Civil War II: Those Confederates in the Attic, Service Academies and Time Capsules

AUGUST 31, 2022

**  Doug Mastrianio:  Pa's Confederate in the attic.  (That Pennsylvania governor thing again.  A play on words of a popular Civil War book, "Confederates in the Attic.")

**  West Point has a KKK plaque mounted above entrance to Science Hall.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

There are many articles, but I only list the new ones or ones that give more information on one.

**  CAIR supports call to drop Confederate names from Naval Academy.  (Those Islamic folks again.  I wonder what they call for in regards to 9/11?)

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

**  Federal lawsuit seeks removal of Confederate statue outside  Georgetown courthouse.

**  Contents of Macon Confederate statue time capsules.  (Georgia.  About the only good thing coming from these removals.)

--Old Secesh

West Point and Annapolis Confederate Names. That Mastriano Thing Still

AUGUST 30, 2022

**  Reparations, and a lawsuit on NC Confederate  statue removal.  (North Carolina)

**  Military commission recommends dropping Confederate names at West Point.

**  West Point and Naval Academy  should scrub names of Confedrate officers, panel tells Congress.

**  Replace  Navy ship's Confederate name with that of immigrant oceanographer.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

**  Republicans endorse Shapiro following  Mastriano Confederate uniform.  (Pennsylvania.  How dumb can you be?)

**  Doug Mastriano's Confederate  cosplay  is dumb and dangerous.  (MSNBC News.  That surprises me that they would say something like that.)

--Old Secesh

Wearing a Confederate Uniform Is Definitely Not a Crime Even If It Offends Certain Folks

AUGUST 28, 2022

**  It is unbelievable how many articles are out there about Doug Mastriano who is running for Pennsylvania governor and in the past wore a Confederate uniform.  Big whoop.  What's so bad about that?

**  Some Pennsylvania Republicans defend Mastriano for posing in Confederate uniform.  (So who is going to be offended?  WWMs, BLMers, NAACPers and SPLCers.)

**  The photo in question was taken in 2013-2014 and others were also in battle clothes from different eras.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

**  Mayor speaks about racist letters spread in Enfield just days  after Confederate monument bulldozed.  (North Carolina.  What the mayor had done to the monument was nothing short of racism.)

**   Military commission recommends dropping Confederate names at West Point.

If a Confederate Uniform Offends You, Just Close Your Eyes and Think of Unicorns.  --Old Secesh

Slaves Back Then and Gun Ownership Today

AUGUST 26, 2022

**  Counties with more slaves in 1860 have higher gun ownership.

**  Doug Mastriano wore a Confederate Army uniform in an Army War College faculty photo. (He is a candidate for Pennsylvania governor.  And, Trump backed.  So?)

**  New name for Camp Beauregard?  Louisiana National Guard to host open house on renaming base.

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AUGUST 27, 2022

**  Removing Confederate monuments in Jacksonville:  Funding may be renamed.  (Again, complete costs should be paid by those who want them removed.

Put Your Money Where Your Mouths Are.  --Old Secesh

Civil War II: About That Lee Pedestal, Muslims and Pennsylvania Revises Markers

DECEMBER 13, 2021

**  Northam to remove Lee statue pedestal, transfer land to city.  (Virginia's governor.)

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

**  City removes mysterious new statue from site of former  Dallas Confederate  memorial.  (Dallas, Texas.  It was also removed.)

**  Nation's largest Muslim civil rights group voices support  for removing Tuskegee's Confederate monument. (Alabama.  That's a good one.  Islamic civil rights?  I kind of doubt it.)

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

**  Pennsylvania revises  Confederate markers, recasts them as 'enemy' soldiers.  (Maybe Southern states should revise markers and put up new ones recounting the horrors civilians faced from Union occupation units.)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Flags, High Schools, Canada, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Texas

OCTOBER 30, 2021

**  Lucy Beckham  High parents call for action after  Confederate flag incident.  (South Carolina.  I wonder what race these parents are?)

**  Hilton  student to face discipline for wearing a c(C)onfederate flag at school.  (Hilton, NY.  Come on, Rochester First, PROPER NAME!!   Also, would a student wearing BLM or NAACP be disciplined?)

**  As Confederate  statues come down, a retired soldier on how he broke with the lost cause.

**  Confederate flag removed from Kelowna Halloween display.  (Canada)

**  Should government landmarks named for historical Confederate  figures be renamed?

**  Confederate symbols spark concerns on Athens High's America Day.  (A student was wearing a "Confederate-style Gadsden flag.  (Pennsylvania.  I don't think Confederate troops ever carried that flag into battle.)

**  Will Kentucky follow Texas' lead and pass anti-critical race  theory legislation?

--Old Secesh

Even Grand Theft Auto? Come On, MAN!! Flags, Army Bases, and Instead Of, Build One

OCTOBER 24, 2021

**  GTA fans notice Confederate flag removed in remastered version, say developers have 'become the thing they mocked for so long.'  (Grand Theft Auto:  Vice City.  Evidently one of those video games.  Which likes to provoke controversy.)

**  Parents are furious after two students wear Confederate  flags to school.  (Pennsylvania)

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

**  Stripping  military bases of Confederate names stirs passions.  (Personally, I am in favor of it.  They did choose to fight against the United States after all.)

**  Instead of removing a Confederate statue, Tennessee town erects a new one to black Union soldiers.  (Like I said, this is the correct way to go in these situations.)

--Old Secesh

Virginia 'Woke.' Community Colleges, Texas, Georgia, Lynching, Confederate Flags, and a Union Monument

OCTOBER 11, 2021

**  Virginia changes names  of multiple community colleges amid racial reckoning.  (Washington Post.  Big surprise they'd write something like this.  You must mean "Woke."

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

**  Caldwell County Courthouse Confederate monument will move to museum.  (Texas)

**  Georgia students suspended after making plans to protest Confederate flag.

**  Confederate monuments  and the history of lynching in the American South.  (I doubt that any statue lynched anybody.)

**  Norwin students wear Confederate flag to school.  (Pennsylvania)

**  County hopes to meet with Union monument owners.  (Perquimans County, North Carolina.  They want to move it to the courthouse, where there is a Confederate monument.  This monument is dedicated to black soldiers in the war.  I can definitely go with that.  All sides of history need to be shown.)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Virginia, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania

AUGUST 26, 2021

**  Alexandria starts pilot program to rename Confederate-named streets.  (Virginia)

**  Residents submit suggestions for black statue where c(C)onfederate statue once stood.  (Gainesville, Florida.  Too bad WCJB doesn't know Confederate is a proper name.  And, it brings forth the question of why every removed Confederate monument needs to be replaced with one for a black person?)

**  South Fulton looks to rename  buildings and roads associated with Confederacy.  (Georgia)

**  End of an era:  Monument to Confederacy relocated.  (Mecklenburg County, Va.)

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AUGUST 27, 2021

**  Northampton Confederate removed, headed for storage.  (Virginia)

**  What will happen to the Confederate monument in Columbus?  (Georgia)

**  MARC director:  Confederate flag display was free speech.  (Pennsylvania)

--Old Secesh

Jayhawks, That Lee Statue in Sad R., Alabama, Pennsylvania and North Carolina

OCTOBER 27, 2020

**  Fort Bend, Richmond agree to remove Jaybird statue honoring white supremacists from spot near City Hall.  (Texas)

**  Judge sides with Virginia, but Lee statue stays put for now.  (Sad R.  I sure hope they hurry up and take that statue down.  What the city allowed BLMers and their white minions to do to that statue is a crime.)

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

**  Community members,  pastors, ask Albertville City Council to remove Confederate monument.  (Alabama)

**  Confederate flag case:  Salvagno to pay restitution for painting over images.  (Hancock, Pennsylvania.  Salvagno is the town's mayor.  He has a fine and will do community service.  Very mayor-like.)

**  Madison County Commission chairman explains process and decision  to move Confederate monument.  (Hunstville, Alabama)

**  Halifax voters split on referendum to move Confederate  monument.  (North Carolina.  But at least they get to vote on it.)

**  Confederate statue of Robert E. Lee will stay put in Richmond, Virginia until lawsuit resolved.  (Sad R.)

--Old Secesh

That Party City Thang. Pennsylvania, Mississippi and Forrest

 OCTOBER 1, 2020

**  Party City has promised to stop selling Confederate costumes after a mother complained--  but Amazon continues to sell similar outfits.  (Virginia.  Using the old Black Rule.)

I just went to the Amazon site and they are still selling the Confederate costumes.  Good for them.  A big company should not have to kowtow to one person.

**  Rally against Nazi, Confederate  symbols set for Wednesday at state Capitol.  (Pennsylvania)

**  Another Mississippi school removing Confederate name.  (Biloxi.  Jeff Davis Elementary School.)

**  Wrestling with the ghost of a Confederate general.  (Tennessee.  Nathan Bedford Forrest.)

--Old Secesh

Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi

 SEPTEMBER 29TH, 2020

**  Letter to the editor:  Confederate flag has a proud history.  (Indiana County, Pennsylvania.  Makes some interesting points.

**  City of Lexington asks court to order removal of Confederate monument.  (Lexington, North Carolina)

**  Collierville group to urge officials  to act on Confederate marker, racial inequalities.  (Tennessee)

**  Dublin Race Relations issues two recommendations for Confederate monument.  (Dublin, Georgia.  Remove it or add historical context.)

**  Another Mississippi school removing Confederate name.  (Biloxi.  Jefferson Davis Elementart School)

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack: Philadelphia, Party City, Georgia, Charlotte, Jews, Oregon and Mississippi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

**  Confederate monuments are falling across the nation, but in Philly, a memorial to Southern troops still stands.  (Philadelphia, Pa. It is in the National Cemetery.)

**  'Party City (business) removes Confederate soldier Halloween costumes:  'We can and must do better.'  (Another case of the Black Rule.  The Black Rule means that all it takes is one black person to object to something to have it removed.  In this case it was a white mother with two adopted black children who found the costumes to be  offensive.)

**  People voice opinions about Confederate monument in town hall meeting.  (Georgia)

**  Charlotte's monument to a Jewish Confederate was hated even before it was built.  (Charlotte, North Carolina.  Judah P. Benjamin had no connection with the city other than a week he spent there while the Confederate government was fleeing after Sad R. was captured.)

**  Oregon  Department of Education bans Confederate flags from school grounds.  (My question is if they also banned anything with BLM on it because that stands for rioting, looting, hate crimes and arson.)

**  Majority Black school closer to shedding Confederate name.  (Jackson, Mississippi.  Enrollment at Lee Elementary School is 96% Black.  The sooner the name is removed, the better.  It should have been changed a long time ago.)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: UDC and SCV Need to Take Charge of Confederate Statues on Public Land and Remove Them for Safety

AUGUST 3, 2020


**  State board to discuss Confederate monument move.  (Bentonville, Arkansas.  At least as of June 1, the statue had not been "vandalized" by BLM.  UDC has agreed to relocate it.)

**  (I'd like to see the UDC and SCV voluntarily ask to receive all statues in public places (once the ones BLM has had their way with are cleaned and repaired at BLM or someone else's cost) and relocate them to safe places from the BLM folk.  The cost of relocation should also be paid by those who want the statues removed.  Hear that, BLM?)

**  Confederate flag set ablaze as part of  'Rally for Justice' in Williamsport.  (Pennsylvania.  Organized by NAACP.  Lots of BLM stuff being worn and carried.  I reckon they had to burn the flag because there were no Confederate statues around, being in Pennsylvania as it was.)

**  Nelson County's Confederate statue draws pastor's  cry for removal.  (Virginia.  he is a black pastor.)

**  Congress likely to override Trump veto on changing Army base names, key lawmaker says.

--Old Secesh

Even National Geographic, Michigan, Virginia, Stone Mountain and Kentucky

JULY 4, 2020


**  Toppling statues is a first step toward ending Confederate myth.  (National Geographic)

**  Call for removal of Confederate statue in West Michigan sparks debates, anger, frustration.

**  Confederate monument removed from Fayetteville cemetery.  (North Carolina at owner's request.)

**  Another Confederate monument falls, this time on the West Shore.  (Pennsylvania)

**  Petition urges  Bedford County Public Schools to ban Confederate flag imagery.  (Virginia)

**  Renewed effort in Culpeper to get Confederate flag taken down.  (Virginia)

**  The world's largest Confederate monument faces  renewed calls for removal.  (That would be Stone Mountain, Georgia.  Can Mt. Rushmore be far behind?)

**  County delays decision to remove Confederate monument.  (Owensboro, Kentucky)

--Old Secesh

The Black Rule: Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, South Dakota and North Carolina

JULY 3, 2020


**  Officials delay decision on Kentucky Confederate statue.  (Owensboro)

**  Mississippi's Confederate flag is gone--   but a legacy of white supremacist  policy remains.

**  Under pressure, South Dakota police  emblem with Confederate  flag gone from view.  (Gettysburg, S.D.  At the request of George Floyd uncle.  This is an example of the "Black Rule."  All it takes is one Black to "request" something offensive be removed before spineless politicians cave in.)

**  Lee button  found in time capsule under Confederate monument.  (Raleigh, N.C.  Found under monument ordered removed for "public safety."  Well at least one good thing comes out of it. Hopefully time capsules will be found in the former Monument Avenue in Richmond.

I really hope the removed monuments, statues and memorials will not be destroyed or just "put away" forever.)

**  Four Confederate monuments to be removed in Fulton County.  (Pennsylvania)

More Confederate Symbols Have been the Victim of "The Black Rule."  --Old Secesh

The Navy, Marines, Base Names, Columbus Beheaded, NASCAR and Flags

These are headlines from various media sources.

June 12, 2020

**  Naval Academy board chair calls for removal of Confederate names from buildings.

**  US Navy joins Marines in removal of Confederate flag.

**  Trump says he  won't consider renaming  military bases named for Confederate generals.

**  KY senator wants to replace Confederate statue with one of first black Navy diver.

**  Confederates toppled, Columbus beheaded:  Protesters are  ripping down controversial statues.  (In other words, ones they don't like.  And when they topple or behead they cross the line between protester to criminal.)

**  Congress could force name change at bases honoring Confederate generals.

**  NASCAR bans Confederate flag from all  events, including races.  (Hard to see the impact at this point since no spectators are allowed.  However, hopefully those who like the flag will voice their feelings through nonattendance.)

**  Historical figures reassessed after George Floyd's death.

**  More than 2K sign petition to ban Confederate flag from Ebensburg-sanctioned events.  (Pennsylvania)

--Old Secesh

Protesters Target Confederate Statues in Recent Riots-- Part 2: Norfolk, Richmond, Nashville and Philadelphia

In Norfolk, Virginia, protesters climbed a Confederate monument and spray-painted  graffiti on its base.  Norfolk is one of the Virginia cities who have already let it be known that they will be removing the monument as soon as they are able to July 1.  (Sadly, another Southern city I will now have to boycott.)

In Richmond, Virginia, at least two of the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue, those of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Jeb Stuart were completely covered in graffiti.

Nearby, a fire burned at the headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.  The building was also covered with graffiti.

In Tennessee and Pennsylvania, statues of people who weren't Confederates but who had racist tendencies were also targeted.

The one in Nashville, Tennessee, of Edward Carmack was toppled.  Protesters (well, those committing hate crimes and getting away with it) sprayed graffiti on the statue of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo after trying to topple it.

The death of George Floyd was a miscarriage of justice.  Not as bad, but still breaking the law, the attacks on the statues is also called breaking the law.  Why do they get away with it?

Where Are the Police?  --Old Secesh