Southern Historical Art
by Lynn Bonnette (Hutchins) Haney,
North Carolina

Flag image courtesy
of Ken Oxenrider

These drawings and oil paintings of historic Southern scenes and portraits of Confederates and ancestors were created with pencil on paper or with oil on linen canvas. Click on an image to see a larger version, more information, and price.

Historic Southern Scenes

Girl Writing a Letter on a Carolina Plantation, Early 1800s

"The slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline and thus be made unfit for slavery."
--Confederate President Jefferson Davis

Sisters Making Ginger Cakes on a Carolina Plantation, Early 1800s

"The sole object of this war is to restore the Union. Should I become convinced it has any other object, or that the Government designs its soldiers to execute the wishes of the Abolitionists, I pledge you my honor as a man and a soldier I would resign my commission and carry my sword to the other side."
--Union General Ulysses S. Grant, in a letter to the Chicage Tribune, 1862.

Portraits of Confederate Officers

"So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,
I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished."
--General Robert E. Lee

Portraits of Ancestors

George W. Malcom
(1791-1864)
Planter & Baptist minister
Georgia

"All that the South has ever desired was that the Union--as established by our forefathers--should be preserved, and that the government--as originally organized--should be administered in purity and truth."
--General Robert E. Lee

George Washington Gilbert
(1852-1930)
Georgia

"The American people, North and South, went into the war [Between the States] as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects... And what they thus lost they have never got back."
--H.L. Mencken

Sallie Haseltine (Crawford) Ruark
(1852-1941)
Georgia

"My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it."
--Abraham Lincoln,
in a letter to Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, on Aug. 22, 1862.

Laura Dwight (Kennerly) Bonnett
(1848-1920)
South Carolina

"The North has adopted a system of revenue and disbursements in which an undue proportion of the burden of taxation has been imposed on the South, and an undue proportion of its proceeds appropriated to the North."
--S.C. Senator John C. Calhoun, 1831

Leila Gertrude (Bolen) Odom
(1893-1983)
South Carolina

"The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States...formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities."
--John C. Calhoun

Cecil Hayden Bonnette &
Evelyn Elizabeth (Odom) Bonnette
South Carolina

Ancestors who were
Revolutionary War soldiers:

Edward Bolin (abt 1740-abt 1800), South Carolina
Capt. John Henry Felder (1725?-abt 1780), S. Carolina
William Fletcher III (1729-1831), VA > SC > Georgia
John Fletcher (1765-1860), SC > Georgia > Florida
Anthony Fogel (abt 1745-?), Virginia > South Carolina
David Hayden (1739-1813), Conn. (Mass. regiment)
Capt. Thomas Hardeman (1730-1791), VA > Georgia
Hustus Studstill (abt 1760-bef 1805), SC > Georgia
William Allen (abt 1760-1816), Virginia > Georgia
John Evans (1758-1862), N. Carolina > Georgia
James Malcom (1750-1829), Virginia > Georgia
Joel Phillips, Sr. (abt 1728-1792), Virginia > Georgia

Ancestors who were Confederate soldiers
in the War Between the States:

Sgt. John Frederick Bonnett (1839-1888), South Carolina
Charles Capers Brown (killed in war), South Carolina
Sgt. Norton Newell Hayden, Sr. (1842-1919), S.Carolina
John A. Odum (1835/36-1912), Georgia
Francis Marion Gilbert (1829-1899), Georgia
Wiley T. Hogan, Sr. (1823-1864), Georgia
Jackson Hutchins (1837-1919), Georgia
James Robinson Malcom (1815-1895), Georgia
John Thomas Malcom (1838-1921), Georgia

"In that part of the Union where the Negroes are no longer slaves, have they become closer to whites? Everyone who has lived in the United States will have noticed just the opposite. Race prejudice seems stronger in those states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists, and nowhere is it more intolerant than in those states where slavery was never known."
--Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859), in Democracy in America

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Interesting Reading

"The Civil War Wasn't About Slavery"
by Walter Williams, economics professor & syndicated columnist

"Black Confederates and the Casualty of Truth"

"The South and Southern History"
by Clyde Wilson (professor of history at the University of South Carolina
and editor of The Papers of John C. Calhoun)

"In the Land of Cotton: An Immigrant to Dixie Examines the 'Lost Cause'"

"The Dumbing Down of America"
An 1895 8th-grade final exam from Salina, Kansas, shows that
"...the average Joe was much more well-educated 100 years ago --
before government secured its virtual monopoly grip on schooling in America."

America's Caesar: The Decline and Fall of Republican Government
in the United States of America

"A Layman's Look at the Communist Manifesto"

"Not Yours To Give" by Davy Crockett

"A nation which does not remember what was yesterday does not know where it is today."
--General Robert E. Lee

Art is Copyright © Lynn Bonnette Hutchins. All rights reserved.
These works of art, including the electronic files, may NOT be copied, saved to disk, printed out,
or used in any manner without the artist's express written permission.

Graphic of intertwined flags used with the kind permission of Ken Oxenrider.

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