Confederate flag issue in Elizabethton deepens; flag stolen, replaced (Elizabethton, TN) Video

TriCities.com ^ | November 21, 2011 | Nate Morabito

[Colonel Kangaroo]

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. -- The battle over a confederate flag at an Elizabethton cemetery wages on...and this time, the Sons of Confederate Veterans are on the defensive.

The group filed a police report Sunday after they said someone stole their flag.

A member of the group says they've since put up a new, more recognizable confederate flag at Green Hill Cemetery in the other flag's absence.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans held a ceremony to dedicate the previous flag last month in recognition of lieutenant Robert J. Tipton and three other confederate veterans buried there.

The Watauga Historical Association fought that effort, saying Green Hill is not a military cemetery...and should not be home to a large, confederate flag.

Elizabethton Police say they currently have no leads in this case.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Sorry I'm late in responding. Hope y'all had a nice Thanksgiving. My people have been in Tennessee since the days of John Sevier. I'm as Southern as anybody. but Southern is not the same as Confederate.

And as Wardaddy said, many people in E. Tennessee identify with the Confederates. I'm doing my part to enlighten my relatives to the history. I'm not sure they're any more enthusiastic about the message as y'all are. My dear mom once gave me a hot lecture about "yankees" when I dared to point out the Civil War unionists in her own family tree.

Here's a link to a Google book of a contemporary (1866) book on life in East Tenn. during the war:

Bradley County Tennessee

[cowboyway]

I'm not sure they're any more enthusiastic about the message as y'all are.

Perhaps they know a snake oil salesman when they see one.

My dear mom once gave me a hot lecture about "yankees" when I dared to point out the Civil War unionists in her own family tree.

Besides embarrassing the poor old dear you drug up a painful past. Not many people like their dirty laundry hung out.

Here's a link to a Google book of a contemporary (1866) book on life in East Tenn. during the war:

Here's a better one: Jack Hinson's One Man War

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I looked at the preview of the Hinson book and may even go ahead and buy it to get both sides of the story. But as the Hurlburt book I linked shows, there were mean savages on both sides.

And I'm sure you'll be happy to know that as my mom got older and I got wiser, I quit teasing her about her unionist relatives and focused more with her on the fact that she did have some true bonnie blue Confederate forbears who fought the good fight that she could be proud of.

[cowboyway]

The Hinson book is well sourced and well written and somewhat dovetails into a book I'm currently reading: Nathan Bedford Forrest, In Search of the Enigma. However, even though the Hinson book mentions Forrest on numerous occasions, there is no mention of Hinson in the Forrest book. Also, the Forrest book has detailed, color glossy period maps of all his major campaigns. If it weren't fer that damned Bragg.......