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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...
WASHINGTON – Dr. Adalbert Volck lead a most interesting life. A trained dentist, Volck plied his profession in Baltimore during the mid-19th century. But the good dentist also had some intriguing sidelines. As a Southern loyalist during the Civil War, he operated a safe house for rebel soldiers and agents, smuggled medical supplies to...
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...
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....
Members of the Jones County Rosen Hills Color Guard posted the colors Monday on the front lawn of the Lauderdale County court house during Confederate Memorial Day ceremonies. Members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy remembered those who fell in the Civil War. W. D. Cameron Camp...
here is nothing particularly new about the recent story out of Tennessee, about a girl who was turned away from her prom because her dress looked like a Confederate flag. These sorts of obnoxious acts arise from time to time, often motivated less by overt racism than by misguided loyalties or an urge to...
About 30 people came out to Woodward Cemetary to honor a fallen soldier from 150 years ago. It’s a part of a Confederate Memorial day. Folks dressed up in confederate uniforms and listened to a reading about James T. Woodward, who is buried at the cemetary. The group’s commander, Steve Scroggins, says it’s important...
