In 2017, a group of supporters packed a Folsom Cordova Unified School District board meeting in California to stand up for a longtime Sutter Middle School teacher. The teacher had displayed a Confederate flag as part of a Civil War history lesson and was pressured into retiring as a result. Speakers accused the board of
Sunday mornings were usually quiet at Yale University. Not so on the January 20th, 1861, when students and professors woke to find a secession flag on top of a campus building. During the night some students had raised a flag with a red cross displayed in the center. On the cross were 15 stars representing
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Did you know that Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi honor Confederate General Robert E. Lee with a public holiday on his birthday? Did you also know that his birthday just so happens to be on Martin Luther King Jr. Day? In these three states, Google Maps indicated that store hours and traffic may be affected by
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Douglas the Camel served with the 43rd Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War. By the time he became a Rebel, though, “Old Douglas” was already a veteran, having served with the U.S. Army camel brigade. Here is his back story. Jefferson Davis is well known as the President of the Confederacy, but it is less
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Zeb Vance was thought to be the chief of state in the KU Klux. This idea possibly came from a 1924 book by Susan Lawrence Davis. There is no documentation of this. There is no reference to Vance and the Klan before 1926. Thomas A. Hope stated that he had heard it talked among the
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War has rules, even in the middle of the bloodiest conflict in American history. Some of the most interesting rules of the Civil War were never written into any army manual. They were unwritten customs that soldiers on both sides agreed to follow. One of the most surprising, found in letters written by soldiers, was
This unique flag was created in Richmond, Virginia, for the 5th Texas Regiment: the “Bloody Fifth.” This was one of three Texas regiments that fought with Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Their flag was based on the design of the Confederate First National Flag, the Stars and Bars. Instead of a circle of stars representing
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It was the winter of 1861 – 1862. The 5th Texas was encamped on the Potomac River, the 5th New York across the river. The New Yorkers were a Zouave regiment, meaning they wore uniforms modeled after French Colonial soldiers. The men on both sides were known for their courage. Choice words were exchanged, explaining
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When the war came in 1861, the Confederacy’s western frontier bordered the lands of the Five Civilized Tribes: the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole Nations in Indian Territory, today’s Oklahoma. Each of the five nations signed treaties of alliance with the Confederate government, and thousands of tribal members took up arms. Among them, none
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Recently the Marana High School administration has banned the confederate flag from their campus in general. The flag is banned in every other form except for what is used in the schools curriculum. This decision in general has caused a number of students as well as parents to protest. The decision for the ban was
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