As controversy continues to swirl around the removal of Confederate history, a prominent cafe in Georgia draws attention at the refusal to remove a carving of the old Georgia state flag that bears a Confederate Army emblem. Even after a fire, the restaurant still chose to display it, simply moving the artwork to the back
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The democratic party refused to set up a booth at the Lorain County Fair in Ohio because the board allowed confederate flags to be sold. In contrast, the Ohio State Fair did not allow the confederate flag to be sold due to the controversial issues. While some feel the confederate flag is part of history
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In 2016, the town of Benson, North Carolina, honored one of its own as a “Real Daughter of the Confederacy.” Iva Lee Benson Gainey was the daughter of Charles H. Benson, who enlisted at age 20 and served as a private in Company I of the 24th North Carolina Infantry. At the time, she was
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Great things come in small packages, they say. This is certainly true of one hard working young woman named Sally Tompkins. She stood only 5 feet tall, but her good work and devotion made her a giant among mankind. Sally came from a proud family with strong military roots. General George Washington had commissioned her
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They say history is written by the winners, sometimes the wrong winners write it. The article gives a review on the book written by Phillip Thomas Tucker in which he details how the famous pickett charge has been wrongly placed as the height of the southern offensive when it was actually the barksdale charge. The
The 5th Texas Regiment had created a new and unique design for their Battle Flag. It looked like the Confederate 1st National Flag, except for one major difference. There was no circle of stars representing Confederate States, only one “lone star” in the upper corner to symbolize Texas. They called it the “Lone Star and Bars.”
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Were some of the soldiers in the Confederacy black? Derek Boyd Hankerson, a Florida native and political operative for the right, likes to think that thousands of black slaves also fought on the side of the south during the Civil War. Read more about this online at the Civil War Memory blog, by Kevin M.
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The Civil War remains the deadliest war in American history, despite later wars’ usage of superior weaponry. The weapons used in the Civil War included the Springfield Model 1861 rifle, the Henry Repeating Rifle, the LeMat Pistol, the Model 1857 12-Pounder “Napoleon” Gun, and the Gatling gun, which was the predecessor of the more modern
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In 2016, even the Los Angeles Times editorial board, hardly a friend of the Confederate flag, said California had gone too far. The state had passed a law meant to keep the Confederate flag off state property, but when it was used to pull a painting of a Civil War battle out of a county
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Is the Confederate flag a symbol of American history or a reminder of a past that many would like to forget? Recently, the Veteran Affairs Department, decided to ban the display of the Confederate Flag at any of their cemeteries. Congress rejected that plan, but President Obama chose to ignore them and impose tough restrictions
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