We testify to the country our enduring fidelity to their memory.
We commemorate their valor and devotion.
There were some things that were not surrendered at Appomatox.
We did not surrender our rights in history, nor was it one of the
conditions of surrender that unfriendly lips should be suffered
to tell the story of that war or that unfriendly hands should write
the epitaphs of our Confederate dead.
We have a right to teach our children the true history of that war,
the causes that led up to it, and the principles involved."
Senator Edward W. Carmack, 1903
