The Conch Rebellion: They Fought with Bread     It was the 1980’s, and drug smuggling was a noisy issue. Runners would take delivery of the stuff off shore, then travel north to big cities. So the Federal Government came up with a brilliant plan: the Border Patrol placed a roadblock at the northern limits of […]
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In Virginia a new battle is being fought , a battle to erase the racism of past history. The removal of historic statues is a possibility after a new movement to remove symbols of racism. It would be unfair for the statues of Lee and Jackson to be removed, and the statues of Lewis And
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Louisiana seceded from the Union on the 26th of January, 1861, becoming a sovereign nation. The Confederate States of America did not yet exist. Meanwhile this land considered itself an independent country, and was preparing for its defense. Soldiers like the one you see above were being rallied to the cause. One of the first
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One of the first flags of the Confederacy has been painstakingly restored and will be on display for a limited to for those wishing to get a glimpse at a national treasure. It will be on display as part of a fundraising opportunity at the Louisiana Area Historical Museum’s annual dinner. It will be on
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Delta State University is the last of Mississippi’s public university’s to stop flying the state flag because of its controversial symbolism displayed in the corner barring the Confederate symbol. Delta State had to make this decision because of the state’s lack of making a decision regarding the flag which is quite controversial. Last Mississippi University to
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W.H.F. Payne was a former Civil War general who represented the 2nd North Carolina Calvary. In a 1901 issue of York Daily, he talks about becoming a prisoner of war after falling into a trough. He was a prisoner of war for six months and was first held at Fort Delaware, and then Johnson’s Island,
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A commission in Charlottesville, SC, voted to keep two Confederate monuments, named the Lee and Jackson monuments. One member of the commission, John Edwin Mason, tweeted that the commission agreed to maintain these monuments as long as the meanings behind them are transformed. Some recommendations that the commission put forward in regards to these statues
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In wake of the removal of images of the confederate flag from the Washington National Cathedral leaders of the church now say they want the images of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, two Confederate generals, removed as well. This was also brought up in the wake of calls to remove any symbols representing the
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 After its birth the First National Flag of the Confederacy became known as the Stars and Bars.  Now some may raise their eyebrows, believing that term applies to the Confederate Battle Flag. I don’t want to upset anyone, but the Battle Flag was known to soldiers as the Southern Cross. (I’ve written about its
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Some art was removed from the Washington Nation Cathedral and it has many people talking. The pieces of art were stained glass windows with the confederate flag on them. There are still some remaining windows with the confederate flag and now there is quite a large discussion on what to do with them. Should cathedral
