Some new news about an old war.
1. DIXIE STONEWALLED AGAIN-- For the past 20 years, members of the Maryland's Sons of Confederate Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy adjourned across the street from where they sang Dixie and laid wreaths at the monument to Lee and Jackson and had coffee and refreshments at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, but not any more.
The university will not rent space to them because the even t is planned for a few days before Barack Obama's inauguration and the NAACP complained about it.
Shame on that institution.
2. THE 54TH MASS. IS BACK-- The unit made famous in the movie "Glory." the 54th Massachusetts is back. This past Friday, the unit was reactivated in Boston as the state's ceremonial unit of the Massachusetts National Guard. They will conduct military honors at state functions and veterans funeral services.
Good to have that storied-unit, which overcame all sorts of obstacles during the Civil War to prove that black soldiers indeed could fight for their freedom, back.
Now, You Know. --Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
