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Index page for Confederate History Month News Coverage
Index page for Confederate History Month News Coverage
| Arizona - Confederate Memorial dedicated Emilie Siarkiewicz, left, and Dwaine Bright look at the Confederate Memorial dedicated Saturday morning outside the special area of the Southern Arizona Veterans’ Cemetery in Sierra Vista.
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Va. gov. concedes omission in history decree
"The South was not the worst region in the country but it seems like we get the bad rap all the time," Johnson said. "I just get tired of hearing all about slavery just being in the South. It was in the North, too.
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| Confederate history doesn't always travel well Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi also have Confederate History Month proclamations this year, and at least seven states celebrate Confederate Memorial Day, says Calvin Johnson of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
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| Springfield, Massachusetts - 11th Annual Confederate Memorial Day - April 24 - radio tribute - WTCC-FM 11th annual Confederate Memorial Day musical salute (Confederate Memorial Day falls on different dates from April to June in states across the South. In Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi it comes in April)
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| Origins of Memrorial Day Confederate Memorial Day was born the year after the conflict when grieving mothers and widows of Columbus, Mississippi gathered at Friendship Cemetery to put flowers on Confederate graves. A young widow, Elizabeth Sykes, headed to the small Union section, declaring “Let us remember them all alike, the men in blue and the men in gray.” Click here for more information |
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| Remembering The Old South April 2010, Confederate History and Heritage Month, is the month that marked the beginning of the War Between the States (1861) and its end (1865.) Click here for more information |
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| Day 2 - Confederate History Month Minutes In Mississippi on February 1, 1890, an appropriation for a monument to the Confederate dead was being considered. A delegate had just spoken against the bill, when John F. Harris, a Black Republican delegate from Washington, county, rose to speak: Click here for more information |
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| Confederate History Month in Dixie April is a time to remember the men and women of the Confederacy and those who kept their memory eternal; like Ms. Mildred Lewis Rutherford who almost a century ago served as Historian-General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She was a respected teacher, writer, speaker and defender of the true history of the War Between the States. Ms. Rutherford also wrote a monthly newsletter from 1923 to 1926 entitled “Miss Rutherford’s scrapbook” and in 1920 wrote the book “Truths of History.” Click here for more information |
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| SCV Camp # 10 seeking sponsors Click here for more information |
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| News Release for Confederate Memorial Day—Sunday April 26th The Constitution of the Confederates States of America will be exhibited from 8:00 am until 5:00 pm on Monday, April, 27, 2009, in the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library (on the 3rd floor of the Main Library) at the University of Georgia in Athens. Click here for more information |
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