Civil War II: Confederate History Month, Monuments and Statues

APRIL 21, 2023

**  Confederate History Month Celebration will be held this  Saturday.  (Maryland)

**  Confederate monument  stolen from ENC cemetery.  (Greenville, N.C.)

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APRIL 22, 2023

**  Trial over Charlottesville's statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee scheduled for Thirsday.  (Virginia)

**  Flowers planted at location of former downtown Confederate monument.  )Wilmington, N.C.  St least they didn't put up a monument honoring George Floyd.)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Virginia, Fire Departments, Confederate Flowers and Jacksonville

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

**  Virginia monument honors three black soldiers  executed by Confederates.  (Washington Post)

**  No Confederate flags at fire depts.  (Five Towns, New York)

**  Commentary:  As Confederate statues fall, build monuments to black heroes at risk of being forgotten.  (Here's an idea. Let the Confederate monuments stand and also build the ones to Blacks.)

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

**  Confederate Rose's large shrub, pink flowers appealing to  gardeners.  (Oh, no!!  Now we have a racist flower!!)

**  Culpeper County memorial honors story of black Civil War heroes. (Virginia.  A new monument honoring three USCT soldiers captured and executed by Confederate soldiers during the war.)

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

**  Councilman, influential  groups ask city council to postpone  vote on Confederate  monument removal.  (Jacksonville, Florida)

--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

Confederadication: Goodbye Vance. Statues, Jasmine With a Bad Name. Way to Go Rev. Rob. SPLC Speaks

MAY 17, 2021

**  Vance Monument's last days:  Demolition for removal starts today.  (Sad A., North Carolina.  And, they are not going to move it.  Just tear it down.  It stood for 120 years and they just now figured out they didn't like it?  Wonder of I can drive I-40 through that part of N.C. and not have to drive through that sad Asheville place?)

**  Letters:   Why Confederate statue must go; Columnist peddling racist lie.  (Baltimore, Md.)

**  Care guide for Confederate jasmine.  (Reckon they'll have to change the name.)

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MAY 18, 2021

**  Washington Post fact checker says  Rev.  Ron Lee is not related to Confederate general.  (The Rev. Rob Lee has been outspoken in wanting Lee gone.  Thank goodness he is not related.  But should a man of the cloth say things that are not true?  Isn't there something in the Bible about that?)

**  Changing the name and narrative:  Students lead  movement to rename schools honoring Confederates.  (This from the vaunted folks at SPLC.  And it took George Floyd for those students to realize their schools were named after you-know whats?)

--Old Secesh

Still "Silent", Confederate Flag, St. Augustine and a Confederate Rose

February 22, 2020

Again, these are headlines from newspapers and media outlets around the country.

**  Virginia is poised  to let cities remove Confederate monuments.  It's about damn time.

**  Confederate group has 45 days to return 'Silent Sam' to UNC.  (And, then what will UNC do with it?  Probably just bury it.)

**  The history of the Confederate flag and what it represents.  (A very anti-Confederate article.  What does this have to do with teens and their fashions?  Written by Jameelah Nasheed.  I reckon that explains it.  No racism here, of course.)

**  St. Augustine wants community's input on memorial to honor black troops.  (Florida--  If black troops played a role in St. Augustine during the war I'll be all for it.  You can never have too many things about history.)

**  Sharing flower cuttings is a joy.  (Andalusia Star-News,  Alabama--  This is about the Confederate Rose flower.  I reckon there will be those people who want to change this name.  You know, slavery and all.)

**  Statue of archsegregationist remains in Capitol Square.  (Richmond, Va.  -- Statue of Harry F. Byrd, Sr.  From the Richmond Free Press, a black newspaper.)

By the Way, I See That UNC Lost Another Basketball Game.  --Old Secesh