CONFEDERATE HERITAGE NEWS for March 8, 2021.

 CONFEDERATE HERITAGE NEWS

The South's Defender

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LOUISA, Va. (WSET) — A 1,500 square foot Confederate flag visible from a major Virginia highway will soon be flying from a diminished flagpole.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Cemetery officials are working to determine the best way to remediate damaged Confederate monuments at a city-owned cemetery.

GRETNA, La. (AP) — The board of the largest school system in the state decided not to form a committee to analyze whether some school or mascot names should be changed because they're honoring figures tied to slavery, the Confederacy, or segregation.

ASHVILLE, N.C. -- New data shows North Carolina ranked second in the number of Confederate monuments removed in 2020.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Not much is written in Virginia’s history books about William Mahone, a general who fought with the Confederate states during the Civil War.

[County manager explains resolution moving the Confederate Monument] STASTESVILLE, N.C. -- On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, the Iredell County Commissioners voted 4-1 to approve a resolution of the Iredell County Board of Commissioners.

SEVEN CRITICAL BATTLES IN THE WTBS   

  When Southern rebels bombarded Fort Sumter in South Carolina in April 1861, it was the start of a war between the Union and the secessionist Confederate States of America that would stretch on for four bloody years.

RICHMOND, VA. (AP) — People who want Confederate monuments to be returned to Richmond are trying to take their case to the Virginia Supreme Court.