Olustee Festival

photograph by Victoria Dorsey - used with permission

Annual Reenactment of the
Battle of Olustee or Ocean Pond
Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park, Florida

February 15-17, 2013

Admission:
Adults - $7; Seniors (62+) - $5; Active Duty Military, Reservists and National Guard with ID - FREE;
Children - $5; Pre-school age children - FREE

Questions, on matters not answered below, concerning the Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park
or the annual reenactment should be directed to: olusteecso@yahoo.com .

A pre-recorded message, listing park hours and events, is available at (386) 758-0400 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (386) 758-0400 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

A toll-free number for information is also available at 1-877-635-3655 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 1-877-635-3655 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

• History of the Battle of Olustee
• Battle of Olustee Booklets, Map, Post Cards and Video Available
• Printable Event Poster - 2013
• Schedule of Events - 2013
• Numerous Civil War speakers and authors scheduled for presentations under the 9,000 square foot Ball Tent!
• Where is it?
• What will the weather be like? - Get a second opinion.
• The Authentic Spectator - Advice for the non-reenactor coming to the Battle of Olustee.
• Reminiscenes by Mary Fears
• Reenactor Information and Applications
  • Protect yourself! Make your mark at the Registration Tent.
  • General Information - READ FIRST! - 2013 (PDF)
  • Unit Commanders' Letter - 2013
  • Reenactment Regulations - 2013 (PDF)
  • Medical Information and Authorization Form for Minors - 2013 (PDF)
  • Artillery Application Form - 2013 (PDF)
  • Cavalry Application Form - 2013 (PDF)
  • Infantry Application Form - 2013 (PDF)
  • Medical Application Form - 2013 (PDF)
  • Guidelines for Federal Field Musician Reenactors
• Educational Exhibitors and Authors - Deadline for submission is 1 January 2013
  • Complete Author Application Package - for 2013 (PDF)
  • Complete Educational Exhibitor Application Package - for 2013 (PDF)
• Sponsoring Organizations:
  • Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park Citizens Support Organization
  • Florida Department of Environmental Protection - Recreation and Parks
    • Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park - Key West - another Florida Civil War Park
    • Natural Bridge Battlefield Historic State Park - another Florida Civil War Park
  • USDA Forest Service - Osceola National Forest
  • The Blue-Grey Army, Inc.
• Motels, Non-reenactor Camping and Restaurants: The Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park is located in Baker County, Florida, just east of the Columbia County line. Lake City, in Columbia County, is the closest city with significant tourist facilities. Rooms usually are booked early due to the Lake City Olustee Festival which, although it is a separate event, is held on the same weekend as the Battle of Olustee Reenactment.
  • Where to stay and eat in Baker County
  • Where to stay and eat in Columbia County

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Circle Cross Cowboy Church presents...Jonathan Buckner & Chosen Road (gospel bluegrass)

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Circle Cross Cowboy Church North Florida Livestock Market 12171 US Hwy 441 Lake City, Florida
Circle Cross Cowboy Church presents...Jonathan Buckner & Chosen Road (gospel bluegrass)
Jona!an Buckner & Chosen Road
WWW.CHOSENROAD.ORG
JBCR
Jonathan Buckner and Chosen Road is an exciting young bluegrass gospel ministry
which was incepted in July of 2009 and immediately signed with Poor Mountain Music Recording
Label. The group has released three projects on the Poor Mountain Label with
their latest release “Expectations” seeing great success on the airways. Members of Chosen
Road have shared stages across the country with some of bluegrass and gospel music’s
most prominent names including Earl Scruggs, The Lewis Family, Alison Krauss and Union
Station, Dailey and Vincent, Blue Highway, The Primitive Quartet, The Isaacs, The Singing
Cookes, The Inspirations, Squire Parsons, Lu Lu Roman, Doc Watson and many more. The
group’s distinctive sound features Jonathan Buckner on guitar and vocals along with Jonathan
Campbell on bass and vocals, Zach Alvis on mandolin and vocals, and Jason Wheeler
on banjo and guitar.
Chosen Road is a full time ministry and keeps an extensive tour schedule holding approximately
two- hundred dates per year. The ensemble travels the east coast and ministers
through their form of bluegrass gospel music to audiences in a variety of venues including
churches, theaters, festivals, and fairs. Jonathan Buckner and Chosen Road’s unique sound
is guaranteed to please fans of all musical genres and leave them wanting more. A service
with Chosen Road is sure to be an uplifting time that audiences will not forget.

Circle Cross Cowboy Church of Lake City Florida

proudly presents gospel Bluegrass recording artists

 

 

WHEN:         Friday Feb, 8^th, 2013 @ 7 p.m.

Where:       Circle Cross Cowboy Church

                        North Florida Livestock market

                        12171 So. Hwy 441

                        Lake City, Florida

                        1-386-2281223

Members of Chosen Road have shared stages across the country with some of bluegrass and gospel music’s most prominent names including Earl Scruggs, The Lewis Family, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Dailey and Vincent, Blue Highway, The Primitive Quartet, The Isaacs, The Singing Cookes, The Inspirations, Squire Parsons, Lu Lu Roman, Doc Watson and many more.

 

Jonathan Buckner and Chosen Road’s unique sound is guaranteed to please fans of all musical genres and leave them wanting more. A service with Chosen Road is sure to be an uplifting time that audiences will not forget.

 

Come join us for church at the North Florida Livestock Market 

every Sunday at 3:pm for a kicken good time.

 

 

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Jefferson Davis's response to the E.P.

o    President Davis’s response to the EP

Here are just SOME of the amazing tid bits by Davis in this speech

1) Slavery is the cornerstone of the Confederacy. Davis apologist say slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War or the Confederacy. Here, Davis himself says slavery was the very foundation of the CSA.

2) Davis damns Lincoln for using black troops. He claims the war should be just by whites, "scions, peers, men of the same stock" and that to use blacks in battle "degrades" the white race, and justifies no mercy for blacks or whites in battle -- no prisoners.

The Southern lunatics today try to say they had black soldiers -- volunteers no less -- fighting for the South. Nonsense. According to Jeff Davis himself, Lincoln allowing blacks into the Union Army was an abomination against white race, and so changed the nature of the war, that he would invade the North and make slaves of all blacks there too (see below)

3) As a result of Lincoln using blacks -- we will invade the North, enslave the Negroes there!

Thats's right, because Lincoln said he will use black men as soldiers --- the South invade the North, and enslave blacks there, making the US one big slave nation, as God intended!!!!!

4) All slaves ever freed in the South are hereby "placed back on the slave status -- and their issue -- forever"

Many Southern apologist say Davis was going to end slavery soon anyway -- here, he promises to make slavery PERPETUAL -- forever. The slaves and the "issue" -- children -- will be enslaved forever.

5) Davis hopes to reunite the country, and make it all slave states.

Just like the Dred Scott decision, and the Southern Ultimatums, the issue was the SPREAD of slavery. Here Davis says he will reunite the country as a big slave nation.

Really, you have to read it over and over to get a handle on it.

Without further ado.....

Jefferson Davis, Richmond, January 5, 1863.

Jeff Davis
An Address to the People of the Free States by the President of the Southern Confederacy
Richmond, January 5, 1863.

"Citizens of the non-slaveholding States of America, .... Heretofore, the warfare has been conducted by white men -- peers, scions of the same stock; but the programme has been changed, and your rulers despairing of a triumph by th employment of white men, have degraded you and themselves, by inviting the cooperation of the black race.

Thus, while they deprecate the intervention of white men -- the French and the English -- in behalf of the Southern Confederacy, they, these Abolitionists, do not hesitate to invoke the intervention of the African race in favor of the North.........

"Now, therefore, as a compensatory measure, I do hereby issue the following Address to the People of the Non-Slaveholding States:

"On and after February 22, 1863, all free negroes within the limits of the Southern Confederacy shall be placed on the slave status, and be deemed to be chattels, they and their issue forever. (RE - ENSLAVE ALL BLACKS EVER FREED)

"All negroes who shall be taken in any of the States in which slavery does not now exist, in the progress of our arms, shall be adjudged, immediately after such capture, to occupy the slave status, and in all States which shall be vanquished by our arms, all free negroes shall, ipsofacto, be reduced to the condition of helotism, so that the respective normal conditions of the white and black races may be ultimately placed on a permanent basis, so as to prevent the public peace from being thereafter endangered.

"Abraham Lincoln has seen fit to ignore the Constitution he has solemnly sworn to support, it ought not be considered polemically or politically improper in me to vindicate the position which has been at an early day of this Southern republic, assumed by the Confederacy, namely, that slavery is the corner-stone of a Western Republic.
　
"In view of these facts, and conscientiously believing that the proper condition of the negro is slavery, or a complete subjection to the white man, -- and entertaining the belief that the day is not distant when the old Union will be restored with slavery nationally declared to be the proper condition of all of African descent, and in view of the future harmony and progress of all the States of America, I have been induced to issue this address, so that there may be no misunderstanding in the future. JEFFERSON DAVIS"

Source: Broadside, Jefferson Davis Papers, University Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA. This is printed in Ervin L. Jordan, _Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia,_ University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1995, Appendix C, pages 319-320.