That Washington Post and CAIR Again

JANUARY 31, 2023

**  Richmond mayor on removal of c(C)onfederate monuments.  (Washington Post.  Do you think they were for the mayor?)

**  MoCo GOP to host class led by pastor linked to neo-Confederate  group.  (Montgomery County, Maryland. Watch out for gthose neo-Confederates.)

**  CAIR calls on Maryland GOP to drop speaker tied to neo-Confederate group.  (Gosh.  Those guys?)

**  John Sims, the artist known for burning  the c(C)onfederate flag, remnds us of the power of B(b)lack art.

**  Edenton protest group installs anti-monument sign.  (North Carolina)

Definitely Not Our Friends.  --Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Alabama, North Carolina, Arkansas, Maryland and Georgia

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

**  Alabama superintendent fights to remove Confederate school names.  (Montgomery, Alabama.  Three schools still have Confederate names.  I wonder if the superintendent is a black person or white person?)

**  White supremacists  launch threats after bulldozing Confederate monument.  (North Carolina.  Like I said before.  There are idiots on both sides.  The mayor should not have threats made on him, but definitely should be recalled and if that doesn't work, defeated in the next election.  That's the American way.)

**  Fort Smith's request to stop flying Confederate flag will go before Arkansas History Commission.

**  3 Naval Academy name changes  recommended due to Confederate ties.  (Annapolis, Maryland)

**  Promised  changes to Confederate imagery at Stone Mountain slow coming.  (Georgia)

--Old Secesh

Capitol Riot, The Tennessee Jury Room, Baltimore and Pensacola

AUGUST 16, 2022

**  Capitol rioter who struck officer with Confederate flag gets five months in prison.  (As he should.)

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AUGUST 18, 2022

**  Tennessee court rules Confederate memorabilia in jury room not prejudicial.  (Giles County, Tn.)

**  Five years after their removal, Baltimore's Confederate monuments expected to appear in an art exhinit in Los Angeles.

**  Pensacola police reveal new badge without Confederate flag.  (Florida)

**  Conviction  stands for black man convicted in Confederate-themed jury room.  (Tennessee.  It had Confederate portraits and flags.)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Who's Paying? How Many Confederate Memorials in Ohio?

AUGUST 5, 2022

**  Confederate statue base set to be removed from courthouse lawn in Daviess Co.  (Owensboro, Kentucky.  Hopefully those who wanted it gone are paying for it, but kind of doubt it.)

AUGUST 7, 2022

**  See how many Confederate  memorials still exist in Ohio.  (There are six.  Wonder where they got the figures?  You think SPLC?)

AUGUST 8, 2022

**  Storied Maryland military unit expected to lose seven of the 'battle streamers' that top its flag because of Confederate ties.)

--Old Secesh

Florida, Maryland, Army, Warren Buffett and Louisiana

JULY 31, 2022

**  An about-face:  A monument honoring black Union soldiers is re-turned to face Centennial Park in downtown Fort Myers. (Florida.  It originally faced away from the park so visitors couldn't see his face.  I am all in favor of statues for Blacks when appropriate.)

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AUGUST 1, 2022

**  Meet the  Neo-Confederate 9/11 Truther Maryland GOP voters picked for attorney general. (Rolling Stone)

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AUGUST 2, 2022

**  The 29th Division gets to keep its Confederacy-themed patch.  (Blue-Gray Ying-Yang)

**  Warren Buffett's company accused  of racism,  redlining, even  posing in front of a Confederate flag.  (Daily Kos)

**  Louisiana locals call for Confederate statues to be replaced with Britney Spears.  (Hit Network)

--Old Secesh

Let Those Who Want Confederate Mounuments Gone Pay for It Themselves

JUNE 8, 2022

**  Louisiana legislature scraps Confederate holidays more than 150 years after the Civil War.

**  Republican council member takes another shot at Confederate monument removal.  (Jacksonville, Florida.  He wants the city to put up half a million dollars for removal.  I say that those who want it removed should have to come up with the money.  Let them put their money where their mouths are.)

**  Washington County rededicates Confederate statue.  (Abungdon, Virginia.  It was moved from the courthouse.)

**  Confederate statue removed.  (Daviess County, Kentucky)

**  Students charged with raising c(C)onfederate flag at La Plata school.  (Maryland)

--Old Secesh

Should Blacks Be Required to Make Reparations for the Role Their Ancestors Played in the African Slave Trade?

MAY 22, 2022  (Lots of 2s)

**  The last two days, there hasn't been any new news reports regarding this relentless attack on Confederate heritage.  This is a great thing.  I sure would like to stop this blog and will if the other side ever stops attacking.

Come on guys, I need a break.

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MAY 23, 2022

**  Confederate flag found at MD. high school sparking an investigation.  (Maryland.  Come on guys!!  An investigation?  Did that flag kill someone?)

**  A descendant  of a Confederate surgeon makes  reparations in a small way.  (New York.  Descendant of Confederate Dr. Hunter McGuire.)  

(Should Blacks be required to make reparations for the part their ancestors in Africa played in the slave trade?)

I Sure Would Like to Stop This Blog.  Come on Guys!!   Stop Attacking.  --Old Secesh

Even New Mexico and Those Three States Still Commemorating Confederate Memorial Day

MAY 12, 2022

**  Special Report:  The Confederacy legacy lingering in  Las Cruces.  (New Mexico.  John Robert Baylor sign.  SPLC sniffed this one out.  Made the list, you know.  Ain't no Confeds getting past these guys.)

**  In these three states, 'Confederate Memorial Day' is still observed.  (South Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama.  But, yet, we can celebrate Juneteenth?)

**  Hamilton council votes to support ban on hate symbols, including Confederate flag and swastika.  (Canada.  Did they also include BLM material?)

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MAY 13, 2022

**  Shenandoah County School Board to discuss restoration of c(C)onfederate  school names.  (Virginia. Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby-Lee Elementary School were renamed in 2020.  Boy is this going to make SPLC mad.)

**  Centreville  man pleads guilty after setting truck with Confederate  flag sticker on fire.  (Maryland)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: How Do You Get To Be an Activist?

MARCH 22, 2022

**  Removed  Confederate monument sets milestone in Maryland.  (The "Talbot Boys" statue.  The last Confederate monument on public space in the state.  A coalition raised the money to remove it which is exactly what should always be done for statue removal.  The folks who want it done should PAY for its removal.  It is going to a Civil War battlefield.)

**  Confederate statue condemned at court hearing.  (Virginia.  A current trial of a black man is going on.)

**  Duvall County activists protest to show support  of removing Confederate monuments.  (Jacksonville, Florida.  Again, how do you get to be an activist.  Do you have to go to college?  There sure seem to be an awful lot of black activists.)

**  Coalition pushes to return Robert E. Lee bust to downtown Fort Myers.  (Florida)

--Old Secesh

Bisons, Maryland, Talbot Boys and Louisiana

MARCH 13, 2022

**  Bison fills  onetime Confederate statue spot at Dixie State.  (Utah.  I thought they also had to change the name of the school.  You know, Dixie.)

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MARCH 15, 2022

**  Maryland's last  public Confederate monument removed.  (And I bet the dear folks over at SPLC are rejoicing.  Nice job guys.  Go make a list.)

**  It was the "Talbot Boys" statue.

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MARCH 16, 2022

**  Opelousas, St. Landry c(C)onfederate monument may be removed, replaced.  (Louisiana.  Come on Daily World, capitalize proper names.)

--Old Secesh

Sad R. Does It Again. African Art Replaces Confederate Statue, Maryland and Stone Mountain

JANUARY 25, 2022

**  Unanimous vote:  Richmond Confederate monuments going to black history museum.  (Another reason to boycott Sad R.  I can't imagine a worse place for our heritage to go.  There will be no respect there, no matter what the good old Post has to say.)

**  Simone   Leigh statue of African deity installed at site of former Confederate monument in New Orleans.  (And tell me, what does this have to do with me.  I worship no African deities.  Simone Leigh is a black artist.))

**  Opinion:    How many Marylanders fought for the rebels  was overstated.  (Again, consider the source, the Washington Post.)

**  Stone Mountain  leaders grappling with business losses at the park's resort hotel.  (Georgia.  It's that Confederate thing, you know.  And, of course, that virus thing.)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Virginia, Maryland, Montana

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

**  King George County  votes to move Confederate monument.  (Virginia.  The key point here is that it was the board of supervisors who voted to move it, not the people.  This probably would not have happened had the people voted.)

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NOVEMBER 27, 2021

**  Contract awarded to move Confederate monument.  (Talbot County, Maryland.  It will cost $67,000 and is being privately funded, which is the way it should be.  No public money used and the money coming from those who want it removed.)

**  City won't put Confederate monument on agenda.  (Helena, Montana)

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

**  The stance on Virginia's  Confederate monuments:  It's complicated.

--Old Secesh

Realtors, Tattoos, Historical Society, Fines

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

**  National Association of Realtors bars Confederate flags from listing photos.  (Et Tu Realtors?)

**  This Confederate flag-tattooed felon is running for Congress.  (Jason Mariner of Florida.)

**  Historical  Society asks to repurpose and preserve  Confederate memorial.  (Abingdom, Virginia)

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NOVEMBER 25, 2021

**  King George will move Confederate memorial.  (Virginia)

**  Move the Monument coalition  seeking donations to fund Talbot Confederate monument relocation.  (Maryland.  I can agree with this if the coalition was the one that wanted it removed in the first place.  Then they should pay for it.)

**  Montgomery faces  fine lawsuit for dropping Confederate name.  (Alabama)

--Old Secesh

Gen. Mouton, Jacksonville, Charlotte, Tow It, Burn It

OCTOBER 31, 2021

**  Gen. Alfred Mouton statue finds new home  at former Confederate training camp.  (Louisiana.  Removed from downtown Lafayette.  It has been relocated to Camp Moore Museum and Cemetery.)

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

**  2 Jacksonville  City Council committees vote down removal of Confederate statue from Springfield Park.  (Florida.  How'd that happen?)

**  Removal of c(C)onfederate  monument appears doomed.  (The same story as above.  Come on WJCT News.  PROPER NAME!!!)

**  More Charlotte  streets stripped of Confederate era names.  (North Carolina)

**  Towing company alleges removal from Centralia  tow rotation after owner displays c(C)onfederate flag.  (Illinois.  Come on Madison-St. Clair Record.  PROPER NAME!!)

**   Man sets truck with Confederate flag on fire in Centreville.  (Maryland.  That wasn't very nice.)

--Old Secesh

Stone Mountain, Talbot Boys, Arlington County and Edmund Kirby Smith

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

**  Stone Mountain Park board weighing potential new business partners. (Georgia)

**  Group searches for new home  for Talbot Boys Confederate statue.  (Maryland.  There is the hope to keep the statue somewhere in Talbot County, Md. instead of moving it to Virginia.  I completely back this idea.)

**  Arlington County approves new logo, meant to capture ties to DC and Alexandria.  (Virginia.  The old one featured the home of Robert E. Lee.)

**  Virginia Congressman  doubles down in push  for new name of Fort Lee.  (Virginia.  The representative is a black man, and very surprisingly wants Fort Lee named for a black officer.  Who'd-a-thunk?)

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

**  Florida Confederate statue headed for Tallahassee, for now.  (Statue of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith had been in U.S. Capitol.)

Can You Imagine a Black Person Wanting an Army Base Renamed for a Black Person?  --Old Secesh

Talbot Boys Gone, MTSU Forrest, Those Pesky Confederate Memorial Bases, Proper Name Boys and Girls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

**  Confederate statue to be removed from Maryland  court house lawn.  (The Talbot Boys monument.)

**  Second attempt to remove name of Confederate general from MTSU building.  (Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.  Forrest Hall, Army ROTC.  Hey, just pretend it is named after Forrest Gump who was quite an Army hero according to the movie.)

**  County commissioners vote to remove former Confederate memorial base.  (Warren County, Warrenton, N.C.  First they want the statue gone then the base of it.  Never happy.)

**  Historian Karen Cox:  We have   'No Common Ground' on Confederate monuments.  (North Carolina)

**  Maryland's last c(C)onfederate  statue to be removed to Shenandoah Valley.  (Come on WHSV.  Didn't you ;earn in school that Confederate is a proper name?  That's Shenandoah Valley as in Virginia.  It should have stayed somewhere private in Maryland and close to Talbot County.)

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

**  Confederate AP Hill statue may be headed for Culpepper.  (Virginia.  Please hurry up and get it out of Sad R.)

**  Robert E, Lee and the Trumpists:  Why a Confederate  "hero" is still important.

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Jacksonville, Maryland, Belle Boyd's Grave, Boy Scouts, Fort Bragg and Monumentless Avenue in Sad R.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

**  Rally calls for removal of Confederate monuments in Jacksonville.  (Florida.  About two dozen people.  That is one huge rally.)

**  Last Confederate monument  on Md. public land set to come down.  (Maryland.  The Talbot Boys monument.  This was in the Washington Post.  Do you suppose they are happy about this?)

**  Confederate spy's grave still stands.  (Kilburn City, (Wisconsin Dells) Wisconsin   Belle Boyd's grave site.  The writer, a college student seems to be a real Confederate hater.)

**  Scout official:  Confederate flags flown by  troop in Peach Days parade an honest mistake.  (Utah.  Boy Scouts)

**  Public suggest renaming Fort Bragg after Union General Edward Bragg.  (Like I said, a good idea.)

**  2020-21:  When Confederate monuments came down from Monument Avenue in Richmond.  (Now it's Monumentless Avenue in Sad R.  Too bad the Blacks didn't just make their own avenue to honor their people.)

--Old Secesh

Would You Believe There Are Those Who Want Confederadication? What's an Activist? Fort Bragg and Maggie Speaks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

**  Old South  vs. the new America:  What Confederate monuments say about us.  (From the Hill.  A very anti-Confederate piece.

**  Activists hail  Lee statue removal, say more work remains.  (Again, how does one get to be an activist?  Does a fairy god mother come over and prang you with her wand?  And, of course, the mire work to do is to erase all mention of the Confederacy.)

**  America has always run from  the truth of itself.  (Houston Chronicle)

*  'Like it or not,' Fort Bragg will be renamed.  Now, it is just a question of what.  (I've already put in the name Edward Bragg, Union commander of the famed Iron Brigade.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

**  Singer Maggie Rogers calls on Easton to remove Confederate Talbot Boys statue ahead of Tuesday night council vote.  (Maryland.  Well if Maggie says it should go.  My question, who is Maggie Rogers?)

--Old Secesh

Hate Crimes to 'Lion of the Confederacy' Cause Its Removal in Atlanta

AUGUST 17, 2021

**  Kandiyohi County  sheriff denounces display of Confederate flag at  County Fair, says it was bot  sheriff's vehicle.  (Minnesota)

**  NAACP seeks removal of Confederate statue.  (Randolph County, North Carolina.  The NAACP wanting something Confederate gone.  Whoever could imagine that?)

**  History as it Happens:  Charlottesville  says goodbye to the Confederacy.  (Virginia.  I say "Good riddance" to that town.)

**  Groups respond to Talbot County filing motion to dismiss lawsuit to relocate statue. (Maryland.  Those "Talbot Boys" you know.)

AUGUST 18, 2021

**  Confederate monuments:  Atlanta removing 'Lion of the Confederacy' statue from Oakland Cemetery.  (Georgia.  It is being removed because of near constant hate crimes committed against it by certain "unknown" persons.  This is sad.  There is a picture of a fairly recent hate crime to the right of this.)

I have to wonder what those certain persons would think if the hate crimes were committed against one of "their" statues?

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Charlottesville, Who Gets It, Frosh Speaks, Florida

AUGUST 11, 2021

**  More than a dozen organizations apply to acquire Charlottesville's toppled  Confederate monuments.  (Sad Virginia.  Notice they didn't put the removal up for a public vote.  Guess they learned a lesson in last November's voting.  As long as none of them go to a black organization or museum.)

**  County looks to remove Confederate statue after removal last summer.  (North Carolina)

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AUGUST 12, 2021

**  Frosh joins calls for removal of Confederate Talbot Boys statue.  (Maryland)

**  Email records:  Historical Commission members  'disappointed' in Polk's  Confederate memorial vote.  (Polk County, Florida)

--Old Secesh