Towns Should Not Be Allowed to Sell Confederate Monuments. Arkansas, Ohio, Texas, Tennessee and Alabama

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

**  Bentonville Confederate monument to stay on National register of Historic Places (Arkansas.  Even though it has been moved.)

**  Petition askes for two Fairfield streets commemorating Confederate generals be renamed.  (Ohio.  Robert E. Lee Drive and Stonewall Lane.)

**  Enterprise editorial:  Beaumont Council was correct  to sell Confederate statue. (Texas.  Sold it for $25,000 after asking $50,000.  Appraised at $150,000.  Towns should not be able to sell these statues.  They need to be turned over to museums or better yet SCV or UDC.  All expenses should be paid by the cities are better yet, those who want them removed.)

**  Owner of land near I-65 holding controversial Confederate general statue has died.  (Nashville, Tennessee.  Nathan Forrest.  Has been "vandalized" often.  Those are actually hate crimes.)

**  Protests  continue in Albertville for the removal of Confederate monument and flag. (Alabama.  A fence was put up around them to keep BLMers from committing hate crimes.)

--Old Secesh

Let the People Vote! Will the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Have to Go As Well?

AUGUST 8, 2020


**  FULL REPORT:  County judge  seeks vote on Confederate monument; poll question could be on November ballot.  (Gainesville, Texas.  This is the way the removal of all Confederate monuments should go, and not left up to politicians and Blacks.  I actually think that if removal was put up to a vote, most of the monuments would remain.  This is why BLMers are so much against taking a vote.

**  Letters for August 8:  Will the Vietnam  Veterans Memorial have to go too?  (Virginian Pilot.  Were bad things done by the United States in Vietnam.  Of course there were bad things.  As such, all memorials will have to go.

As a matter of fact,  bad things and atrocities have been committed in all wars by the U.S.  All war memorials will have to go.

**  Lawyer's guild says Floyd courthouse's Confederate monument sends wrong message.  (Roanoke, Va.)

**  Augusta mayor names  members of Confederate monuments task force.  (Georgia.  Guess what they're looking to do?)

**  Panel recommends Confederate statue remain on  historic list.  (Bentonville, Arkansas.  Stay on NRHP list even though it has been moved from public property to private property.)

--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

Confederate Flags in Cemeteries, Savannah, Civil Rights Movement and the NRHP

February 24, 2020

**  Deal hit to heal breach  over rebel flags in Eureka Springs Cemetery.  (Arkansas--  Someone complained.  Guess?  All it takes is one of these people to complain.  47 Confederate and 97 Union soldiers buried there.  In the past,the flags have been "removed" by an individual.

**  Panel addresses inequities  of historic Savannah monuments.  (Panel of local activists, so we know where they stand.  Personally, I would like to see more monuments to deserving Blacks.)

**  Photos: The fight for integration in Winston-Salem.  (North Carolina-- Demonstrators at the Woolworth's lunch counter where the black students were seated waving Confederate flags.  This is a big reason why Blacks dislike the Confederate flag and I don't blame them for it.  Those people "hijacked" the Confederate flag.  I hate when that happens.)

**  US 'honor roll' of historic places often ignores slavery.  (This would be the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).  I would also like to see more slavery sites on the list.)

--Old Secesh