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Monday, January 18, 2021

CONFEDERATE HERITAGE NEWS, January 18, 2021.

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FRANKLIN, Tennessee -- The SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS is opposing the removal of the Confederate flag from the Williamson County Seal. The flag is seen draped over an artillery piece in one-quarter of the shield on the seal. The other quarters contain a log cabin, a Bible and a Christian cross, and a horse, a cow, and a fence.

VAN BUREN, Arkansas -- A Fort Smith attorney has filed a law suit against the City of Van Buren and Mayor Joe Hurst following a Christmas parade banned the Confederate flag from a float. 

FORT MYERS, Florida -- A bust of Robert E. Lee returned briefly Sunday to the stone pillar it has been absent from in downtown Fort Myers for a year and a half as a small band of people gathered to celebrate the Confederate leader's birthday. 

Gen. Robert E. Lee
Honor and Integrity Personified

LEXINGTON, Virginia -- Sons of Confederate Veterans members celebrated Lee-Jackson Day, even though it is no longer a state holiday in Virginia. Both generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson are buried in Lexington. Both generals were also born in the month of January.


MANCHESTER, Tennessee -- Members of Kirby-Smith Chapter 327 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Elk River (Pelham) Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution participated in Wreaths Across America by laying wreaths on the graves of veterans at the Beech Grove Confederate Cemetery.


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