Posted on 04/07/2015 11:30:34 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
The Confederate memorial at Orange's Martin Luther King Drive and Interstate 10, is scheduled to have 32 Confederate flags erected upon the structure's completion. The flags will be installed in increments of eight.
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Oh Lord....here we go.
DIED
FOR STATES RIGHTS
GUARANTEED UNDER THE CONSTITUTION
THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH, ANIMATED BY THE SPIRIT OF 1776, TO PRESERVE THEIR RIGHTS, WITHDREW FROM THE FEDERAL COMPACT IN 1861. THE NORTH RESORTED TO COERCION.
THE SOUTH, AGAINST OVERWHELMING NUMBERS AND RESOURCES,
FOUGHT UNTIL EXHAUSTED.
DURING THE WAR THERE WERE TWENTY TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEVEN ENGAGEMENTS.
IN EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TWO OF THESE, AT LEAST ONE REGIMENT TOOK PART.
NUMBER OF MEN ENLISTED:
CONFEDERATE ARMIES 600,000; FEDERAL ARMIES 2,859,132
LOSSES FROM ALL CAUSES:
CONFEDERATE, 437,000; FEDERAL, 485,216
Long time in coming
Which residents were they?
Good news.
Confederate memorial at Martin Luther King Drive and Interstate 10.
Sounds like some REAL bad planning.
This is the inscription from the Civil War memorial at the Texas State Capitol I think the figures are off too.
In the state of FL there is now big flags at the 3 main interstates coming in to FL and the biggest confederate flag in the world at Tampa off I-75.
When the flag was going to go up the media had a hissy fit and tried to find people upset over it. Yes most people thought it was good and not a racist flag. f course the NAACP came in but later they dropped it due to public outrage
Said state's right being later negated by the 13th Amendment.
“DIED
FOR STATES RIGHTS”
Problem is, that’s not true.
They did not believe in other State’s rights and believed in and used federal power to enforce their view over the rights of other states.
Aw, now you’ve gone and done it.
The “wawuh of Northrun agreshun” crowd is gonna be nipping at your heels.
CC
The first amendment and private property rights can be a real beach. LOL!
Looks first class. I hope it has police protection since race hustlers and leftists have free speech that disagrees with their views.
Dixie Ping
The picture doesn’t do it much justice but from what I can see it looks like it has great visibility but iffy security.
I have a vague memory of seeing one of those Jefferson Davis Highway markers in Orange at the Texas Welcome Center on I-10 at the border with Louisiana. There are a number of those markers throughout the state. See Jefferson Davis Highway Markers.
The first one of those markers I ever saw was the one in the center of the town of Fort Davis, Texas. Just outside of the town is the actual fort, a National Historic Site named Fort Davis for Jefferson Davis who was US Secretary of War when the fort was established in 1854.
I visited the bookstore in the fort once. They had a large number of books about Buffalo Soldiers, but not one book about Jefferson Davis despite the fact that the fort was named for him and it was located in the Davis Mountains in Jeff Davis County. That was National Park Service political correctness at work, I suppose. I gave the clerk a hard time about it.
Interesting markers I don’t blame you I would have said something as well.
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