The Confederacy Under Attack, Sept. 25, 2019: Some More On That Cop

**  Confederate Railroad headlines Hokes Bluff City Fest.    For those of you who don't know, Confederate Railroad is a popular country band who was booked to play at the Illinois State Fair in August but our governor had them banned because of the name.

**  Upcoming October programs at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.  Okay, some more REAL Civil War stuff.

**  Cop fired over KKK, Confederate memorabilia:  "I'm just a Dukes of Hazzard fan boy."  You definitely shouldn't get fired for Confederate memorabilia.  KKK stuff is another category, though.

**  West Newbury selectmen aim for parade guidelines by January.  This involves Confederate flags in their Memorial Day parade for 2020.

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack, Sept. 25, 2019: What About That Cop in Michigan?

From the September 25, 2019, Google Alerts for Confederate.  You can type in the headline to see the articles.  These are just the headlines.

**  Michigan cop caught with Confederate flags in his house says he just really likes 'The Dukes of Hazzard."
**  These were the worst Union and Confederate generals in the Civil War.  Well, at least some REAL Civil War stuff.

**  Sons of Confederate Veterans now claim ownership of statues removed in Franklin.

**  Open Forum:  View of Confederate monument simplistic.

**  Fairfax County School Board votes to change school names with Confederate ties.

--Old Secesh

What Is This Civil War II?

We had a World War I and then a World War II.  We also had a Civil War (1861-1865) which was the only Civil War until essentially those murders in Charleston, S.C. on June 17, 2015.  This is the date I consider the start of Civil War II, though it had been going on for years before that, especially with the beginning of the Civil War Sesquicentennial in 2011.

June 17, 2015 was essentially April 12, 1861, with the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.  It started the First Civil War.

I was writing about this continuing War on the Confederacy, or Civil War II as I call it, in my Saw the Elephant: Civil War blog, the last several months with three straight days worth of what my Google Alerts said.  It gives you the continuity and severity of those attacks.  Again, just because you don't continually read about these in your local newspaper, doesn't mean they aren't happening.

However, now that I have this new blog, I can write about Civil War II right here and keep Saw the Elephant to the First Civil War.

--Old Secesh

Some Older Heritage Attacks-- Part 2: Flags and More Flags

**  University clarifies removal policy for Confederate monuments.

**  Confederate flags will be sold but discouraged at county fair.

**  Confederate flag at community gardens in Concord removed.

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From the May 31, 2019, Google Alerts  for Confederate.

**  Parade vehicle with Confederate Flag draws criticism.

**  Letter:  Artifacts support alternative history of Confederacy.

**  There were six articles about the high school yearbook in yesterday's post.

Go Ahead, Flag Me!!  --Old Secesh

Some Older Heritage Attacks-- Part 1: Vendors and Yearbooks

I have been keeping an occasional list of the attacks in my Heritage Attacks notebook, just in case my old blog about them ever came to pass, but it didn't.  I will include them here.

From the May 30, 2019, Google Alerts for Confederate:

**  Tennessee town's plans for Confederate statue draws controversy.  (Franklin)

**  High school yearbooks recalled over Confederate flag photo.

**  Vendors banned from selling Confederate flags at Gouveneu & St.Lawrene County Fair.

**  Kemp signs bill to protect Confederate monuments.

**  Neighbors furious after person hangs mannequin from tree next to Confederate flag.    (I don't blame them.  This is not good for anybody.)

--Old Secesh

Heritage Attacks for Sept. 20, 2019: How About Those UNC Students

Google Alers for Confederate from Sept. 20, 2019.

**  Charlottesville's Confederate statues damaged.

**  Noses chopped off of Confederate statues downtown.

**  Virginia pastors lead Bible study (by Confederate statues which they want removed).

**  Hurricane Dorian returns cannonballs in South Carolina.  Okay, real Civil War history.

**  UNC students create anti-racist' alert system as tensions over Silent Sam still fester.  Perhaps we should have one that warns when the students determine to commit a hate crime like when they illegally took the statue down.

**  Illinois State Fair revenue sets record.  Well, they got none from us.  We were planning to go, but boycotted after they canceled the popular band Confederate Railroad because of the name.

**  The Portsmouth (England) Lib Dems will rise again.

**  ACLU:  New Orleans photographer sued by former New Orleans school principal.

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack, Sept. 19, 2019: Trade the Confederacy for Greenland?

Again, these are newspaper headlines from the Sept. 19, 2019, Google Alerts.

**  'History is history':  protesters demand Mississippi flag fly as cities, colleges enact bans.

**  Precious Heritage vs. Just get Over It.

**  More tolerance, less judgement.

**  The Battle to Rewrite Texas History

**  Trade the Confederacy straight across for Greenland.

It Just Doesn't Stop.  --Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack-- Sept. 19, 2019: Norfolk's Idea of Protecting History

These are my Google Alerts  for Confederate from 9-1-9-1-9.  Kind of a neat set of numbers.

**  Roanoke man was last Real Son of a Confederate veteran.   Well, this is real Civil War history.  Not this Confederacism.  I'll write about him in my Saw the Elephant Civil War blog.

**  County attorney:  'More likely than not' UDC owns Confederate monument.

**  Secret Places:  Hidden Confederate treasures in Brooks County.   Okay, Real history.

**  After monument of Confederate soldier vandalized, Virginia city sues to move it elsewhere.  (Norfolk)  Can you believe that?

**  In 1889, candidate criticized for response about Confederate pensions.

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack, Sept. 18, 2019-- Part 2

**  Museum around the corner: Part of historic flag.  Actually, not an attack on thee Confederacy, but about a piece of a Confederate flag that flew over the ruins of Fort Sumter in 1864 and was shot down.  I'll have to wrote about it in my Running the Blockade blog.

**  Confederate statues in Charlottesville vandalized days after court decision.

**  UNC-Chapel Hill students say they think they've found Silent Sam.

**  Kommersant:  Impending confederation of Belarus and Russia.  (Okay.  Nothing to do with the Civil War, but the word confederation.

**  Letter to the Editor:  When the University is silent, we should listen.  University of Mississippi

**  Native American group gives school district $98,000 to support mascot change.  This in Michigan and the school's mascot from Lee Rebels to Lee Legends.

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack, Sept. 18, 2019: Should Confederate Monuments Be Removed?

These are headlines taken from my September 18, 2019, Google Alerts for Confederate.

Many people believe that because they are not seeing these things in the news every day that maybe it has gone away.  It has definitely not gone away.

I am just giving the headline, but you can look it up on your own.

**  Where were the black Confederate soldiers?

**  Some Christians must stop worshiping the false idols of Confederate monuments.

**  Panelists at The Valentine discuss how to contextualize Confederate monuments in Richmond.

The D.C.:  Should Confederate statues be removed?

It Definitely Is Not Over.  --Old Secesh

Accessing My Other Blogs

Like I said, this is now my 8th blog.  I've got to stop adding new blogs, but these attacks are really angering me.

You can access my other seven blogs by clicking on the My Blogs site to the right of this.

--Old Secesh

OK, I'll Take Another Shot At This Blog

I have tried on a couple occasions to start this as an EIGHTH blog and I should have my head examined for having so many blogs.  One is too much.  But EIGHT!!!!!!

The last blog on the Second Civil War as I call this current affront to my heritage that I tried to start has not had a new entry for two years now.  If this one takes, it will not be a big one for me, just several entries a month on these attacks on the Confederacy that happen so much these days.

I have been putting the attacks in my Saw the Elephant: Civil War blog, but I want to stop that and just do the First Civil War there.  Most recently, I have been doing the last three days of each month on the attacks and for awhile didn't cover them at all.  before that the blog was almost becoming an entirely Second Civil War one.

I will continue with my sign-off name from my Saw the Elephant blog and that is "Old Secesh," the name Northerners used as a put-down on Confederates who wanted to secede from the Union (Secesh or Sesh).

Let's Hope This Takes.  --Old Secesh