Confederate Colonel first went on-line in 2007. Here are the stated objectives:

Confederate Colonel Objectives

Our objectives are to promote, encourage, and defend:
• the code of the Southern Gentleman and Southern Lady as guidelines for daily living
• the customs and traditions of The Old South in our homes and in our daily lives
• the tradition of Southern hospitality and gracious living
• the culture, heritage, and symbols of The Old South
• the public display of Southern symbols in a proud and dignified manner

We recognize that the code of the Southern Gentleman is best exemplified in the life of Robert E. Lee and other great leaders of the Confederate States of America.

We define Southern Culture as being the best of the antebellum period of The South.

A Southern Gentleman is usually also a Christian Gentleman. Christianity can shape and mold a man into a Southern Gentleman, or a woman into a Southern Lady. Confederate Colonel is a Christian web site.

Our Culture • Our Heritage • Our Kinship

Next in line came the Southern Agrarian blog. It started out focusing on Southern Agrarianism as a life style but became more of a how-to blog about raising a garden and poultry in The South. Recognizing that I had drifted away from my intended objective, I started work on The New Southern Agrarian blog. It has just gotten started and is little more than a concept and a domain name at this point.

For blogs that exist as a money-making project, the “Which Way Now?” question is pretty straight-forward: do what is going to make money. That is not the objective however, since this is a “labor of love” and an expense rather than an income. I have a lot more latitude in what I write about.

Here are some of the thoughts that are being considered:

1. I would have preferred to not discuss historical issues, but I allowed myself to be drawn into it. Posts about slavery were a lightning rod that attracted some pretty vile comments (see the Hate Mail page for examples). Controversial topics about The South – especially about slavery – will be gone. I want to rise far above that level of discussion, so no more posts about it and no more replies about it.
2. I have probably tried to spread myself too thin with three different blogs. After all, I do have a wonderful family to enjoy, a business to run, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to serve, and various other organizations and causes that I support. For that reason, my plan is to combine the three into one.
3. Since Southern Agrarianism is a cultural phenomenon that includes all that Confederate Colonel was designed to cover, the end result will probably be called something with “Southern Agrarian” in the name (the ConfederateColonel.com domain name would still point to the new combined site).
4. I have become aware of  groups of people who practice an agrarian life style (note that “agrarian” covers a lot of ground, and does not mean subsistence-level farming – not even close). There is probably some good “cross pollination” that can be gained there. My hope is that I can help to pull together people from different groups and different areas with whatever we come up with here.
5. While Southern Agrarianism has been a cultural movement, a political movement, a literary movement, a philosophical movement, and an agricultural movement, it is probably best described today as a life style. That is where the focus will be (which was the original intent for Confederate Colonel).
6. On a more concrete note, I may be changing the overall look of the site to something more aesthetically attractive. I tend to be rather visually-oriented, so I hope to use a lot more photos to illustrate points and to perhaps inspire.

What are your thoughts? Where do we go from here? What specific topics would you like to see covered? Is there anything that you would like to see more of? What about the overall appearance of the site? Please use either the regular “Leave a Reply” or if you prefer, use the “Contact” feature to send an email that isn’t published.

Let me also use this opportunity to say “Thank You!” for reading what I write. Knowing that you have taken the time to read this blog is a very gratifying feeling, and I deeply appreciate it.

Contact Information: Please go to the Southern Agrarian blog for any contact needs.

While we’re on the topic of changes to Confederate Colonel, here’s a change that I wasn’t really going to formally “announce,” but I may as well…

The subject matter dealt with here on Confederate Colonel will, for the most part, steer clear of historical topics. I have allowed it to stray too far from the original idea of a blog about Southern culture and the Southern gentleman. I will be making a greater effort to adhere to the original intent.

Second, I want to let you know why I have not been posting much in the past few weeks. I have appointed to the position of Webmaster General in the Military Order of The Stars and Bars. We are just wrapping up the construction of a new web site, built from the ground up. There is a lot of information that needed to be transferred to the new site, and that involved many hours of work and emails and conference calls. The “go live” date is this Monday. I hope to return to a regular schedule of posting here around the beginning of the new year.

October 1, 2010 - 9:53 am

Here is the result of the drawing for the Warriors of Honor Giveaway. The number selected from the 13 posts is 8, which is Lee-Jackson and CSA Day Dinners, published on 09/17/2010. Unfortunately, there were no comments at all on this post, so the DVD will be donated to the church library of The Bible Baptist Church. It will get plenty of exposure there since we have a very large and well-organized home schooling group. Unlike many church libraries, ours could easily serve as a modest school library with a very wide variety of subjects. I have seen very few places that could match its collection of books on the War for Southern Independence. Our pastor is a voracious reader and regularly checks out used book stores.

Let me take this opportunity to again say what a great DVD Warriors of Honor is. It deserves a place in the home of every true Southerner. It deserves a place in every church library. It deserves a place in every public library and every school library. We know, of course, that it would never survive in the public or school libraries – it would quickly be destroyed or stolen by the cultural Marxists who now control much of this country. That really doesn’t matter to us though, and it shows just how great the need really is. This is a powerful tool to tell our story, and we need to do all we can to make full use of it. The banner ad on this site will remain there, and I will be taking every opportunity to promote Warriors of Honor. I hope you will too.

I will have to say here that I am rather disappointed in the poor response to this giveaway, and I am embarrassed that this DVD that was so graciously donated to us for this giveaway did not receive greater exposure here. Of the 13 posts during the month of September, only 4 had any comments at all.  I also need to say that this disappointment and embarrassment is on me alone. I need to do more to increase the exposure of the Confederate Colonel project. No matter what we have available here, it won’t matter if people don’t know it is here and don’t read it. I understand that the number of us who still cherish and revere our Southern heritage and culture is very small. I understand that there are large and powerful cultural forces that work at destroying what little there is left of traditional Southern culture. My sincere thanks to those who remain true to our rich Southern heritage – you truly are a blessing to me.

I am wide open to suggestions and recommendations for ways to build on what we have. If you have any thoughts, please either add a comment to this post or use the Contact link if you think that would be more appropriate.