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American History

Cirsium

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5. Also Farragut and Thomas

Reply to Wonder Why (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 24, 2024, 03:06 PM

Oct 24

Farragut and Thomas were both war heroes from the South. Why aren't they honored "down yonder?" In many parts of the Confederacy - western North Carolina, northern Alabama, eastern Tennessee more men were loyal than were traitorous. Where are their memorials "in the land of cotton where old times are not forgotten?"

Where are the monuments down there to the 100,000 African American soldiers that fought in the Civil War? Don't they count as part of "our southern heritage" that needs to be diligently preserved?

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