The fight over whether the confederate flag will fly in Ohio or not is currently under debate. Currently the state legislature is arguing over whether or not to pass a law prohibiting it to fly. This comes on the heels of a summer where this question gained national attention, with most people having an opinion. Resolution […]
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Flag burning was at times used as a form of protest against Trump during his presidential campaign, including by Johnson, who was among 17 demonstrators arrested in Cleveland this July during the Republican National Convention. Johnson spoke to ABC News last month, before the election, on the broader topics of protest and Trump after Supreme
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Tourists staying at downtown Savannah hotels near the east end of Bay Street had an interesting wake-up call Wednesday morning. It came in the form of a boom, about 9 a.m., as the U.S. Army blew up a Civil War-era explosive at Trustees Garden, just east of East Broad Street. Then came car alarms and
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My question is will the Civil War Trust and National Park Service continue to sell what may be a bogus narrative to the public, or will they look further into the story that Lee maintained his headquarters under tents in an apple orchard behind the Seminary across the road? My sources tell me the Park
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Confederate batteries opened fire. The first shots missed their target, but gunners soon established the range and shells began bursting on the ramparts of Fort Sumter. Soon the stronghold was ringed with fire and smoke, geysers of stone, brick and mortar flying skyward. This was the scene in Charleston harbor in the early hours of
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The current design of Florida’s state flag was adopted in 1900. In that year, Florida voters ratified a constitutional amendment based on an 1899 joint resolution of the state legislature to add diagonal red bars, in the form of a St. Andrew’s cross, to the flag. Florida’s state flag consisted of a white field with
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Here in the South and other, mostly rural places around the United States where the flag can still be found, often in the front yards of mobile homes, that assessment may be overconfident. Aside from still gracing the Mississippi state flag, the Southern Cross flies large along a Florida interstate, and there’s another one fluttering
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It was 4:30 in the afternoon of July 2nd, 1863. General Hood shouted, “Fix bayonets, my brave Texans. Forward and take those heights.” This was the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, and Hood’s Texas Brigade was part of a large Confederate attack. Lt. Colonel Work, of Hood’s 1st Texas Regiment, pointed to his
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Anti-Trump supporters remove a pro-Trump banner that was made by locals to reveal an even bigger political statement. You will never believe what was under the banner in the first place. Some may say it would have been better to leave the pro-Trump banner up to cover up this shocking homage to the past. Anti-Trump Vandals
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This month, volunteers planted 64 Jefferson elms, white swamp oaks, tulip poplars and Kentucky Coffee trees between the city and Monticello. Theres this huge wide median, and we decided to put an alley of large trees in it, so 40 to 50 years from now there will be this beautiful cathedral of trees on the
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