Sylva Sam, Alamance County, Virginia, Fort Belvoir and USS Antietam and Renaming Forts

MAY 21, 2021

**  Changes to Sylva Sam Confederate statue approved, mixed reactions.  (Jackson County, NC.  There will be bronze plaques covering some parts.  Cost $13,000)

**  Dueling protests come to  Alamance County over  Confederate monument.  (Graham, North Carolina.)

**  Council makes move to relocate Confederate statue.  (Farmville, Virginia.)

**  Fort Belvoir, cruiser Antietam  under consideration  for renaming by the DoD commission.  (These are not on the original list.  Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is named after a plantation. The cruiser USS Antietam is named after a Civil War battle.  But, didn't the Union win that one?)

**  Commissions says no decisions  made yet in renaming Army bases that honor Confederate  generals.

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MAY 22, 2021

**  Removal of Confederate names  could affect hundreds of sites.  (Removal on all things military.)

**  Confederate memorial highlights deep-seated  divisions in Alamance County.  (North Carolina.  That Graham statue again.)

--Old Secesh