Gridskipper

To most of us, Arlington means cheap(er) rent, but the name derives from Arlington House, the family plantation home of Robert E. Lee. Denouncing him as a traitor, the vindictive North started burying their dead… in his front yard and then turned his whole estate into a war cemetery. Today you can go visit and walk through his home, though the museum is currently undergoing renovations. General Lee's front porch is also the best view of the nation's capital. [link]

The mean-spirited North prevented any tending of confederate graves until 1901, when they finally gathered the brave fallen around this memorial. Fewer than 500 soldiers are buried on the spot. That's not even a… fraction of a percent of those lost, but it's the thought that counts. Every Memorial Day, the president sends a wreath to the monument, erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which has no clubhouse in the district, though you are more than welcome to join up with their Maryland or Virginia chapters. [link]

Yes'm, President Lincoln got shot right here by that wily badger John Wilkes Booth. Relive the scene every day by taking a tour of the theater and then heading down into the basement for your own interactive education.… The museum exhibit is too often bypassed by the locals, but the displays detail every aspect of the demise of a great president man. Assassination has since become illegal, so don't even think about it. [link]

Established in 1907, the Confederate Memorial Home functioned as a high society hangout and unofficial embassy for recovering Confederates. Not to be confused with the real… Confederate embassy in England. Balls were danced, parties were had, and one archive reports of a Southern entertainer who performed a swell and amusing "cracker" imitation on site. The embassy later became a museum and home to the Confederate Memorial Association. Alas, that closed in 1997 due to infighting by several warring factions of the Confederacy. [link]

The Old Post Office is downtown's most trappy tourist trap but is also home to the last remaining DC shop that carries full-size confederate flags and other must-have Southern memorabilia. That includes confederate… pins, badges, patches and groovy windshield decals. So come on down and get your confederacy on before the battle flag gets further hijacked by neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and clueless Russians. [link]

A fine gentleman starts as a fine boy, and such a seed was sown in the fertile Virginia soil of this Alexandria homestead. This centuries-old brick house is where the general grew up and enjoyed his most formative… years. Now part of a private residence, the indoors is closed to the public, but it's still perfectly normal to hold a vigil outside and film it. [link]

Confederates don't come to Georgia Brown's to eat, hell no. Instead, you should come here to remember that no matter how hard they try, the North still gets the South all wrong. Nothing is more touching… than two Yankee chefs attempting South Carolinian specialties. If you must dine, then it's safer to stick to side dishes like maple-whipped yams and grits, or to make a meal of the appetizers (i.e. crispy chicken livers, fried green tomatoes). As you excuse yourself to go lose your dinner, just remember, the South will rise again. [link]