Why Not Rename Fort Bragg After the Union General Bragg, Not the Confederate One? A Surprise Vote on School Names in Jacksonville

MAY 20, 2021

**  King George Confederate monument will be discussed in June.  (Virginia)

**  Wisconsin senator proposes renaming  Fort Bragg after  Union cousin of Confederate general.  (A state senator wants it named after Braxton Bragg's  cousin, Union General  Edward Stuyvesant  Bragg of Wisconsin.  Good idea.  That way they wouldn't have to go through all that expense of changing the name.  I had never heard of this Union general and will have to do some more research.)

**  Duval  County school stakeholders vote to rename  5 schools named for Confederate leaders.  (Jacksonville, Florida.  I bet everyone of them will be named after black folks.  Well, that was my thought at first, but looking at the new names, they definitely aren't:

Joseph Finnegan Elementary to Anchor Academy

Stonewall Jackson Elementary to  Westside Academy

Jefferson Davis Middle School to Westside Middle School

J.E.B. Middle School to  Westside Middle School (However these last two are the same name.)

Robert E. Lee High School to Riverside High School

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Voters chose to keep the names of three schools:

Jean Ribault Middle School

Jean Ribault High School

Andrew Jackson High School

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The last time a school name was changed in Jacksonville it cost $180,000.

--Old Secesh

So Sad About That VMI: Louisiana, Jeb Stuart, Congress, Trump Veto and North Carolina

DECEMBER 7, 2020

**  Virginia Military Institute removes Confederate statue.  (That of Stonewall Jackson.  Talk about a crime.  So sad.)

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

**  Virginia  Military Institute begins work to remove prominent statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas Stonewall' Jackson.  What next, dishonor those VMI cadets who fought and died at the Battle of New Market?)

**  Patriotic texts  ordered at Confederate statue before it goes.  (Louisiana)

**  Park trail named after Confederate general Jeb Stuart renamed.  (Montgomery County, Maryland.)

**  Congress plans to strip Confederate names from US bases, including Fort Bragg.

**  House approves   defense bill  amid Trump veto threat.

**  North Carolina country commissioners vote to remove monument.

--Old Secesh

Now, Even Golf? Virginia, North Carolina, Black Cemeteries and School Names

 SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

**  Hanover School Board agrees  on new names for schools memorializing Confederate leaders.  Hanover County, Virginia.  Lee Davis High School could soon be renamed Mechanicsville High School.  Stonewall Jackson Middle School could be named Bell Creek.)

**  Lexington amends lawsuit to remove Confederate statue immediately.  (North Carolina.  Want it removed now and stored until lawsuit finalized.)

**  A counter to Confederate monuments, black cemeteries tell a fuller story of the South.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

**  Despite push, few schools have dropped Confederate names.  (An analysis says that just 11 of 211 schools have had names changed.  Plus they want names changed of all schools named after anyone who opposed integration.)

**  Lexington calls Confederate monument 'figurative powder keg' that must be moved for public safety.  (North Carolina.   Only is the BLMers and their white minions get violent.)

**  What's in a name?  For some clubs in the South, uneasy ties to the Confederacy.  (Secession Golf Club in Beaufort, South Carolina.  The names of five tees carried Civil War names: Lee, Jackson, Stuart, Grant and Sherman, have been changed to important club members.  Kind of strange that a a South Carolina golf course would have a tee named for Sherman after his March Through the Carolinas.

Also, the First National Confederate flag has been replaced on the club's logo with the S.C. flag.  And, a copy of the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession has been removed from the clubhouse.  Even changing the name was considered, but not done.

Got Confederate-Free Golf?  --Old Secesh

Did You Hear the One About Sad R.'s Mayor and His Donor? Confused Ole Miss Football Players.

AUGUST 30, 2020


**  Richmond's top  prosecutor  declines to investigate Confederate statue removal contract awarded to Stoney donor.  (Sad R., Va.  Stoney is the mayor.  The donor received $1.8 million for the removals and his company was formed just a few days before the contract.  Something's rotten here if you ask me.  Kickbacks, anybody?  Must be nice to have friends in high places.)

**  Preservation of history:  Unwanted  Confederate monuments may soon find a new home.  (Ellenbrook home in Elk Garden, Virginia, will take them.  This was the home of William Alexander Stuart, a brother of Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart.  If I ever return to Virginia, I'll go there instead of Sad R.)

**  Petition wants to replace Confederate statue for Chadwick Boseman.  (Anderson, S.C..  Boseman, who just recently died, was the star of "42" about Jackie Robinson and "The Black Panther" and grew up in Anderson.  I agree that a privately funded statue of him is in order, but not replacing the Confederate statue.  Put it up somewhere else in the city.)

**  Saturday protest held over relocation of Confederate statue with no incidents.  (Weatherford, Texas)

**  Ole Miss football team protests police brutality  in front of Confederate monument.  (They probably did not know that there have been no instances where a Confederate monument attacked an Ole Miss football player.  Head football coach was with them.  Time to find a new head football coach Ole Miss.)

**  I know there are a lot of people who don't like the nickname of the University of Mississippi which is the Rebels.  Maybe they should change it to University of Mississippi Black Lives Matter or BLMers for short. 

Ole Miss BLMers.  Nice Ring to It, Right?   --Old Secesh

About the Stuart Monument. Twelve Down, 199 More to Go.

AUGUST 8, 2020


**  Marching home:  Confederate monument foe works with Stuart descendant to send statue to general's birthplace.  (Sad Richmond, Va.  Sad Richmond City Councilman Michael Jones, a black minister, is throwing his support to James E. B. Stuart of Richmond, the general's great-great grandson, in his attempt to move it to Patrick Co., Va.

The statue is covered in red paint and at one time even had a noose placed around its neck.  I thought BLMers didn't like nooses.  Oh well.  Here's hoping the statue gets moved to Patrick County.  Here's hoping that BLM doesn't go after it there.)

**  Despite Confederate monument  removals, debate over  effigies in Georgia still red-hot.   (Of the original 211 monuments in the state,  a dozen have been removed.  Contains a map showing where statues still stand and where they have been removed.  The article starts with the words "Georgia has exorcised some of its ghosts in recent years...."  How do you think the writer stands?)

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AUGUST 9, 2020

**  Opinion:  Flags everywhere, always  (Asheville Citizen-Times.  Where do you think Sad Asheville stands.)

**  Sarasota artist wants repeal of Confederate honors.  (Florida.  Lists Florida laws that are pro-Confederate.  Imagine an artist that would be for the Confederacy?  Are there any?)

--Old Secesh

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

The Second Civil War: South Carolina, Univ. of Texas, JEB Stuart and Raleigh

JULY 13, 2020


**  Legal change could be slow for controversial  SC memorials.   The Heritage Act requires legislature to remove statues.  John C. Calhoun statue taken down.  Wade Hampton statue and others might be coming down.

**  University of Texas  making changes after  Black athlete demands; football field renamed.  Jo Jamail Field at Darrell K. Royall Stadium has been renamed the Campbell/Williams Field after their Heismann Award winners Earl Campbell and Ricky Williams.

There was also a movement to get rid of the "Eyes of Texas" saying it had racial undertones.  It will be kept with maybe some word changes.  I saw the words to it and couldn't pick out anything racial about it.

**  Fort Worth Star-Telegram keeps up with the Confederadication better than any newspaper I've seen.  So, if you want more information, go there.

** Descendant of JEB Stuart  wants statue at his birthplace.  (You know the statue they took down in Sad Richmond a short time ago.)

**  Workers removing statue of antebellum North Carolina chief justice.  (Raleigh   Thomas Ruffin.  This was done because of his opinion that overturned  the conviction of a slave owner for shooting a slave in the back after refusing his orders.

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack: Stuart, Pensacola, Trump, Schools, A "No" Vote!! and Democrats

JULY 8, 2020


**  Another Confederate statue in Richmond,Va., comes down along Monument Avenue.  (JEB Stuart   Evidently, the Lee statue is still up.)

**  City issues memorandum  recommending removal of Pensacola's Confederate  monument.  (Florida)

**  Trump turns clock back 155 years with Confederacy-inspired  election strategy.  (CNN   I just can't believe this news organization would say something like this.  Especially since the Democrats are really playing up to Blacks.)

**  Grand Ledge  school officials  to consider banning Confederate flag.  (Michigan  I wonder what they think about anything with BLM on it?  Some folks consider that rather offensive.)

**  Mississippi board votes 'no' on moving Confederate monument.  (Oxford  Lafayette County.  All white male board.  Hard to believe that in this post-Floyd era that something like this could happen.  Ole Miss is in Oxford and they have already removed their statue.)

**  Descendants weigh in on debate over Confederate symbols.  (ABC News   These are the descendants of Confederate generals.)

**  House Democrats  include removal of Confederate  statues in the funding bill.  (remove statues and busts of  those who served in the Confederacy or have "unambiguous  records of racial intolerance."   Some of this last group include Charles Aycock, John C. Calhoun, James Paul Clark and Roger B. Taney.)

(Since those who were in the Confederacy are in the capital, I would support removing them because they fought against the United States.)

**  Ohio has always had Confederate apologists.

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Seattle, Virginia Schools, "Fame", Louisiana Stands Up. Clergy and The Richmond Orgy

JULY 7, 2020


**  Memorial to Confederate soldiers toppled at Capitol Hill's Lake View Cemetery.  (Seattle, Washington.  At the time it was unknown who did it.)

**  Virginia schools quickly drop Confederate names, this time ignoring  calls to preserve 'history.'

**  After 111 years, Salisbury Confederate monument "Fame" is now being moved.  (North Carolina)

**  East Feliciana Parish leaders  won't remove Confederate statue.  (Louisiana.  Wow.  Politicians with a backbone.)

**  Clergy call for removal  of Confederate monument  at Rutherford County Courthouse.  (North Carolina)

**  Richmond removes statue of Confederate Gen JEB Stuart.  (The Statue removal Orgy Continues.  Thanks mayor and governor.)

--Old Secesh