealing with daily cares,

Inundated with news

From faraway lands –

I become scattered, forgetful.

‘Who am I?’ I ask.

And the question repeats itself.

Under the hot summer sun

In Sorghum Corner, I remember.

Beneath the shade trees,

Beside the placid water of the pond,

Eating a plate of slaw and watermelon, I remember.

With cousins big and small,

A baby with pretty pink cheeks,

A bigger one keeping the power grid up, I remember.

 . . .

The rest is at https://www.reckonin.com/walt-garlington/remembering-who-i-am-poetry.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

‘Christian Establishment or Hail Satan?’

 

Louisiana’s law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in public school classrooms hit its latest obstacle, a panel of federal judges at the Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals:

‘A three-judge panel at the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a lower court’s ruling that Louisiana’s law requiring the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school classroom is unconstitutional.

‘Loyola University New Orleans law professor Dane Ciolino says the ruling should come as no surprise.

‘“The United States Supreme Court in 1980 ruled that it was unconstitutional to post or require the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools. That violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment,” says Ciolino’ (Andrew Greenstein, ‘5th Circuit Panel: Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is unconstitutional,’ louisianaradionetwork.com).

As we have been saying, the First Amendment of the Philadelphia charter has no bearing on religious settlements that States and local communities adopt for themselves.  But let us accept for the sake of argument that this view of the First Amendment is correct, that State and local governments must have an absolute neutrality toward religion, neither approving nor disapproving any of them.  What would be the result of that?  Would it really lead to a healthy society?  Minnesota gives us a definitive answer, and the answer is No, it does not lead to healthy society.

‘The Minnesota Capitol has displayed a plaque thanking Governor Tim Walz for allowing the promotion of Satanism at the building which reads, “Satan has a special place for you.”

‘“The Democratic Coalition of Satan Worshippers thanks Gov. Tim Walz for not standing in the way of spreading Satanism at the State Capitol Building. Satan has a special place for you,” read a plaque displayed upon a table in the lower-level East Hall of the Minnesota State Capitol, as shown by video footage from state Representative Pam Altendorf.

‘ . . . The plaque thanked Walz for allowing a satanic display in the State Capitol last year featuring an upside-down pentagram, a phoenix, and a “prayer” card with the words “You Are Your Own God” printed on it.

‘The satanic non-profit group called Cerberus Ministries was granted a permit by the Minnesota Department of Administration to install its display from December 13 through December 27. The department said it could not deny the group’s request because it is “protected speech” under the First Amendment.

‘At the time, Walz’s office stated, “The Governor does not agree with the display and did not approve it. But the First Amendment means that he does not police speech in the State Capitol. That’s true whether it’s a religious display, a political protest, or a Minnesotan advocating for a policy”’ (Emily Mangiaracina, ‘LOOK: Minnesota Capitol displayed satanist ‘thank you’ plaque for Gov. Tim Walz,’ lifesitenews.com).

There was a time, prior to the cultural revolution of the 1960s and the mass immigration from non-European, non-Christian countries that began about that same time, when religious neutrality implied the broad unofficial acceptance of a Christian culture, with the understanding that no denomination would be elevated above another in an official way.  That no longer applies to the time in which we live.

The enemies of Christianity are now exploiting the language adopted to foster goodwill amongst Christian communities (free exercise of religion, free speech, etc.) to undermine those same communities – every last one of them.  It is time the Christians in Louisiana and the other States woke up from their slumber and took appropriate action.

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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2025/06/garlington-christian-establishment-or-hail-satan/.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!