The Second Civil War: Statues, Monuments, Memorials. It Just Doesn't Stop

MARCH 23, 2021

**  Centre College needs to heed calls for racial equality:  Start by moving Confederate  statue.  (Yep, that sure will promote racial equality.)

**  Public hearing set to decide  fate of Botetourt County  Confederate monument.  (Virginia)

**  Gainesville replacing 100-year-old  Confederate monument.  (That sure is a long time to be there before anyone realized they were offended.)

**  No Confederate Memorial Day  in Mississippi's Lee County.  (Named for Robert E. Lee.  Uh-oh.)

**  Confederate monuments are coming down,  What should we do with them now?  (Good question.)

**  Blake Pontchartrain:  Mystery still surrounds  the Bayou St. John Confederate submarine.  (What, a real Civil War story.  How'd that get in here?)

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MARCH 24, 2021

**  24 Confederate  memorials came down in NC  last year.  Virginia  is the only state to have removed more.   (Nothing to be proud of.)

**  Botetourt Board of Supervisors tables decision on moving Confederate monument.  (Virginia)

--Old Secesh

Two U.S. Ships Face Possible Name Change, SPLC Speaks and That Military Mess

These are media headlines.

June 13, 2020

**  Senate bill to purge Confederate names  from U.S. military  could affect two Navy ships.   (The guided missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) and oceanographic survey ship USNS Maury (T-AGS-66).    The Chancellorsville is names after am 1863 Confederate victory and the Maury after Matthew Fontaine Maury who served in the Confederate Navy.)

**  Ban Confederate flags and rename military bases.  It's basic respect for our black troops.

**  Confederate names would be stripped from Pentagon facilities under Senate measure.  (Besides bases, street and building names at bases.)

**  'Watershed Moment':  Will removal of  Confederate monuments  lead to lasting change in Alabama?

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June 14, 2020

**  Weekend Read:  It's time for entire U.S. military to ban Confederate symbols.  (There's a real big surprise.  Imagine the good folks at the SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center saying something like this?)

**  A black man now  heads the Air Force.  It's progress, but military brass remains starkly white.

--Old Secesh

Heritage Attacks Continue, Oct. 15-- Part 2: About the Confederate Capitals

**  Man behind I-20 Confederate flags says he'll run for senate.

**  Opinion:  Nathan Bedford Forrest, it's time for Tennessee to stop celebrating you.

**  An honest interpretation of John Castleman  could help us reconcile our slavery, Civil War.

**  All three capitals of the Confederacy now have black mayors.  Okay, I knew  Montgomery and Richmond.  But what was the third Confederate capital?

The third one was Danville, Virginia, which was the capital for a very short time after the Confederate government fled from Richmond.   Interesting.

**  Book Review:  "Life in Jefferson Davis' Navy."  Review of a new book on the Confederate Navy.  Anything Navy is my primary interest in the First Civil War.  Real Civil War history.

--Old Secesh