Under 5 feet tall, Sally Tomkins was a lot tougher than she looked. She was born to a family with a proud military tradition: Sally’s grandfather was given his commission by General George Washington himself. When her brother went off to fight in the Mexican War, 13-year old Sally wrote: “I hope you will be
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Few flag designs get people talking like the Rebel USA flag. It combines two of the most recognizable symbols in American history, the Stars and Stripes and the Confederate battle flag, into a single design. When we first added a Rebel USA design to our store, we knew it would stir up some controversy, and
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Many places don’t want to display the Confederate flag anymore because they think it’s supporting slavery even though it isn’t doing that at all. This town is being urged not to display it. The people are trying to pretend history never happened. This is a disturbing new trend. Holly Hill Town Council asks SCV not
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It was during Lee’s 34th year as a military officer. The date was May 6, 1864, and the Battle of The Wilderness was raging. The Wilderness is an area of dense forest in northeast Virginia. It was there that Lee had an army of 40,000, facing a Union force of 70,000. A Texas brigade was
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A lot of Confederate companies called themselves Irish at the beginning of the war, but there were only two Confederate Irish regiments: the 10th Tennessee Volunteers, and the 24th Georgia Volunteers. I have written about the 10th Tennessee in another article, known for using the “Sons of Erin” flag. The 24th Georgia is the more
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It’s a tough task to understand Robert E. Lee. He was around a very long time ago. His family had slaves, but he never purchased any though. He had contempt for the practice of keeping slaves. He said that there were people that would not acknowledge that slavery was a bad thing. Lee lived in
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In a victory for free speech, the Confederate battle flag won’t be banished from public schools in North Carolina’s Orange County. Despite pressure from the Northern Orange County NAACP chapter and local students and parents, school board members on Monday declined to adopt a system-wide ban on the rebel flag. That wise and prudent decision
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In February 2017, the Orange County Board of Education in Hillsborough, North Carolina, voted not to ban the Confederate flag from school property. The decision came despite two requests from the local NAACP and concerns from some parents and students. Instead of a ban, the board created an equity committee aimed at preventing hate speech
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Over 40 years, history lover William Atteridge built more than a thousand model replicas of Civil War ships by hand. When he died, he left the entire fleet to his son Larry, who discovered that the collection was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The story was featured in a 2017 episode of Strange Inheritance
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It is a tough time for some people because statues are being removed out of fear. There are many confederate statues that mean a lot to many people. There are many differences of opinion among people and when it interferes with other people and the things they create to remember their history, then it will
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