Founder

The concept that freedom is not free is truer then we might realize and it is a certainty in our day-to-day world that if one does not have a vision that all things are indeed possible, they have already lost the battle, but first we must dream the dream.  You must envision the manner in which events must unfold, in order to make your dreams a living reality.  Afterward it is necessary to act upon those dreams; otherwise they remain merely a dream unfulfilled.  Far to often those seemingly unnumbered multitudes out there, that love all things Confederate and Southern, will occasionally raise a Confederate Banner or even speak in Confederate Patriotic tones.  Then walk away from the situation, with no intention of taking concrete action, in order to make it happen in the real world.

The Confederate Legion was initially nothing more then a dream and a vision of a future, in which our people could look down a parade route and see more then the normal high school or college bands, drum corps and floats.  If my memory serves me right it all began when, in the summer of 1996 there was a Confederate Conference in Johnston Tennessee and that same year, my family and myself attended a local holiday parade.  It was during this parade that while the different units passed by, I overheard a teenage boy ask of his father: “Where are our boys” referring to the lack of any Confederate participation.  That teenager’s words became my dream, whereby the day would come when we would all see long columns of ‘Men in Gray’ in pass and review.

Over a twelve years period attempts were made to muster enough people, where the Confederate Legion could be launched, but failure followed failure, still, it was my belief, that it was possible, just as the Holy Scriptures says.   Then on 12 April 2006, after so many years of persistence in the face of failure, the Confederate Legion was launched.  The following month on 22 May that same year, the Confederate Legion Youth Corps became a reality, with a little over 400 founding members.  Now the Confederate Legion at large has approximately 20,000 members and it is all a result of keeping the faith that all things are truly possible, to them that believes and acts upon those beliefs.  And it begins with having a dream and a vision, then taking action to make it happen!

However, the Confederate Legion is even now, a work in progress, and we have only made a small humble beginning, there is much more, which is still left undone, and we need your help to finish the work.  If I might use the words of the late Reverend Martin Luther King, in a way he never intended; I have a dream.  My dream is that of 3,000,000 loyal, trained and equipped Confederate Legionnaires, all of them having, discipline, military bearing, and are prepared to adhere to the Confederate Legion chain of command.  I speak of Confederate Legionnaires, which are truly a professional Confederate Military Ceremonial Honor Guard.  Ladies and Gentlemen, I want those 3,000,000 Confederate Legionnaires, not for the purpose of serving my own ego, but for the sake of generations yet unborn.

I have a dream, that everyone of you will either become a member of the Confederate Legion, Confederate Legion Youth Corps or else a witness to not fewer then 1,000,000 Men in Gray, in a pass and review and on the prime time news.  It is my personal dream that in the process, we will together create such a spectacle; the entire world will stand in awe.  Don’t make me wait until I have one foot in the grave, before all this comes to pass, but help me build the Confederate Legion now, as an instrument in our struggle to liberate the Confederate States of America.  I don’t know about you, but I am tired of seeing only ‘those people’ on parade, it is pass the time for a Confederate demonstration of power, and to make our cause known worldwide.

God save the Confederacy

Thomas E. Guinn
Founder
Confederate Legion
founder@confederatelegion.com