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The North Carolina United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and the Historic Preservation Action Committee (HPAC) will go head-to-head in court Monday morning over the Reidsville Confederate Monument. HPAC filed lawsuits against the City of Reidsville, the UDC, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources (NCDCR)...
As the caravan of carnage neared the University of Virginia, townspeople rushed to the wagons to administer what relief they could to the wounded Confederate soldiers. Groans and incoherent mumblings of delirium rose and ebbed as the wagons bumped and swayed along the rutted road. Aid workers gagged and grimaced, assaulted by the stench...
Claiming they never wanted all the attention, some groups maintain they’ve been thrust on the stage that is the Confederate flag ban debate in Lexington in order to protect their rights, while others seem all too ready to take advantage of the spotlight. The Lexington Police Department confirmed it obtained several calling cards and...
MOULTRIE — The Moultrie McNeill UDC Chapter 661’s Confederate Memorial Service was held on Sunday, April 29. The guest speaker was Jim Parrish of Tallahassee, Fla. Due to his extensive ten-year research covering the 50th Georgia Infantry, of which Colquitt County had company H, he was so informed about the local Confederates that he...
Live Oak — A group of people displaying Confederate flags on private property across the street from Suwannee High School, within view of students, caused a disturbance on campus this morning, SHS principal Ted Roush said. It is not yet clear if the group displaying the flags in the parking lot of Johnson’s Radio...
GRAHAM — The Colonel Charles F. Fisher Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans will host an observance of Confederate Memorial Day on Court Square on Saturday. The event will begin at 9 a.m. by parading from the County Courthouse to lay a wreath at the memorial wall at the Criminal Courts Building. This...
A century and a half after these men fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War, another group of men remembered them Saturday when the Sons of Confederate Veterans held a memorial on the UNC campus. The short service, with three uniformed soldiers and a lone trumpeter, drew 10 people to the Confederate War...
Confederate History Month, which was celebrated in April, is significant as it is the month the War Between the States began in 1861 and the year it ended in 1865. Gen. Robert E. Lee said, “Duty is the sublimest word in the English language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more....
Corsicana — The John H. Reagan Camp #2156 of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, located in Palestine will be hosting three separate Confederate Grave Marker Dedication Ceremonies on Saturday, May 5, 2012 beginning at 10 a.m. at the Bonner Cemetery, then 12:30 p.m. at the Hopson Burleson Memorial Cemetery, and another at 4...
Forsyth County’s Confederate heritage was honored by members of the Col. Hiram Parks Bell Chapter 2641 United Daughters of the Confederacy. On Saturday, members of the organization held a Confederate Memorial Day service in conjunction with the local Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter at Zion Hill Baptist Church in north Forsyth. Several members of...
