Prattville Dragoons Make Confederate History Presentation at Alabama Christian Academy

Compatriot Tyrone Crowley and Commander Waldo and his wife made a presentation at ACA on Thursday January 25th as part of the fourth grade class' Alabama history studies.  Mrs. Waldo made an entertaining presentation discussing the differences between life in the 19th century and today.  The students were very engaged as they answered questions about the differences in technology and life 150 years ago.  She wore a period gown with black hoop skirt and purple blouse which all the girls adored.  Commander Waldo wore period dress as a Confederate soldier and led a discussion on facts and figures around Alabama's place in Confederate history including secession and the war effort.  Waldo also presented the teachers with three Alabama Division Sesquicentennial educational posters for the classrooms and for each student, an SCV Christmas coin ornament, three pages from from an SCV Forrest comic book as well as Lee and Stonewall Jackson AL Division educational pamphlets.   Compatriot Crowley showed a series of six flags to the class explaining the historical significance of each in Alabama and Confederate history.  These included the Alabama Secession flag, the First, Second and, Third National flags, and the Confederate Battle flag, both that of the Army of Northern Virginia and the Naval Jack.   As time with the students drew to a close, Tyrone, portraying Jefferson Davis gave a brief history of the two times Davis was in Montgomery Alabama, in 1861 at his inauguration as President of the CSA and then 25 years later in 1886 when he made a public address and helped lay the cornerstone for the Confederate monument on the state capitol grounds.  It is classroom and living history student presentations like these which make history come alive for these young people and help reinforce the perspective and truth of Confederate history the SCV Charge implores us to advance.