Lee, Benning, Beauregard and Gordon were 1917 and Bragg was 1918. The rest were significantly later.
Guess it was a WWI boom.
I know that now is the worst time to be considering this, because you never want to give into a mob, but we simply never do what we should when there isn’t some sort of pressure.
And since I’m not born in the south, I guess maybe I can’t understand what it means.
On the other hand, nobody was born in the confederate states of america. nobody had their homeland attacked, nobody here lost a war, or had their cities pillaged. Nobody had their livelyhood ruined, or lost their sons and daughters or brothers and sisters.
Why don’t people who have “pride in the south” create a new flag. Use similar patterns if you happen to think that the confederate flag as any specially wonderful layout. Make your “southern pride” truly about southern pride, not some hand-me-down carry-over from a war people you never knew lost long ago.
When the most racist President in our history, Woodrow Wilson, was in charge. And Democrats still love him.