Civil War II: Virginia, Mascot, Confederate Flags, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Monuments

JANUARY 27, 2021

**  Supervisors accept recommendation to move  Botetourt County's Confederate monument.  (Virginia.  Will be moved a few hundred yards away from the court house to the county history museum.  A very acceptable move in my opinion.  Put one on the Virginia score.

**  Colonels no more:  South Garland High School drops Confederate mascot, adopts new campus symbol.  (Texas.  Now the Titans.)

**  Bismarck School Board gets boundary update; student asks for Confederate flag ban.  (Bismarck, North Dakota.  A black student wants it banned.)

**  Confederate statue a step closer  to returning to Hemming family.  (Jacksonville, Florida.  The statue was removed at night as is so often the case.  It stood at what was known as Hemming Park in the city, donated by Charles Hemming.)

**  Statue of Confederate general in Dalton to be relocated after protests and counter protests.  (Georgia.  Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.)

**  Madison County not backing down in battle over Confederate monument removal.  (Huntsville, Alabama.)

**  States of America:  What does America do with its Confederate monuments.

--Old Sesh

Will the Last Confederate Statue/Artifact in Virginia Please Turn Out the Light When It Goes? Va. Strikes Again

JULY 25, 2020


**  Confederate statues removed from Virginia Capitol in the dead of the night.  (Do you know who likes to operate in the "dead of the night?"  The sad governor's work again?)

**  Virginia evicts Confederate monuments from its state Capitol.    (Guess they weren't paying rent.)

**  Lee statue, Confederate busts removed from Old House Chamber of Virginia State Capitol.

Other Confederate artifacts removed (mostly busts I imagine):

Joseph E. Johnston
Fitzhugh Lee
Alexander H. Stevens

Thomas Bocock  (Speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives for most of the war.)
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
James E. B. "Jeb" Stuart

Jefferson F. Davis
Matthew F. Maury

I hadn't heard of Thomas Bocock before.

I bet the Confederates would now deeply regret moving the country's capital to Richmond.  They might as well have moved it to Boston or Any Other Hotbed of Abolitionists.

Without a Doubt, Virginia Is Getting Real Good at Confederadication.  Will the Last Confederate Monument in Virginia Please Turn Out the Lights When It Goes?  --Old Secesh

Cobb County, Ga., Reaches Compromise on Park Name-- Part 3

Johnston's River Line along the Chattahoochee River  contains  a stretch of trenches and earthworks named for the Confederate general, who oversaw its construction  in 1864, to defend against the invasion of Union forces under General William T. Sherman.

Part of the labor force of the Line included slaves.

"Johnston's Line"  was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but the name was never made official by Cobb County.

The parkland on which it is situated was acquired by the county in a settlement with a developer in  the early 1990s.    In 2016, it was included  on an approved list of SPLOST projects and a park master plan was created in 2018.

That plan includes a small parking lot, restroom, trails, and signage highlighting archaeological features.  That would be the Confederate fortifications and I am sure contextual wording would have to be on those signs.

--Old Secesh

Cobb County, Ga., Reaches Compromise on New Park Name-- Part 2:

The compromise was reached Tuesday and the 102-acre park will be named Discovery Park at the River Line.

My problem with the compromise name is that it doesn't say anything about the Civil War, which was the nod to River Line.  Perhaps calling it the Civil War River Line or Defensive River Line would have been better.

It is being developed by  using $1 million from a special one percent sales tax.

Residents of the area originally wanted it named Mapleton Discovery Park, after the surrounding area in Mapleton off Discovery Boulevard.  They said the name was inclusive of the diverse community in which the park is located.

But some historic preservationists wanted the name to include a reference to Johnston's River Line.  The River Line was a series of fortifications built partly by impressed slave labor.  If you remember the scene in "Gone With the Wind" when Scarlett saw some of Tara's slaves marching through Atlanta on their way to build defenses, this would be what it was about.

--Old Secesh

Cobb County, Ga., Reaches Compromise on New Park Name-- Part 1

From the May 12, 2020, Atlanta Journal-Constitution  "Cobb approves compromise name for park with Confederate earthworks" by Meris Lutz

Cobb County, outside Atlanta, has reached a compromise over the name of a park after two years of controversy.  The park, which looks to be a scenic as well as historic one is under construction along the Chattahoochee River in Mapleton and contains Civil War earthworks.

This is a big thing for Civil War remnants around Atlanta because this, of course was a huge battle and big turning point of the war when it fell to Union forces.  Unfortunately, after the war, city growth has destroyed so much of these historic sites and fortifications.

Having a new scenic and historic park was not the bone of contention.  Of course, it was that those fortifications were built by Confederates in the defense of Atlanta.  And, you know that there are some people who are dearly trying to erase any and all mention of the "C" word.  And, in this instance the word Confederate was not even in play.

But, the name of the Confederate general, Joseph E. Johnston, was and there were those who wanted the park named Johnston's River Line Park.  Of course, this would be bringing up that Confederate thing and some people are offended by it.

You Sure Couldn't Call It Confederate Park or Johnston Park.  Way Too "C" Word for the Easily Offended.  --Old Secesh