Hi All,
I'm doing again....passing along info from another list.......hoping those
'lost' e found...............Alice
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From 1995 Reader's Digest
BRAZIL
UNDER FLUTTERING Confederate flags,
women in hoop skirts dance the Vir-
ginia reel with men wearing rebel gray.
It could have been a gathering of Civil
War buffs in Georgia or Alabama, but
this picnic took place more than 4000
miles below the Mason-Dixon line.
Brazilian descendants of Confederate
veterans who sought refuge in this tro~
ical nation 130 years ago gather four
times a year to celebrate their Ameri-
can roots. They are members of the
Fraternidade Descendencia Americana,
founded in 1954 to preserve ties to U.S.
culture among an estimated 100,000 heirs
of the original emigrants.
The Confederate emigres were some
20,000 Southerners who preferred the
Brazilian wilderness to life under Yan-
kee rule after the Civil War. The expa-
triates were called Confederados and
their community was Vila Americana,
or 'American Town." Today, Vila Amer-
icana (pop. 200,000) is the only city in
Brazil with a coat of arms that has a
Confederate flag as its centerpiece.
-Jack Epstein in The Christian Science Monitor
Subj: Re: something to think about
Date: 98-05-23 23:29:22 EDT
From: rlew6897(a)interpath.com (Rob Lewis)
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Donald E. Deal wrote:
>
From 1995 Reader's Digest
> BRAZIL
> UNDER FLUTTERING Confederate flags,
> women in hoop skirts dance the Vir-
> ginia reel with men wearing rebel gray.
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I have found the reference to the Confederate veterans who sought
refuge in Brazil to be quiet interesting. A few days ago I came across
the following url which I will share with you all. If you have lost a
southern ancestor just after the war of northern agression, then you
should look at this site and consider looking in other central american
locations. I think that you will find <
http://www.scv.org/Camp1653/>
to be interesting and educational and it just might find that lost
member of your family.
Rob