Mumford Memorial Library

03/25/2026

Well...the city council of Waycross voted 3-1 to remove the Confederate monument that stood for over 110 years on the courthouse square last week...its sad that a few liberal malcontents can whine like children and get what they want... a court fight is promised by the Georgia Division of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans.... ................................................... I've posted this before, but it needs to be revisited because of the simple and profound truth of the matter. While the South is salted with Confederate monuments, and some of them are to Confederate leaders like Lee, Jackson, Stuart and others, the vast majority of Confederate monuments are to "OUR CONFEDERATE DEAD" or " THE MEMORY OF THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS OF WARE
COUNTY", or similar dedication.
These monuments sit on courthouse lawns because almost every single family in every single town in the prostrate, burned and broken South was affected. They'd lost their sons, husbands, fathers, brothers, grandsons, nephews and uncles. These were red, yellow, black, white and brown human beings. Some families lost every single male between the ages of 12 and 70. You must understand the majority of the men in the South were either killed in battle or maimed for life ( 25% of all Southern men is the number)
It is a fact of the human condition that people need a place to go and grieve their lost loved ones, and these monuments were placed in a central location like the courthouse lawn because people came to town regularly and the court house was usually the center of activity in the town.
The truth is these monuments serve as grave stones for the men who did not get to come home and be buried.
The truth is, had our people known that outsiders and newcomers to the South would attempt to remove them 100+ years in the future they would have made laws preventing their removal or the Ladies Memorial Association and the United Daughters of the Confederacy would have made sure a deed to the land they sit on was in their possession.
The truth is outsiders and newcomers to the South will be judged for their incessant stupidity and willful ignorance. And the ones who are sitting silent will be judged as well.
This soldier was buried with a tombstone, the vast majority of them were not and their families never retrieved their bodies.
The truth is, if outsiders and newcomers to the South don't like what they see in our South, they are free to go back wherever they came from.

02/03/2025

01/25/2024

Do to Health and other problems we aren't able to open the library, We will reopen when the caretaker is feeling better and we will again open as normal. Untill then please be patient cause we all want to get back to the Library soon to reopen . The newsletter is in work to be printed as usual at the end of the month for our subscribers. Thank you for your continued support :)

11/27/2023

Thank you Jerry Brown, and Robert Smith for repairing the letters on the library.

09/13/2023

Another tree fell At the Confederate Soldiers Park this time from the storm caused by the Hurricane Lee coming up the east coast we got lots of rain and wind yesterday 😞 We just paid 1200$ to get the last Tree removed that fell from the last Hurricane . Its so true when they say when it rains it pours.

09/06/2023

Who is Responsible when a Neighbor's Tree Falls on Your Property in the State of Georgia? In the State of Georgia, the fallen tree responsibility law is based around the fact that if a tree falls within your boundary and causes any damage to your property, you are responsible for the damages.Oct 19, 2022. Well, its still partially rooted on the neighbors property and fell because the land was recently cleared and the roots were disturbed. I still think the neighbor owns the tree so even if we are responsible for the cost of the damage to our property I still think its his tree to remove cause he still owns the tree.

07/04/2022

The Fourth of July began with so much noise in 1861 that a Washington newspaper reported that it “aroused old fogyism from its sleep.” Even at daybreak, there were firecrackers, small arms fire, cannonades and home-made torpedoes, in addition to the tolling of bells from every church in the city. Then, as now, many Americans measured the success of Independence Day by how much noise they could make, a tradition that had grown robust in the nation’s capital. Still, the sound of so many explosions was disturbing in a city that was still jumpy, afraid that it might be invaded any moment by violent militias, furious that a presidential election had not gone their way. Only a few months earlier, the Capitol had been threatened by angry mobs who tried to prevent the counting of the electoral votes that would certify Abraham Lincoln as the 16th president. As July Fourth approached, there were still many malcontents living in Washington, and Confederate troops were perilously close, roaming the Virginia countryside near what is now Dulles Airport. Many feared another assault on the Capitol by anti-Lincoln vigilantes. The Civil War had begun at Fort Sumter three months earlier, when South Carolinians fired on the U.S. flag on behalf of a Southern Confederacy that had formed before Lincoln even arrived. The skirmishes had been small since then, but emotions were running high, as Americans argued over race, slavery, and the right of states to withdraw from the Union. So began the strangest Independence Day in our history, a day that mixed celebration, self-reflection and a palpable tension that any spark would be enough to ignite a hot war between the armies stationed around Washington. Yet each of these armies felt the same sentimental attachment to the rituals of July Fourth. Could it be that the holiday would bring them closer together, and reduce the chance of bloodletting? Or would over-eager celebration actually increase it, as firecrackers mingled with artillery fire? Either result was possible as the day began. The way Washington celebrated that day went a long way to determine the republic we became. In a fraught moment, with two versions of America competing against each other, one version — of a country rooted in calm democratic protocols — prevailed over the other. Despite his lack of experience in elective office, and his meager education, Lincoln clearly won this often-overlooked skirmish. He had a better Fourth of July than Jefferson Davis. As a result, we live in a single country, instead of a Balkanized set of mini-Americas separated by military checkpoints. As divided Americans limped toward that July 4, the cause of democracy was in deep trouble. Seven Southern states had seceded from the Union before Lincoln even arrived; four more quit after he asked for volunteers to defend what was left. To the south and west of Washington lay Virginia, the most powerful state in the Confederacy. To the north and east was Maryland, deeply divided in its loyalties. With danger on all sides, it was not clear that Washington could be defended. Lincoln had never achieved the kind of glittering career in Washington that Jefferson Davis had. His only elective office was a single term in the House, not very successful, 12 years earlier. But he had a lifelong relationship with the Declaration of Independence, which he had carefully read and re-read since encountering it, as a youth, inside a book of Indiana statutes. He seemed to grow taller while talking about it, as he did throughout his debates with Stephen Douglas. He particularly loved the second paragraph, with its promise of the fundamental rights that belong to all humans. Especially “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Together, those human rights constituted a powerful argument against human bo***ge. There was also a Southern way of reading the Declaration, as a free pass for any disgruntled voters who wanted to start a new country after a disagreeable election result. Davis had floated this idea in his farewell speech to the Senate, inside the Capitol, six months earlier. He had also gone out of his way to say that Black Americans had no rights of any kind. But Davis never spoke to the nation — either nation — on July 4, 1861. He had never shown much interest in history. And he may have found the Declaration uncomfortable for other reasons. Just when it seemed that Tennessee might join the Confederacy, the eastern part of the state issued its own “Declaration of Independence” so that it could remain in the Union. Similarly, West Virginia was leaving Virginia so that it would not have to leave the United States. Defending the right of secession could leave Davis the president of a very small country. By Ted Widmer, 07/03/2021 Politico.Com A Harper's Weekly illustration of July Fourth, 1861, at Union camps. | Library of Congress

05/08/2022

On April 30th the Lanier of Glen Brunswick, GA chapter of the UDC and some local SCV members attended a Confederate Memorial day celebration at the Confederate Soldiers Park and Memorial Library. President Janice Westberry led the program and SCV member David Green read a commemoration from "Doc' Watson who arrived early and couldn't stay so he read his speech to me and Ann Keene then left his speech to be read later at the ceremony. I t was a beautiful ceremony and speech and the ladies placed flowers at the monument and on the graves of Soldiers. After the Ceremony we all had a delirious picnic lunch provided by the ladies of the UDC it was a nice day for fellowship. Thanks to all that made the day possible and to the memory of our brave CSA Soldiers who din't make it home after the war.