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
Colleges are drawing the line on Halloween costumes. Nobody can make fun of serious and sensitive issues like rape and suicide. Kids, lose that Robin Williams mask or the ghoulish Bill Cosby outfit. Though well intended, bans are like a band aid. To address the bad judgement that concludes rape or suicide is something to
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There was a switch made during a recent construction project on the heavily traveled tunnel. The banners from the other states and the Alabama flag – – has been removed from a Capitol Hill tunnel. it isn’t just routine redecorating, however. Instead, the switch comes after months of controversy over flags that use Confederate imagery.
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A $6 million project to restore the stone house and grounds that served as Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s headquarters at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania lauding by the head of a preservation group. This 4-acre property had been privately owned ever since the Civil War’s bloodiest battle, sprouting a motel, restaurant and other modern structures that dismayed
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Washington National Cathedral held a discussion on its windows honoring Confederate generals on Oct. 26, 2016. Several well known speakers were present on the discussion. Among them Civil War scholar John Coski, the Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas of the cathedral, Rex Ellis of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and moderator Ray
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History moves in strange ways. Consider the case of the Confederate ship CSS Stonewall, which never fired a shot during the Civil War. The ship was built in France to serve the Confederate navy, but thanks to staunch Union diplomatic opposition, eventually ended up in Washington without firing a shot. Ultimately the Japanese bought it
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