Baltimore: ALL Confederate Statues Have Now Been Removed

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An event to raise the Confederate flag on the grounds of the S.C. State House will go forward this month after all.

The group Flags Across the South will raise the rebel banner beside the Confederate soldiers’ monument on Saturday, July 13, the group’s chairman says.

Flags Across the South has reserved the north side of the State House grounds throughout the day. Chairman Braxton Spivey of Charleston says the group plans to raise the flag on a temporary flagpole around 9 a.m. and leave the banner flying near the intersection of Gervais and Main streets until the permit expires at 5 p.m.

Spivey said he wanted to raise the flag on July 10, the four-year anniversary of when the Confederate flag was removed from the State House grounds in the aftermath of a racially-motivated shooting in a Charleston church that killed nine people.

But a year ago, the Columbia chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice preemptively reserved the State House grounds that day. The racial justice group will invite residents to hold a picnic on the State House lawn instead.

Sarah Keeling, the founder of Columbia’s Showing Up for Racial Justice, said her group will be present to protest the flag event as it has past rallies for the Secessionist Party.

Keeling said she was glad her group’s event had blocked the flag rally from taking place on the anniversary itself, “but I’d feel better if they stopped showing up at all.”

Dallas' Confederate War Memorial must stay in the historic cemetery in front of the downtown convention center. For now, anyway.

That's according to an order issued Monday by Justice Bill Whitehill of the Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals at Dallas. His order came only days after Arlington attorney Warren Norred filed an emergency stay in yet another legal effort to stop Dallas from removing the 122-year-old Frank Teitch sculpture from its second home in Pioneer Park Cemetery near City Hall.

This appeal stems from a case filed in April 2018, when a group called Return to Lee Park — founded by recent Dallas City Council candidate Warren Johnson — went to court to force the city to return Alexander Phimister Proctor's 1935 sculpture Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Soldier to the Oak Lawn park from which it was removed in September 2017.

In April, court records show, state District Judge Eric Moyé dismissed that case with prejudice.

As that case unfolded, the Dallas City Council voted in February to take down the Confederate War Memorial, which features a statue of a Confederate soldier surrounded by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his generals: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Albert Sidney Johnston.

Karen Pieroni of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Chris Carter filed another lawsuit in May to stop the city from removing the memorial. But in recent weeks, Moyé refused to grant a temporary restraining order or a temporary injunction. Court documents show the appeals court declined to take up Carter and Pieroni's case.
Now the focus turns back to the Johnson lawsuit — the last remaining roadblock to the memorial's removal. And how long the memorial will remain in place is unclear: The court stays "all efforts to remove, alter, or demolish the Confederate Monument," Whitehill writes, "until further order of the Court."

The city has until July 15 to file its response. Interim City Attorney Chris Caso said Tuesday the city had no comment. Norred, too, was not immediately available for comment Tuesday evening.
Norred filed his emergency stay Thursday, and his 11-page application maintains the city's "rush to remove the Lee statue and Confederate Monument ... violated the Texas Open Meetings Act and the Texas Antiquities Act," among other things.

The removal had appeared imminent. Assistant City Attorney Charles Estee told Moyé in May that the city was negotiating with a contractor to remove the Confederate War Memorial, which was originally installed in Old City Park on April 30, 1897, and moved to its present-day location in 1961 to make room for R.L. Thornton Freeway.
The council, the Landmark Commission and the City Plan Commission decided independently in recent weeks that the memorial is not really a part of the pioneers' cemetery since it doesn't honor Dallas founders and because it was moved there long after 1921, when the last person was buried in the cemetery.

The Wilmington Police Department is asking for the public’s help to identify a woman it says vandalized two Confederate statues downtown early Thursday morning.

The statue located at the intersection of Dock and Third streets was vandalized with orange paint along with the George Davis statue at the intersection of Market and Third streets.

Two years ago, the same statues were vandalized following a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

- A band has been removed from the Du Quoin State Fair lineup.

Confederate Railroad will no longer perform on August 27.

The Du Quoin Weekly reports the band was removed because of their name.

Back in June, Rich Miller with Capitol Fax, asked whether or not people thought the band playing at a state-owned facility was appropriate.

Fair Manager, Josh Gross, told the newspaper the Illinois Department of Agriculture made the decision saying, "While every artists has a right to expression, we believe this decision is in the best interest of serving all of the people in our state."

Eighty-eight years after it was originally dedicated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and placed at the intersection of Lamont and Tennessee (now University Parkway) streets, a Johnson City Civil War monument has found a new, more permanent home in the Oak Hill Cemetery.

The monument, which is about three feet tall and resembles a headstone, now sits in a historic cemetery where more than a dozen identified Civil War veterans are buried. But, with more than 500 unmarked graves, it’s estimated there are more than 60 Confederate soldiers buried there, with at least nine Union soldiers identified as well.

“We wanted to put (the monument) in a more secure place, and a place that people who do genealogy and history could find it,” said Katie Walker, former president of the Johnson City chapter of the UDC.

The monument reads: “Here was training Camp of Confederate Regiments from the South on their way by rail to Virginia to join General Lee.”

It will now be flanked by a flagpole flying the UDC flag on its right, while also being surrounded by several graves of Confederate soldiers, including that of former Johnson City mayor William Dickinson, who was a captain in the CSA army. Johnson City founder Henry Johnson’s son — as is Johnson himself — is buried near the monument. Johnson’s son, William Johnson, was killed in battle in 1863 in East Tennessee.

Johnson City, however, says it was just assisting the UDC in moving the statue to a site that Walker says she feels is safer from vandalism. The cemetery the monument was relocated to has fencing with iron gates surrounding its perimeter, but Walker says the Daughters of the Confederacy flag that sits to the right of the newly moved monument has still been stolen “at least three times.”

Vandalism “is always a concern, but that’s the chance you take to honor our Confederate veterans,” Walker said. “I think (people) should remember that this is a part of United States history, and even if we don’t agree with it now — we learn from the past to make the future better.”

One of the last remaining Confederate monuments in California was vandalized days after the Fourth of July.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans monument was erected in the Santa Ana Cemetery in 2004. On Sunday, it was discovered covered in red paint with the word “racists” written vertically down one side.

The 7-ton granite monument is dedicated to those who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. It includes the names of 33 people with ties to the Confederacy, including Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

In the past two years, as monuments and statues dedicated to Confederate soldiers have been taken down throughout the country amid an outcry over the glorification of a history tied to slavery and racism, the Orange County Cemetery District Board grappled with a decision regarding the monument’s future.

Orange County Cemetery District general manager Tim Deutsch said the board initially agreed that the monument could stay put with some modifications, which included limiting the names inscribed on the memorial to soldiers who died in Orange County after the war. More than 300 Civil War soldiers are buried in Santa Ana.

But more recently, the district couldn’t find details on the original board action regarding the monument’s approval. When the Sons of Confederate Veterans failed to respond to the board’s letters about modifications and permit violations, members approved its removal on July 2. Until it is removed, Deutsch said the monument remains concealed from public view under a tarp after efforts to remove the graffiti failed.

Gordon Bricken, an amateur historian and former mayor of Santa Ana who helped establish the monument, uncovered much of Santa Ana’s Civil War connections before his death in 2013. With the help of a group of Civil War buffs, he was able to locate the graves of more than 800 Civil War veterans in Orange County.

His daughter, Patricia Bricken, told the Orange County Register that the monument was never meant to glorify the negative history often attached to the Confederacy.

“That’s part of our freedom, is that we should be able to erect monuments to whoever we want, especially on private land,” she said. “We didn’t force it down anybody’s throat at all.”

“That’s part of our freedom, is that we should be able to erect monuments to whoever we want, especially on private land,” she said. “We didn’t force it down anybody’s throat at all.”

Ok so would it be ok to erect a statue of Osama Bin Laden in somebodies front lawn in New York?

The debate over symbols of the Confederate States of America has come to Delaware.

In 2007, the Delaware chapters of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy raised money to install a monument in Georgetown honoring the Delawareans who fought — and, in some cases, died — for the Confederacy over a four-year period that splintered the nation.

Since then, the monument has sat on the rear of the Georgetown Historical Society’s property on South Bedford Street, with a Confederate battle flag proudly flying overhead next to a Delaware flag.

In 2019, that monument — the only such Confederate display in the state, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center — cost the society a crucial piec e of its funding.

For years, the Georgetown Historical Society received state funding through the grant-in-aid bill, which annually allocates money to hundreds of nonprofits across the state. But, with racial tensions in the United States perhaps higher than they have been since the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, Sen. Trey Paradee moved last month to remove the proposed allocation to the group.

One of 12 members of the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee, he was assigned to review the section of the grant-in-aid measure containing arts, historical, cultural and tourism groups, which included the Georgetown Historical Society.

“I find it offensive that the flag of our great state is flown at the same height as the Confederate battle flag, which is frequently displayed together with the Nazi swastika by white supremacist groups, like the KKK, as a symbol of hate and racial intolerance,” the Dover Democrat said in a statement.

As a private property owner, the Georgetown Historical Society is certainly within its rights to continue to display the flag and monument, but, as long as I am in the State Senate, I will fight to stop state funding to the organization until they decide to remove them.”

The Georgetown Historical Society received $14,443 in the fiscal year that ended June 30 and was seeking $30,000 this year. That loss of funding is huge for the organization, according to Vice President Debbie Jones.

Both Ms. Jones and Jeff Plummer, the commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ Delaware chapter, fear the decision by Sen. Paradee will lead to a slippery slope that will see money taken away from other groups.

“Everyone needs to support all history, because if we start picking and choosing what we like and erasing, then all monuments and all museums will be a target,” Mr. Plummer said, questioning if the Smithsonian Institution will soon be censored.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans is not a hate group, he said, but is intended simply to research and celebrate the Delaware citizens who took part in America’s bloodiest conflict on behalf of the losing side.

While the website for the Delaware chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans calls for paying homage to the Confederate flag and “the Cause for which it stands,” Mr. Plummer said he sees claims that members of the group are racist as ridiculous.

The flag of the United States flew over slave ships for decades prior to the Civil War, he said, noting a black man who fought for the Confederacy is commemorated on the Georgetown monument.

While Delaware remained in the Union during the Civil War, it was a slave state, and Mr. Plummer estimated about 2,000 residents fought for the Confederacy.

A December poll of residents of the 11 states that made up the Confederacy reported 42 percent supported keeping monuments honoring Confederate soldiers, while just 5 percent backed removing them. Thirty percent said they are in favor of keeping statues recognizing leaders who supported racial segregation, with 13 percent saying they should be taken down.