Showing posts with label civil war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil war. Show all posts
Saturday, June 20, 2020

On race, history, honor, and statues

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This might upset some people. I can understand. Bear with me here though... In 1828 the United States Congress passed what came to be...
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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Son of ex-slave and Union soldier passes away (you read that right)

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It's stuff like this that never ceases to fascinate me.  These things impress upon us that so much of our history... isn't that long...
Monday, July 01, 2013

The Battle of Gettysburg began 150 years ago today

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On July 1st, 1863, what is considered the greatest and most decisive battle ever fought in the Western Hemisphere began on the outskirts of ...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Rockingham County commissioners UNANIMOUSLY approve restoring the Confederate monument!

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The message went out loud and clear last night from citizens and their elected representatives alike: "Mayor Festerman, tear down this ...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

6 Inches of Freedom: City of Reidsville discriminating against disabled! Pro-Monument protestors given "ridiculous" amount of space! ADA violation could incur $$$ penalties!

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The Police Department of the City of Reidsville has as of late last week implemented and begun enforcing a policy of limiting those protesti...
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Thursday, February 02, 2012

"Although you shot at me twice before I left, I did not want to hear of you being hurt."

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Jourdon Anderson was a freed slave who for thirty years had been the property of Colonel P.H. Anderson, a Tennessee plantation owner. Four ...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

A prayer for all people, in all times

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Confederate Soldier's Prayer I asked God for strength, that I might achieve, I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

On wars and monuments and such...

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I hadn't wanted to revisit the issue of the Confederate Soldiers Monument in my hometown of Reidsville this soon. But earlier this mor...
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

A monument to brave duty in a broken world

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My original plan for this day was to head out around lunch to grab a spot at the back of the chamber and do live blogging of this afternoon...
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Monday, May 23, 2011

Breaking News: Reidsville's Confederate monument smashed to smithereens!

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The Confederate Soldiers Monument that has served as the best-known landmark of downtown Reidsville, North Carolina for more than a hundred ...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The American Civil War began 150 years ago today

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I have heard many dissenting opinions during my lifetime as to who fired the first shot: the Union army that was holding Fort Sumter, or the...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

I'm beginning to seriously wonder...

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...if the next American civil war might begin over, of all things, health care. No, really. I've openly mused on this blog before about ...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Some very neat photos of American history

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HBO's John Adams miniseries has left me still feeling both floored and haunted. If only everything else on television could be so powe...
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Friday, April 11, 2008

Review of MEETING DAVID WILSON

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Today I was accused of being a racist. You need to know that, because that's been on my mind all evening and that's what I went in w...
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Sunday, February 03, 2008

Greensboro in the final days of the Civil War

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There's a very fascinating article in today's News & Record about what Greensboro went through in April 1865, as the American Ci...
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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Coud YOU have won the Battle of Gettysburg?

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Military.com poses the question: Could YOU Have Won the Battle of Gettysburg? In this simulation game, you take on the role of General Rober...