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Headstones were unveiled Saturday for three Confederate veterans whose graves had gone unmarked for more than century. The headstones for Sgt. H.B. Cox of the North Carolina infantry, as well as privates J.M. Evans and Rufus Yeargin, both of the South Carolina Volunteer infantry, were dedicated at a Confederate memorial service at the old...
150 years ago, part of history was written right in our own backyard. “When you think of the Civil War, you think of Virginia and South Carolina, you don’t think of Elmira, NY. But it had a big impact on this community and that state,” said Bob Roe of the Chemung Valley Living History...
- A welcome sign is supposed to give visitors a good first impression, but a proposed sign in Myrtle Beach is already stirring controversy because of the Confederate Flag one group wants to put on it. The group is called the Myrtle Beach Sons of Confederate Veterans. It asked city council for permission to...
A Confederate heritage group in Gastonia says one of its promotional signs was recently stolen from along a highway near the South Carolina border. Members of the organization aren’t sure whether to blame a metal thief, or possibly a vandal who doesn’t favor their mission and philosophy. But if the sign hasn’t been destroyed, they...
Confederate money, once so worthless it was used to light fires and cover the cracks in cabin walls, is valuable again. At the River Cities Coin Club’s sixth annual spring show Saturday at Daviess County High School, $1 CSA bills had an asking price of $80, and paper 50-cent bills were listed at $70.
Ron Wilson, one time columnist for the Council of Conservative Citizens and former Commander-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans is accused of defrauding investors according to two news articles at the Independent Mail of Anderson, SC in an article titled, “Attorney general: Ron Wilson defrauded silver customers.” Former Anderson County Council member Ron Wilson told...
When South Carolina Lt. Gov. Ken Ard resigned on Friday, the same day a grand jury indicted him for seven ethics violations, longtime state Sen. Glen McConnell agreed to fill the vacant post. The state’s Republicans hoped he would bring a wealth of experience to the job, but didn’t count on the 30-year veteran bringing his...
There’s a bit of an historical mystery in the Orangeburg County town of Springfield. The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg reports (http://bit.ly/w6Oxb0) that Wayne and Lydia Lackey were recently preparing land for planting corn when Lydia Lackey found an unusual, weathered marker. Her husband sandblasted it to find it was United Confederate Veterans Iron...
South Carolina Bureaucrats are trying to use traffic congestion as an excuse to bulldoze a Confederate memorial and a Maurice Bessinger BBQ in the city of Orangeburg in Orangeburg County. Both Confederate monuments, as well as the Maurice Bessinger BBQ chain, have been under constant attack by the NAACP in South Carolina for the past twenty...
A 14-year-old girl who was suspended from school after wearing a sweater with the Confederate flag on it says she has received death threats. Torri Albrecht, of East Windsor, New Jersey, claims she was suspended for wearing the sweatshirt after she refused to take it off or turn it inside out. Her mother Jane...
