Confederate soldier stands his ground (guards damaged monument dedicated to American soldiers)

Go Dan River ^ | 8/14/11 | Danielle Battaglia

[Libloather]

Confederate soldier stands his ground
By: Danielle Battaglia
Published: August 14, 2011

Despite the Reidsville Confederate Monument officially departing his post on Scales Street, another soldier is taking his place and standing up for what he believes is right.

On Friday morning, Jamie Funkhouser, the confederate soldier who came to Reidsville in June to raise awareness for the city council meeting discussing the future of the monument, returned to bring awareness to the fact that the soldier will soon be moved.

The Reidsville Monument stood at the intersection of Scales Street and West Morehead Street for 101 years until Mark Anthony Vincent, of Greensboro, fell asleep behind the wheel of his car, knocking the statue off its pedestal and onto the hood of his car, shattering the statue.

According to a press release Tuesday afternoon, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Reidsville City Council agreed that replacing the monument on its pedestal would be a divisive factor in the community and it should be moved elsewhere.

**SNIP**

Funkhouser said this statue has the same right to be there as any other war soldier. He also said that this soldier is not a race issue because all races fought under the confederate flag and people of all races have come and supported him Friday morning.

“If they remove this monument, it won’t keep me from coming back,” Funkhouser said. “I will come back here for years and be the Confederate soldier watching over Reidsville.”

The UDC is waiting word from the Vincent’s insurance company before deciding what to do with the monument.

[wideawake]

Yours in an analogy long on overwrought emotionality and short on relevance.

[Salamander]

I reckon the Daughters of the Confederacy could come up with the scratch, much as they did for Heyward Shepherd.

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=10482

Last year I went there, on a promise, to lay flowers at the marker.

During the interim between its erection and now, it was first repeatedly vandalized and finally covered up with plywood and after spending an hour looking for it, it appears to just be “gone”.

Too many people complained that it showed Brown in an “unflattering light”.

Gunning down a free black man in cold blood *is* “unflattering” but apparently that’s beside the point.

Perhaps before the summer’s over, I’ll go looking for it again.

I made a promise, after all and if I have to lay flowers on a damned empty sidewalk, I will.

[wideawake]

It has all been, if you’ll pardon the bad pun, divided totally into black and white with no shades of gray.

[Salamander]

Dead on.

What part of “voluntary union” don’t people understand?

[wideawake]

It has all been, if you’ll pardon the bad pun, divided totally into black and white with no shades of gray.

That is correct. Mostly through studied anachronism.

[Salamander]

That was possibly the most apt, succinct and perfect analogy ever written.

[wideawake]

Contracts are entered into voluntarily, but there are still penalties for voiding the contract.

[Salamander]

“Mostly through studied anachronism.”

You misspelled “through pandering to political agendas”.

[central_va]

In other words we had to destroy the republic in order to save it.

[Salamander]

King George would agree with you.

[Salamander]

He said, with a sense of foreboding.

[dagogo redux]

Not really very wide awake to much of anything.

[Pan_Yan]

Years later the wife wants a divorce. The husband refuses to allow the divorce, but the wife declares herself divorced and moves out.

Let me help you with your analogy. The marriage probably would have been better if she didn't smoke crack and abuse the children.

I'm all for state's rights. But of all the issues that war could have been fought over the South chose to plant their flag on the most reprehensible.

[Dominick]

http://www.wxii12.com/news/27991833/detail.html

[wardaddy]

high five all round...to be fair..on south basher scale... wideawakes is low on the obnoxious scale compared to the most egregious

[Twinkie]

Yours is the best analogy I’ve ever read on the subject of “The War of Northern Aggression”.

The victor always gets to rewrite history to suit themselves, and that’s just what they’ve done. - I will say, though, that we have BIG TROUBLE now; partly as a result of the white man’s guilt trip over slavery and wanting to show that he wasn’t “racist” by helping elect a (sorta) black man. None of us has the energy to fight TWNA today; we got enough trouble.

[rustbucket]

We visited Antietam/Sharpsburg last year. Beautiful area.

The Antietam National Battlefield won’t even allow any monuments to Robert E Lee and all the new roadside plaques detailing what battles/actions/events occurred at any given spot now all refer to the Confederates as “The Enemy”.

There is a monument to General Lee at Antietam that was dedicated in 2005. See: http://www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/mnt-lee.htm

The number of monuments to Northern units/commanders at Antietam far exceeded those to Southern units/commanders. I've found this to be true at other battlefields, such as Shiloh in Tennessee. The South was economically devastated after the war, and may not have been able to afford monuments at the battlefields. There are, however, many monuments to Southern troops in Southern towns.

Here is a link to what I found was the most moving monument at Shiloh, dedicated in 2005: http://www.tennesseehistory.com/class/firstmonument.htm

Here is my photo of that monument:

[TXnMA]

You need not fear sunburn on your scalp.

[wardaddy]

My question is why do yankees on a conservative forum care whether the state that lost more men in that war wish their deaths commemorated by statue

It’s not really their business.

It would be akin to me going north and protesting their monuments to folks who contributed to the expansion of America and the genocide of Indians

I mind my business.

They always have to have a self congratulatory horn to toot ....always have ...one reason they often embrace social liberalism....

Major cultural descendency difference between me and them

Now they are streaming down here quick as their Prius will carry them...hope they leave that crap above the MDL...some do....especially those from Detroit

[central_va]

It would be like me heading up to W T Sherman’s grave and taking a leak on it... oh wait, never mind.