Some New News About an Old War.
1. SCV PROTESTS BLACK CEMETERY DESECRATION-- The Sons of Confederate Veterans have joined the protest against the Virginia Commonwealth University's decision plan to repave a parking lot in Richmond that covers a burial ground for slaves and free blacks. VCU recently purchased the 400 space lot. The SCV would also like an archaeological study done. This is a bit confusing. Is the parking lot already existing, or is the added area where the burial ground is located?
2. NO FLAGS ON YOUR CAPS-- Graduates at Wolfe County Middle School in Williamson, Kentucky, were told that they could not wear Confederate flags on their mortarboards because the principal finds the flag to be offensive.
Students were originally told they could decorate their caps anyway they wanted.
3. NEW CIVIL WAR MUSEUM-- June 14th was the grand opening of the Kenosha, Wisconsin Civil War Museum, eventhough most of the displays are not yet completed. Both Confederate and Union re-enactors were there for the festivities and cannons were fired.
The museum starts in the 1850s at one end and continues to the 1870s at the other.
4. CANNONBALL FOUND-- A Civil War cannonball was found on the beach of a South Carolina community after being dredged up in a beach nourishment project at the Wild Dunes on the Isle of Pines.
Explosive experts have determined that it is not dangerous and it was probably fired from a 10-inch Columbiad. The dredge was diggingup sand about two miles offshore.
This is close to Charleston, SC, the site of a 600 day siege.
Who Says It's an Old War?
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
