Members of the South Carolina Secessionist Party held a rally at the capitol on Monday, July 10th, where they raised the Confederate flag on a temporary flag pole. Supporters reiterated their intent to hoist the flag each year on the anniversary of the flag’s removal from the capitol grounds. About 50 people attended in support […]
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In March of 1865, a Jewish Confederate Captain Samuel Yates Levy wrote his father from a Union prisoner of war camp, “I long to breathe the free air of Dixie.” Many Jewish Southerners rallied to their states and sacrificed their lives in battle. It was probably the largest ethnic group to serve the Confederacy, made
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Activists in New Orleans are outraged over the city council’s decision to remove Confederate statues. A resident named Richard Marksbury has filed a lawsuit in hopes that one of the statues will remain. At one demonstration, over 700 people (many of them waving Confederate flags) showed their support for keeping the monuments in place. The
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Nowhere in any other battle area of the Civil War was the fight between the just and unjust, between liberty and tyranny more clearly shown than in Missouri. Toughened by a rough-hewed frontier heritage, Missourians entered the war with a determined willingness to fight. General Van Dorn wrote to Jefferson Davis about the Missourians: “During
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Confederate monuments and memorials have been taken down across southern states in recent days. Citizens of Catawba County have been flying Confederate flags to show their support and honor of those who fought in the Civil war. In response, the NAACP believes the increase in Confederate flags has more to do with racial division in
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Many people do not want history sanitized even if that is more comfortable. They believe ignoring the negative parts can be bad for us. History which is ignored can more easily be repeated. It’s important to view the bad things in context but not to ignore them altogether. This goes for Confederate monuments and more. Key
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All of these emails prove that people feel very strongly about Confederate monuments. There is a lot of debate surrounding them. Some believe they stand for bigotry and should be removed and others feel they are part of America’s heritage and should be removed even if they are relics from an unsavory past. Lawmaker whose ‘mind
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In Richmond, Virginia two meetings of the Monument Avenue Commission have been set to give the public an opportunity to weigh in on what to do about Confederate monuments in that city. Currently, there are no plans to remove the monuments. Instead, the commission intends to place placards beside each monument to explain its historical
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“I wish I was in the land of cotton, old times there are not forgotten,
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Secession means you no longer want to be part of the United States, and there are legal ways to go about it. This New York town did it and never rejoined so technically they are not a part of it now. What does this mean for the citizens of this town? This New York Town Seceded
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