Even a Stephen Foster Statue? Lee Statue, No Confederate Flags or Others, CMA

JUNE 30, 2022

**  Why the decommissioned Stephen Foster statue is going to Los Angeles.  (Pittsburgh.  Had a black man playing a banjo at his feet.  Oh, well,)

**  JSAAHC weighs in on Lee statue lawsuit.  (Jefferson School African-American Heritage Center in Charlottesville,Virginia.  They want to "modify" it.  They shouldn't have gotten it in the first place.)

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JULY 1, 2022

**  Only American  flags, U.S. military symbols in Redmond 4th of July parade.  (Oregon.  That means no Confederate , pride, BLM or MAGA allowed.  That's fair enough.  If we can't have our flag, they can't have theirs.)

**  CMA  Fest bans Confederate flag imagery at  country music fest.  (I wonder of that also applies to the other groups mention in the above headline?  So CMA goes the way of NASCAR.)

--Old Secesh

Removing Monuments, Renaming Streets Russian Oil= Confederate Cotton

APRIL 9, 2022

**  Tiny town Trump won with 63% of vote seeks to remove Confederate monument.  (Owensboro, Kentucky.  This story based on the efforts of SPLC and NAACP.  Somewhat questionable.)

**  St. Landry to decide on removal of Confederate monument.  (Louisiana)

**  Signs can't explain why  Confederate monument still stands.  (Elizabeth City, North Carolina)

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APRIL 10, 2022

**  Two more Missouri City streets with Confederate ties renamed to Prosperity.  (Missouri City, Texas)

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APRIL 11, 2022

**  Op-Ed:  Russian oil  is as morally tainted as Confederate cotton.

**  Orange  Confederate  monument petition starter:  move from  courthouse to battlefield makes sense.  (Orange County)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Trump Rally, Tuskegee, Confederate Flags, California

JANUARY 31, 2022

**  Trump's Texas rally:  Confederate flags, conspiracies, JFK Jr.'s ghost.  (Rolling Stone)

**  Judge to hear suit over Confederate memorial in Tuskegee.  (Alabama)

**  "Vile, violent, and hateful":  Leaders denounce Nazi, Confederate flags at Ottawa protest.  (Canada.  Confederate flags have nothing to do with Nazi flags.)

**  California city named for Confederate general declines to change name... for now.  (Fort Bragg, California)

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Now They're Upset With Confederate Money. Trump, Brooklyn, Costs of Removing, Florida

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

**  Broward exhibit shows how Confederate money reinforced slavery.  (Florida.  Well, the money showed scenes of slaves working out in the field.)

**  Trump's personal head wanted to fire defense secretary because he  opposed Confederate flags on bases.

**  The chance to rename Brooklyn's General Lee Avenue is here.  (New York.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2021

**  Confederate statues may be gone,  but they continue to cost local taxpayers.  (North Carolina.  Statues either "toppled" by protesters (hate crime) or removed by local governments.  Chatham County paying $300 a month to store its Confederate statue.

**  Bartow's Confederate  marker moves to Oak Hill Cemetery.  (Florida.  Removed in secrecy.)

Save Your Confederate Money.  The South's Gonna Rise Again.  -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

About That Racist Confederate Flower. Juneteenth and Stone Mountain

MAY 29, 2021

**  First-ever Juneteenth celebration  planned in Decatur.  (Georgia)

**  First Memorial Day  after Trump:  Americans need to honor those who saved the Union.

**  Williams:  Once again, a vote against the Confederacy  is a ticket off the Hanover  School Board.

**  Longnecker: Race, slavery, statues, monuments

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MAY 30, 2021

**  Changes are coming to the nation's largest Confederate monument.  Are they enough?

**  The Confederacy's final resting place.

**  Darrell  Blackwelder column:  Confederate jasmine is a blooming vine that does well here.  (Guess the name will have be changed.  You know, a very racist plant and all.)

**  Sohn:  Stone Mountain's ugly  history to get a new rewrite.   (Do you get the idea that columnists are agin' us?)

Must Change That Confederate Flower Name.  Racist Flower You Know.  --Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Still Trump, 'Lost Cause', Hillbillies, Biden, Georgia, Alabama, Capitol Riot and Lee

JANUARY 25, 2021

**  Letter:  Ship Confederate statues to Mar-A-Lago's front lawn.

**  Are we witnessing the emergence of a new 'Lost Cause'?

**  Trump is threatening to form the Patriot Party.    That name has already been used -- by 'hillbilly socialists."  (From the nonpartisan Washington Post.  Yeah, you crackers.)

**  Will Biden be able to heal the US?

**  Confederate namesakes among Augusta issues lingering behind pandemic. (Georgia)

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JANUARY 26, 2021

**  A racist  emblem still lives on Alabama's state seal.  Will the Confederate flag finally die in 2022?

**  Man who carried Confederate flag in Capitol riots waved preliminary hearings.

**  'Robert E. Lee and Me' dismantles  Confederate mythology.  (New book on Lee and the "Lost Cause."

--Old Secesh

Oh! That Confederate Flag!!! 'Confederate Flag Guy' Again. Let the People Vote, Not Politicians.

JANUARY 15, 2021

**  Man holding Confederate flag in Capitol during pro-Trump protest  turns himself in.  (The "Confederate Flag Guy."  From Delaware.)

**  Several more Capitol  rioters have been arrested including man who carried Confederate flag.  (New York Times.  I bet they are so happy.  Remember this during the summer BLM riots, guys.)

**  Op-ed:  Why it wasn't surprising to see Capitol rioters waving the Confederate flag.  (Chicago Tribune.)

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JANUARY 16, 2021

**  After year of racial reckoning, black lawmakers believe they can finally eliminate Confederate Heroes Day in Texas.

**  Stone Mountain Park official:  Confederate flags protected by law.

**  The ugly symbolism of Confederate flag in the Capitol.  (Chicago Sun-Times.  Unfortunately, the media seems more upset that there was a Confederate flag in the Capitol even more than the fact it was a crowd intent on disrupting and threatening the federal government while doing government business.)

**  Gwinnett officials vote to remove  Confederate statues from city square.  (Georgia.  I always hate to see politicians voting on this instead of the people.  So often, the politicians in the South are speaking for minorities when they do this, not the majority of the people.

Let the People Vote!!  --Old Secesh

Confederadication: VCU, Confederate Flags, Trump, Lost Cause, Tarred and Feathered and a Portrait

JANUARY 9. 2021

**  VCU begins removing Confederate  names from buildings  (Virginia Commonwealth University.  You'll never guess what city this institution is located in?)

**  Explained:  The significance of the Confederate flag  being waved  inside the US Capitol.

**  Confederate flag tied to the door of Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.

**  What Trump shares with the 'Lost Cause' of the Confederacy.  (New York Times.  Surprise, surprise, surprise.)

**  Pentagon appoints Trump loyalist to Confederate  base renaming commission.  (Politico)

**  Confederate statue in Allendale 'tarred and feathered' by groups seeking removal.  (Michigan.  This was done by two black activist groups who say things like this will continue.  They are not afraid of getting in trouble because all of it will wash off.  The statue has a Union soldier and a black child)

**  The whole story in a single picture.  (The guy with the Confederate flag in US Capitol.)

**  Confederate general's portrait in SC will remain 'scorched'.  (Burned in a fire nearly a century ago, so BLM didn't do it.  Portrait of Wade Hampton.  Aiken County Historical Museum is going to restore it but leave scorch marks.)

--Old Secesh

The Confederacy Under Attack...Again: About That Flag in the Capitol. Mississippi Flag, U.S. Capitol Riot

JANUARY 7, 2021

**  A harrowing photo shows a Trump supporter carrying a Confederate flag inside  the US Capitol, flanked by  portraits of Civil War-era figures.  (Again, that person should not have been in there regardless of what he was carrying.  Nice photo.  Hopefully they will be able to track him down and prosecute.)  

Of interest, he is walking by the paintings of two men who had pre Civil War connections.    Charles Sumner to the  right and John C. Calhoun to the  left.

**  New Mississippi flag without  Confederate symbol being put into law.  (Again, I would have liked it to be put up to a referendum back in November to see what the people of the state really think.  Not just a group of politicians.)

**  Live updates:  1 dead after pro-Trump mob breaches Capitol, National Guard called in.

**  It's long past time to stop honoring Confederate leaders.

**  The most surreal images from the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol.  (Again, the guy with the you-know-what flag.)

--Old Secesh

Goodbye Fort Hood. Last Civil War Widow Dies. The Problem with Those Confederate Statues and License Plates and That Flag Inside the Capitol

JANUARY 6, 2021

**  Defense bill will force Fort Hood to change its name.  (Texas)

**  The last known  widow of a Civil War veteran has died in Missouri.  She was 101.  (Okay, not exactly Civil War II stuff, but of extreme interest to me.)

**  New Mississippi flag without rebel symbol being put into law.  (Now maybe those state colleges will be able to fly the flag of their state.  I still believe that they shouldn't have received any state funding during their refusal to fly the old flag.)

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JANUARY 7, 2021

**  Billboard taken down after calling for removal of Confederate statue.  (Allendale Township, Michigan.  Removed because of complaints.  Text on it:  "Remove the racist  Confederate statue."

**  SC bills seek to ban  vaccine mandates, Confederate  license plates.

**  Trump-supporting rioter pictured carrying a Confederate flag inside US Capitol.  (Not to mention all those US and Trump flags in there and outside.  So, Confederates finally captured the Capitol after failing to do so in 1864.)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: The Depths of Sad R. Fort Trump, Base Names, License Tags and Monuments

JANUARY 6, 2021

**  "Fort Trump":  President wants to rename a base honoring a Confederate for himself.

**  Defense act override sets stage for renaming  10 army bases honoring Confederate leaders.

**  Editorial:  Banish SC Confederate  license tags -- and take these away with them.  (South Carolina.  Wants ALL vanity tags vanished.

**  Court date has not been set to determine ownership of  of Rapides Confederate monument.  (Louisiana)

**  Metro Parks unanimously to petition the state for removal of  Confederate private monument from Centennial Park.    (Nashville, Tennessee.   I see BLM has been busy at the monument.)

**  An museum once led by a major Confederate sculptor wants to display a defaced Jefferson Davis.  (Valentine Richmond History Center.  Well, Sad R. you know.  No surprise there.  I still say there is something wrong with their water to make so many people lose their sanity like that.  And Sad R. making no effort to clean up the mess they allowed BLM to make.  One city I don't ever plan to visit.)

--Old Secesh

Hopefully Some Media Outlets Will Learn That Confederate Should Be Capitalized. Democrats Have Dropped the South and Are Now the Party of the BLM.

JANUARY 5, 2021

**  Legal challenge to Dallas' removal of Confederate memorial fails in appeals court.  (Texas.  Big surprise there.)

**  The Confederacy won (or thinks they won.)  (Boston Globe)

**  SC legislator  fighting to remove confederate (Confederate)  flag from license plates.  (WPDE.  You'd think someone there might know that Confederate is a proper name and should be capitalized.  Maybe they know the word should be capitalized, but are doing this to yank my chain?)

**  Trump's Republicans have dumped Lincoln  -- they're the Confederacy now.  (I might add that the Democrats have dumped the South and are the BLM Party now.  Anybody ever hear of a Yellow Dog Democrat in the South Before 1960?))

**  Process to remove confederate (Confederate) statue in Caldwell County continues months after approval.  (Looks like KXAN would know that Confederate is a proper name and should be capitalized.  Texas.  Who will pay the $20,000 to take it down and relocate it.  I think those that want it gone should pay.  Hey, put your money where your mouth is.)

So, What Was a Yellow Dog Democrat?  --Old Secesh

About That Disgrace That Took Place Yesterday in D.C.

Those pictures of the Trump mob swarming over the outside and inside of the U.S. Capitol was alarming to say the least.  The fact that a group like this could get into the building and interrupt the workings of the government is unbelievable.

I hope never to see it again.  The photos of the idiots all over the outside and inside the Capitol are ingrained in my mind now, along with the Twin Towers burning on 9/11.  I hope the authorities are able to track them down and prosecute (at least better than they did with the BLM agitators).

I did find the media's comments on what happened of interest.  NBC, ABC and CNN came out and called what happened riots.  And, they were.

However, I saw that during last summer's Days of Rage by the BLM and their white minions, that the rioting, burning, looting and hate crimes committed were called civil unrest.

Hey, boys and girls, a riot is a riot is a riot.

I hope never to see pictures like those idiots climbing all over the Capitol again.

Look Like a Riot.  Is a Riot.  Let's Call Them As They Are.  --Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Renaming Those Confederate Army Bases

JANUARY 4, 2021

**  Letters:  Push Confederate Polk aside,  honor Chennault, a genuine Louisiana hero.  (Fort Polk in Louisiana to have name changed.  Suggesting Claire Chennault, WW II hero. I can go for that.  I am just hoping that not ALL the Confederate fort names will be renamed after Blacks.  Maybe two or three should be so honored, but not every fort.)

**  Three Virginia bases including Fort Lee  to be renamed.

**  Veto override means Fort Lee will get a new name.   Here's the process involved in getting there.  A Congressional committee will be appointed in 45 days and they have until October 2022 to come up with a list of names.  This search process will cost $2 million.  Then it will cost considerably more to actually change the names.

**  Mississippi legislators set to finalize magnolia-themed flag.

--Old Secesh

Read About the Virginia Judge. Still Making Year End Reviews. What About the Cemeteries?

JANUARY 2, 2021

**  Congress overturns Trump veto on defense bill after political detour.

**  Virginia judge won't try black man in court room lined with white portraits.  (Well, Virginia.  Go figure.)

**  Top 10 stories of 2020  No. 8:  Downtown  monument center controversy.

**  Streets in Brooklyn honoring Confederate  figures to be renamed  under defense bill.

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JANUARY 3, 2021

**  Ryan K. Smith column:  The afterlives of Confederate monuments.  (Sad R.  What about Confederate statues in cemeteries?)

**  Activists vow to continue fight against 'Talbot Boys' Confederate monument in county seat on Maryland East Shore.  (This likely means BLM hate crimes.)

**  Sons of Confederate Veterans opposes flag removal from seal.  (Williamson County, Tennessee)

--Old Secesh

Please Don't Name Every Army Base After a Black Person. Maryland, Alabama, Trump and Republicans

DECEMBER 30, 2020

**  Maryland may  repeal state song, a Confederate call to arms.  (Bad, bad, Maryland.)

**  Letter:  Local pastor says Confederate monument, flag at county courthouse. (Albertville, Alabama.  The pastor is a white man.)

**  President Donald Trump fumes at Republican leadership, revives slur against  Elizabeth Warren.

**  25 House Republicans abandon support for troops to protect Confederate monuments.  (66 House Republicans voted against overriding Trump's veto and 25 of them had previously supported the bill.)

**  Myron B. Pitts:    Fort Bragg name to become a thing of the past -- good.  (Suggests other names.  Some are actually white people.  I don't mind changing the fort names. just please don't name every single one after a black person.  After all, whites have had something to do with the U.S. Army over the years, believe it or not.)

**  SC Heritage Act lawsuit protecting  Confederate monuments sparks top Republican fight.

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Louisiana, Arlington House, Fort Bragg, Activists, Trump's Mentality and Texas

DECEMBER 25, 2020

**  White supremacist's statue off Louisiana high court steps.  (Edward  White.  Also a member of U.S. Supreme Court.  His crimes:  Fought for the Confederacy and upheld racial segregation laws.)

**  Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee memorial, must be renamed. (Washington Post.  Big surprise they'd say that.    Excuse me, but wasn't the reason for Arlington National Cemetery being there a slap in the face to Lee in the first place?  Does this mean the name of the cemetery must also be changed?)

**  Top stories of 2020:    Push to rename Fort Bragg, installations named after Confederate generals.  (Fayetteville, North Carolina)

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

**  Activists don't want Confederate monuments, larger issues to be swept under the rug in 2021.  (But, why weren't the activists out there activating against Confederate monuments before Floyd?  Did they know those statues were there and had been for over 100 years?  Inquiring minds want to know.)

**  The Confederate Mental States of Trump.

**  A historic pandemic, Confederate statue, Floyd protests among top stories for 2020.  (Denton. Texas.  Confederate statue removed from court house.  When are they going to quit calling what happened in the wake of George Floyd's death protests or civil unrest.  They were RIOTS, LOOTING, BURNING and HATE CRIMES.)

Come On.  Those "Protests" Were Riots.  --Old Secesh

Trump Vetoes Defense Bill. Big Surprise There. 'Roll Tide' and 'Gator Bait', A Big Surprise from Virginia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

**  From 'Roll Tide' to 'Gator Bait', college football reckons with problematic traditions.  (These are Confederate or Antebellum-related.  Very interesting article.  I will write about it soon in my Saw the Elephant: Civil War blog.

**  Show of force on US streets and crisis at Fort Hood tested army secretary this year.  Also renaming Confederate bases.

**  Trump vetoes colossal $740 billion defense bill, breaking with Republican-led Senate.  (He did as he said he would do, evidently.  Again, I am in favor of renaming the bases, but, please not all black people.  Regardless of how good a man the Confederate officers were, the fact is that they still chose to fight their country.)

**  Fort Benning is named for a slave-owning secessionist.  That could soon change.  (Georgia)

**  Warner:  'I look forward' to overriding Trump's veto of defense partly over Confederate issue.  (Senator Mark Warner of Virginia.  From Virginia?  Surprise.  He's a Democrat?  Another surprise.)

**  With hate crimes on the rise, GOP senators go all-in for racist statues.  (Yep.  Lots of hate crimes being committed against Confederate statues and symbols these days.)

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Editorial, Trump, Veto, Kentucky, Georgia, School Name, Sad R.

DECEMBER 17, 2020

**  Tulsa World (Oklahoma) Editorial:  Trump should sign bill  that allows more  appropriate choice of who we want to honor with military base names.

**  Trump says he will veto $740 billion defense bill, breaking with Republican-led Senate.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

**  Jessamine's Confederate statue sits near site of lynching.  Time for it to move.  (Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky)

**  Cobb students continue push to remove Confederate general's name from school.  (Wheeler High School, Georgia)

**  Richmond Highway to replace Confederate street name.  (Sad R.  Will rename Jefferson Davis Highway.  Big surprise.)

--Old Secesh