Confederate Memorial Tartan

[macwilkin]

At the risk of raising General Lee's ghost, I'm sorry, but to me it looks like a poor man's "Mc Tablecloth", and a bit dowdy at that....
I would expect something a bit more proudly stubborn from Dixie.

The tartan's colours stand for the three major branches of service (artillery, cavalry and infantry) in the Confederate Army, plus the grey, which stands for the "standard" uniform of Southern forces (although just as many of them, if not more, wore "Butternut").

While I respect your right to your opinion, referring to a tartan with such symbolism to some as "McTablecloth" rubs me the wrong way. Two of my wife's ancestors served with Louisiana regiments during the Civil War, and even though I would never wear this tartan, I still respect the meaning behind it.

Regards,

Todd

[gilmore]

A necktie in Confederate memorial tartan is on sale on Ebay just now at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=280307730783

Just in time for Confederate Memorial Day, April 26 in Georgia and Florida, the fourth Monday in April in Alabama, last Monday in April in Mississippi, May 10 in North and South Carolina, June 3 in Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee, last Monday in May in Virginia, and January 19 in Arkansas and Texas.

"It is a matter of history that Mrs. Chas. J. Williams, of Columbus, Ga., instituted the custom of decorating soldiers' graves with flowers, a custom which has been adopted throughout the United States...In March, 1868, she addressed a communication to the Columbus Times, an extract of which is, 'We beg the assistance of the press and the ladies throughout the South to aid us in the effort to set apart a certain day to be observed from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, and to be handed down through time as a religious custom of the South, to wreathe the graves of our martyred dead with flowers, and we propose the 26th day of April as the day.' "

[saharris]

I like it! I also graduated from the Virginia Military Institute, which has a tartan of her own (which doesn't do it for me):

Virginia Military Institute Confederate Memorial