Naming Commission Panel Strikes Again

| September 14, 2022


Arlington National Cemetery

No words, just the same anger and pity these idiots deserve. Poetrooper sends.

Panel recommends removal of Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery

By Cami Mondeaux, Breaking News Reporter

The Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery should be dismantled and removed from the cemetery, according to an independent commission’s final report to Congress with suggestions for renaming military bases and assets that commemorate the Confederacy.

The statute, which was unveiled in 1914 and features a bronze woman representing the South, is “problematic from top to bottom” and should be removed entirely, according to the report. The statue’s base also features shields with the coats of arms of the 13 Confederate states, as well as depictions of enslaved men and women.

The recommendations are part of a larger report by the commission that seeks to propose new names for Army bases and assets that commemorate the Confederacy. The Naming Commission is set to submit a three-part report to Congress by Oct. 1 that includes recommendations for all memorials, awards, scholarships, and “inactive, decommissioned, or obsolete assets,” according to the report.

Washington Examiner

While they’re rewriting history, one wonders how they’ll square New Arlington with the estate’s original owner. Thanks, Poe.

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Mike B

Jiminy Crickets just erase all the Bad, Hurtful, and Offensive things and replace them with Unicorn Farts and Rainbows…..

This shit is getting ridiculous…..Leave our HISTORY alone, once and for all! If you don’t like it don’t look at it, don’t read it, don’t visit it!

The Stranger

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Reverend Doktor Righteous

It is a bot, using a VPN so that its IP address is continually evolving.

Hack Stone

But they swear that this time removal of this particular Confederate Memorial will be the one that ends racism throughout the world. All of the previous statues removed were just practice.

Stacy0311

I thought taking the woman off the syrup bottle and the dude of the box of rice was supposed to end racism?

Forrest Bondurant

…or the indian lady off of Land O’ Lakes butter packages.

Anonymous

Hey, where will dumb kids think Harriet Tubman looked like Aunt Jemima from now?!
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orca

She did’nt?

TopGoz

Still waiting for the democrats to call for the removal of “Robert C. Byrd” from about half of the buildings in West Virginia.

FuzeVT

Ha.
He gets a pass because of the D.

Anonymous

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jeff LPH 3 63-66

What about Coka Cola. Remember who invented Coke. Seems nobody doesn’t know that it was a Southern Civil War Army Vet that invented the formula.

ninja

Yep.

That’s why we were LOL when Coke went Woke…

Remember when Bill Cosby was the spokesman for “The New Coke”?

What a bunch of hypocrites…

🎶 “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony…🎶

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KoB

Wounded in the Defence of His Home in Columbus, Georgia, leading his troops from the front as a Warrior should. His family lost the rest of the business to the damyanky carpetbagger Asa Chandler. “…lest we forget…”  🇸🇴 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/john-pemberton-who-invented-coca-cola

ninja

Yep.

The Battle of Columbus.

Alabama and Georgia.

hbtd/rtr

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KoB

AKA Battle of Girard. NVGs would of made a difference…for either side. But then again, give me 12K well equiped troopers against some 3K local militia and mechanics and I’ll overrun your defences…every.damn.time.

A Compatriot and Safety NCO of mine built the National Civil War Naval Museum into what is was before the political correctness reared its ugly head and the City politicians ran him off.

rtr/hbtd/gabn

Forrest Bondurant

Coca Cola is now “Woke-A-Cola”.

Walmart is now “Woke Mart”

CDR D

Also, they need to get Tabasco Sauce out of the chow halls. Mr. Edmund McIlhenny was a Confederate Army employee as a civilian.

Edmund McIlhenny – Wikipedia

Jay

Same with “Storm Thurmond” in SC…

The Stranger

They will push for removing Strom’s name from stuff since he became a Republican. Hardcore racists like Byrd and Woodrow Wilson are in the clear since they went to their graves as true, blue Democrats.

ninja

“Navy Secretary To Rename USS Chancellorsville, USNS Maury”

“Changes coming to posts, monuments, buildings and streets named after Confederates”

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/09/13/navy-secretary-to-rename-uss-chancellorsville-usns-maury/

“An independent commission tasked with compiling a list of Defense Department items bearing the names of Confederate troops or sympathizers is due to report its final recommendations to Congress by the end of the month, including the rebranding of two currently active Navy ships.”

“The cruiser Chancellorsville, memorializing a Confederate Civil War victory, and the oceanographic survey ship Maury, named for a Confederate navy officer, should be renamed per Navy tradition, according to the commission, with new names coming at the discretion of Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro.”

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ninja

“The commission is also recommending that the Air Force rename Fort Fisher Recreation Area, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, as it was originally named for a Confederate installation.”

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ninja

“At he USNA, the Commission suggested that Buchanan House, Buchanan Road, and Maury Hall, be renamed. The former two sites memorialize the Confederate admiral Franklin Buchanan, whose “efforts killed hundreds of US Navy sailors”, according to the report. Maury Hall honors Matthew Fontaine Maury, a prominent
oceanographer and climatologist who “viewed African Americans as unworthy of life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness,” states the report. “Maury envisioned a series of vast American territories in Central and South America, where enslaved humans would produce commodity crops like cotton, rubber and sugar.”

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MustangCryppie

Wait a minute. Last time I checked there were Union troops at Chancellorsville too. Like fighting to save the Union and get rid of slavery. WTF? Stupid. Just incredibly stupid. And I don’t care if it was a rebel victory. It was one of the major battles…and they lost one of their best generals in Jackson.

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Anonymous

Probably to be renamed the USS Little Bighorn and USNS Don K. Punch respectively.

RCAF-CHAIRBORNE

USS George Floyd 🤢

Stacy0311

Are they going to have to temporarily rename the Iwo Jima and Okinawa and several others during Asian-Pacific Islander month?

5JC

So when is the Navy going to get around to the 20th Century names?

USS Carl Vinson
USS John Stennis
USS Harry Byrd

They all signed The Southern Manifesto and were raging racists. Practically every Senator and Congressman in the South signed it an they were joined by dozens of racist Republicans.

(ok, I made that last part up, only 1 Republican joined them, the esteemed Joel Broyhill from Virginia. That dude really hated being around black people too.)

ninja

“Commission finds 1,100 Confederate-linked DOD assets that could cost $62.5M to remove”

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-09-13/confederates-military-naming-commission-7323205.html

“More than 1,100 Defense Department assets have been identified as honoring the Confederacy and it could cost roughly $62.5 million to rename all of them, according to the commission tasked with examining the issue.”

“Renaming nine Army bases linked to the Confederacy could cost more than $21 million, according to a commission appointed to study the issue.”

“The first two sections outlined the renaming of the nine Army bases that bear Confederate-linked names, which is expected to cost about $21 million, and the second focused on the U.S. Military Academy and the Naval Academy, which will cost about $451,000.”

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Forrest Bondurant

What about the service men and women who are of Confederate lineage…and buried at Arlington? Are their bodies going to be exhumed and moved to other cemeteries because their presence there is considered “offensive”?

When will all vestiges of President Woodrow Wilson be removed, including renaming the bridge in DC – and all other landmarks/roads across the country that carries his namesake?

Will VMI be shuttered, since both cadets and alumni played a role in the Civil War, and because the college was founded in the South?

We can do this all day.

Av8or33

There is no end, all vestiges of our history are “problematic”. The United States of America is no longer the same country we grew up in and served. Now you know what “fundamentally change” means. The people in power don’t like what America stood for and they don’t like us either. Listen to what they say, the contempt isn’t even hidden anymore.

Green Thumb

Yep.

Are they going to dig them up?

ninja

“Our goal was to inspire everyone in the Department of Defense, local communities and the nation with names that have meaning,” retired Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule, vice chairman of the commission, said during a call with reporters. “All of us previously have taken the oath of office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That oath was written in 1862 as an anti-Confederate oath. It seems appropriate that we all took that oath again for this mission.”

“He grew up with a dog named Dixie; now, he’s renaming Army bases that honor Confederates”

https://www.stripes.com/history/2022-03-06/he-grew-up-with-a-dog-named-dixie-now-he-is-helping-rename-army-bases-5248335.html

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AW1 Rod

He even LOOKS like a dick with ears.

Go fuck yourself, Ty.

ninja

“Retired brigadier general and West Point history professor Ty Seidule”

“OnJan. 6, 2021, an insurrectionist with a huge Confederate flag walked past a portrait of Charles Sumner in halls of the U.S. Capitol building. A journalist captured the moment in a photo that made the rounds on the news.”

“The irony of that instance was not lost on retired brigadier general and West Point history professor Ty Seidule, who now lives in Clinton and is a visiting professor at Hamilton.”

“Seidule grew up in Virginia and Georgia with a dog named Dixie and a drawing of Confederate battle flags over the mantle of his childhood home. His first chapter book was “Meet Robert E. Lee.” He wanted to be a Southern gentlemen.”

Now he has a book, “Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause,” and is on the Naming Commission formed by Congress to review and suggest new titles for Department of Defense property named after Confederates”

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MCPO USN

Pussy

FuzeVT

If they just never mentioned that memorial, no one would know it’s there. It’s tucked away in a part of the cemetery that no one ever sees near Ft. Meyer. In my time visiting the NCR or being stationed Quantico I got the opportunity to wander around Arlington to see everything not in between the entrance, JFK memorial and the Tombs of the Unknowns. There’s a lot of very cool stuff in there and I never even saw this. I got close (the USS Maine memorial) but still never saw it.

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmUJ3Npi

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2banana

I am looking foward to a commission recommending that all MLK statues and plaques be removed for him being a rapist.

KoB

“…adventurous abroad and despotic at home…” R.E. Lee

Psalms 144:1 His favorite verse and one we should heed.

Mary Randolph Custis Lee (Geo & Martha Washington’s Great Grand Daughter) weeps.

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/lee-mary-randolph-custis-1807-1873/

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ninja

“Congressional Commission Recommends the Removal or Renaming of Confederate Memorials at West Point”

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/congressional-commission-recommends-the-removal-or-renaming-of-confederate-memorials-at-west-point-1234639347/

“A monumental portrait of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee is among the memorials and markers that may be removed from display at the US Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York, per the recommendation of a Congressional commission charged with assessing the display of Confederacy-affiliated assets at US military bases.”

“Robert E. Lee, who graduated from West Point and later served as its superintendent, is widely memorialized at the academy. The Commission called for references to and a quote by him be removed from USMA’s plaza, and for the renaming of West Point locations including Lee Barracks, Lee Road, and the Lee Gate.”

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ninja

“They also advised renaming Beauregard Place, which honors General P.G.T. Beauregard, who is described in the report as “an ardent supporter of enslavement, secession and rebellion.”

“A work at the Academy singled out by the report is a 1965 towering bronze memorial to graduates who served in the Second World War or the Korean War. Created by sculptor in Laura Gardin Fraser for the exterior of the Bartlett Hall Science Center, the triptych features some 150 historical figures including panels that honor several Confederate officers including Lee, Stuart, and Stonewall Jackson, which the commission recommend be modified or removed. The triptych also features a small, hooded member of the Ku Klux Klan.”

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ninja

“Naval Academy board chair calls to remove Confederate names from buildings”

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/06/11/naval-academy-board-chair-calls-to-remove-confederate-names-from-buildings/

“The names of two members of the Confederacy should be removed from buildings at the U.S. Naval Academy, the chairman of the academy’s Board of Visitors said Thursday.”

“Rep. C.A Dutch Ruppersberger, a Maryland Democrat, said the Pentagon should consider removing Confederate names from all military bases as people across the country protest against racial inequality and police brutality.”

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ninja

“There has been discussion of renaming these buildings since at least 2017,” Ruppersberger said in a statement. “As the new Chairman, the time for discussion is over. It’s time for action. Midshipmen who have earned the privilege to study in one of our nation’s most prestigious institutions should not have to walk around campus and see buildings named for men who fought to uphold slavery and promote white supremacy.”

“The academy superintendent’s residence is named after Franklin Buchanan, the academy’s first superintendent who left to join the Confederate Navy at the start of the Civil War. The academy’s Weapons and Systems Engineering division is house in Maury Hall. It’s named after Matthew Fontaine Maury, who was a leader in the fields of naval meteorology and navigation. He headed the coast, harbor and river defenses for the Confederate Navy.”

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ninja

“This isn’t about erasing history,” Ruppersberger said. “We simply shouldn’t lift up traitors who fought against American values like equality and tolerance.”

“We are working hard to attract minority applicants to our service academies and all of our service branches,” Ruppersberger said. “We must send a strong and unequivocal message to all potential minority applicants that we stand united in opposing the glorification of leaders who defended slavery.”

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MCPO USN

Isn’t Ruppersberger a German name? Then by the same thinking he should be erased as being a Nazi supporter.

ninja

“It also suggests the Army review renaming Fort Belvoir in Virginia, which was renamed from Camp Humphreys in 1935 as a direct commemoration of the plantation that once operated on the land.”

“The commission did not recommend new names for the Navy’s ships because that is a job done regularly by the service’s secretary, Seidule said. The Chancellorsville, a guided-missile cruiser, references a Confederate victory during the Civil War and the Maury, an oceanographic
survey ship, honors Matthew Fontaine Maury who resigned from the U.S. Navy to fight with the Confederacy. The Air Force’s Fort Fisher site is named for a Confederate stronghold of the Civil War that honored Charles Frederick Fisher, who served as a colonel in the Confederate army and died in battle in 1861.”

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Sapper3307

Anybody else get this?

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Odie

I do, but is that the unmasked comic in the foreground? I can’t help but point and laugh.

ninja

We posted that very same meme yesterday.

That is Chuck Berry of “The Gong Show”..

We miss Gene, Gene, The Dancing Machine.

The Good Ole Days. When Folks Had A Sense Of Humor.

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Sapper3307

TRUE DAT!!!!!!

Mike B

I guess some places (Streets, etc) named for Union personnel will be renamed also. Did not know this. Thought they were only coming after Rebs…

Seems he led the brutal slaughtered of Native Americans during the Seminole War and later the Yakama War.

Who wants to bet on, what the next “Naming” thing they’ll go after. Cities…..? There are a lot of cities named Columbus like in Christopher Columbus…..Bad. Germanic named places, OMG might be construed as being NAZI related. Maybe rockets are bad, seeing how NAZI scientists helped build our program.

This shit will never end, they’ll just find something else to bitch about.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.military.com/daily-news/2022/08/24/base-neighborhood-named-army-officer-changed-because-of-his-brutal-acts-against-native-americans.html/amp

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A Proud Infidel®™

Chief Seattle also had slaves, so let’s suggest the libs screech for that town to be renamed as well!

ninja

And in the meantime, somewhere in Newark, New Jersey….

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Anonymous

He needs a Captain Morgan pose for that.

Or an appropriate prank photo:
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MCPO USN

That is the Career Criminal Memorial.

rgr769

He is now the patron saint of all career criminals. St. Floyd of Fentanyl.

ninja

And in the meantime, somewhere in Washington, DC…

😉😎

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NDHoosier

Someone needs to put a crack pipe in one of the hands.

Hack Stone

In the movie High School High, they did.

NDHoosier

Hack Stone, you made my day. ROFL!

ninja

😂🤣😅😆😂🤣😅😆😂🤣😅😆

rgr769

When my son was about sixteen, my wife brought home a Marion berry pie. On seeing its label, my son remarked, “why did they name a pie after that bastard!”

Hack Stone

Maybe the DoD should name of the offending military installations after someone who has a profound impact on the lives of minorities over the last 100 years. May Hack Stone suggest Fort Margaret Sanger?

NDHoosier

Margaret Sanger gets my vote for the biggest bitch of 20th century.

ninja

“Behind The Dixie Stars”

“7 minute Documentary featuring Nelson W. Winbush, a black son of confederate black soldier Luis Napoleon Nelson who fought under Nathan Bedford Forest, founder of the KKK. A series of interviews, documentation, stock footage, and reenactments all collaberate to help defend the Confederacy and it’s soldiers against it’s notorious reputation in regards to black slavery and what the confederate flag actually stood for.”

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ninja

“Nelson Wyman Winbush (born 1929) is an educator, who is notable as one of a handful of African-American members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), and for his controversial views, such as his support of the modern display of the Confederate flag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_W._Winbush

“Winbush was born in Ripley, Tennessee, in the Mississippi Delta region, to Isaac and Ganelle Nelson Winbush. His siblings included brothers Robert and Harold, and sisters Mary and Dorothy Jean.[3] His family grew up in the house built in 1908 by his maternal grandfather Louis Napoleon Nelson. As Nelson lived until 1934, Winbush had a few years as a young boy to absorb his vivid first-person accounts of slavery and service as an enslaved person under his masters, ER and Sidney Oldham, while the brothers served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.”

ninja

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_W._Winbush

“Nelson Wyman Winbush (born 1929) is an educator, who is notable as one of a handful of African-American members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), and for his controversial views, such as his support of the modern display of the Confederate flag

ninja

“Winbush was born in Ripley, Tennessee, in the Mississippi Delta region, to Isaac and Ganelle Nelson Winbush. His siblings included brothers Robert and Harold, and sisters Mary and Dorothy Jean.[3] His family grew up in the house built in 1908 by his maternal grandfather Louis Napoleon Nelson. As Nelson lived until 1934, Winbush had a few years as a young boy to absorb his vivid first-person accounts of slavery and service as an enslaved person under his masters, ER and Sidney Oldham, while the brothers served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War

ninja

“Louis Napoleon Nelson (1847–1934) was an enslaved cook and body servant during the American Civil War. In 1862, Louis was a 14-year-old illiterate slave on James and Helen C. Oldham’s plantation in Lauderdale County, Tennessee.
The Oldham’s were a prominent Episcopalian family who owned over 40 slaves. Nelson was one of 19 enslaved children under the age of 16 on the plantation according to the United States Census (1860 Slave Schedule).[4] James and Helen had 3 sons, E.R. (18), Sidney (16), and James (12).”

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ninja

“Louis Napoleon Nelson (1847–1934) was an enslaved cook and body servant during the American Civil War.”

“E.R. and Sidney enlisted in Company M, Tennessee 7th Cavalry (Duckworth’s) in April 1862.”

“As a Confederate slave, Louis was responsible for duties such as cooking breakfast, cleaning, brushing uniforms, taking care of horses, foraging for food, shaving, delivering messages or any other task the owner needed. Sometimes slaves were also allowed to hire out their services if their owner permitted.”

“Company M was one of many Confederate cavalry formations that fell under the overall command of the noted slave trader, planter and Confederate cavalry Lieutenant General, Nathan Bedford Forrest.”

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ninja

“Louis was one of more than 280 men who appeared before the Tennessee pension board to receive the pension created to “provide for those colored men who served as servants and cooks in the Confederate Army.”

“Not every cook or servant qualified for a pension. Eligibility requirements included an inability to support oneself and proof they stayed in the war until the end. The pension paid $10 a month.”

“White Confederate veterans received pensions in 1891 (about 26 years after the war) and their widows first received pensions in 1905.”

“The majority of former Confederate slaves died before the pension bill passed in 1921, which was about 56 years after the war ended. The average age of black pensioners in Tennessee in 1921 was 79.9 years old. At 74, Louis was one of 195 men to receive a pension for being a cook or servant.”

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poetrooper

If this asinine BS pisses you off, just wait till they announce the new names: You can bet the farm there’s going to be a Fort George Floyd in honor of the patron saint of dead drug dealers, and that bit of black vote-baiting will be reinforced by a Fort Brown for Ferguson Missouri’s sainted petty thief and bully.

A Fort Smollett will be a two-fer, solidifying Democrat support in both the gay and black communities. A natural for Fort Rucker will be Fort Martin Luther King, since Alabama was where King got his start preaching and led his famous Selma March.

And speaking of Selma, they’d probably love to rename the USS Chancellorsville for that Alabama symbol civic symbol of civil rights but they’ll be sadly disappointed when they discover that CSS Selma was a steamship in the Confederate Navy.

Speakin’ of steam, Ol’ Poe’s runnin’ out of it. Any of you care to help continue this name game?

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ninja

Amos Rucker.

The pictures say it all….

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11070281/amos-rucker/photo

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ninja

Amos Rucker.

The pictures say it all…..

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ninja

And another one…

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115334965/robert-stover

Former slave Robert Stover filed his Confederate pension record under former owner, Samuel Murray Stover, who was a “Confederate Citizen”; Samuel being a commissary officer who worked with quartermasters to supply the Confederate cavalry with necessities. Robert was with Samuel in March of 1865 at Fall Branch, TN, when they were captured and returned to Elizabethton. Robert served the Confederate cavalry as a teamster. They were returning from Virginia when captured. Robert Stover’s Pension Application was filed as C-91, filed with the papers of Samuel. Robert did not live long enough to draw his pension, dying on August 15, 1924. He is buried in Drake (Stover, Fitzsimmons)Cemetery, off Hwy 91 near Fitzsimmons Road. His marriage to Lettitia Carter in Carter County, TN is recorded as May 28,1870.

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ninja

Another One…

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115334965/robert-stover

“Former slave Robert Stover filed his Confederate pension record under former owner, Samuel Murray Stover, who was a “Confederate Citizen”; Samuel being a commissary officer who worked with quartermasters to supply the Confederate cavalry with necessities. Robert was with Samuel in March of 1865 at Fall Branch, TN, when they were captured and returned to Elizabethton. Robert served the Confederate cavalry as a teamster. They were returning from Virginia when captured. Robert Stover’s Pension Application was filed as C-91, filed with the papers of Samuel. Robert did not live long enough to draw his pension, dying on August 15, 1924. He is buried in Drake (Stover, Fitzsimmons)Cemetery, off Hwy 91 near Fitzsimmons Road.”

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ninja

“Former slave Robert Stover filed his Confederate pension…”

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115334965/robert-stover

Former slave Robert Stover filed his Confederate pension record under former owner, Samuel Murray Stover, who was a “Confederate Citizen”; Samuel being a commissary officer who worked with quartermasters to supply the Confederate cavalry with necessities. Robert was with Samuel in March of 1865 at Fall Branch, TN, when they were captured and returned to Elizabethton. Robert served the Confederate cavalry as a teamster. They were returning from Virginia when captured. Robert Stover’s Pension Application was filed as C-91, filed with the papers of Samuel. Robert did not live long enough to draw his pension, dying on August 15, 1924.

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ninja

“Memorial to Confederate soldiers in Monroe”
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/memorial-confederate-soldiers-monroe/223366862/

“A memorial to 10 black Confederate soldiers will be dedicated in Monroe at the grounds of the Union County Historic Courthouse at 2 p.m.”

“Residents fought for years to honor the group known as the Pensioners of Color with a permanent memorial.”

“Descendants of several of the soldiers will speak in their memory at the service.”

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ninja

“Union County Slave Finally Gets Recognition For Confederate Army Service”
https://www.wfae.org/2012-02-19/union-county-slave-finally-gets-recognition-for-confederate-army-service

“A grave at a Union County Church that was marked only with a pile bricks for the past 80 years is receiving long-awaited recognition, the Charlotte Observer reports. The Sons of Confederate Veterans planned a ceremony for Saturday that included a cannon salute and civil war re-enactors at Philadelphia Baptist Church in Marshville. The event honored Aaron Perry, a Union County slave that followed his owner and served in 37th N.C. Regiment in the Confederate Army. Perry served as a “body servant” or bodyguard for his owner, Lt. Col. John B. Ashcraft, a veterinarian and a member of one of Monroe ‘s most prominent families.”

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ninja

“Although slave labor was used in the logistical running of the war, including building latrines and cooking, historians stress that very few black men actually fought with the South. Perry was one of 10 black men from Union County to serve in the Confederate Army. Much later, these men received small state pensions. Local historian and SCV member Tony Way was researching the slaves that had received such pensions when he came across Mr. Perry. He connected with Perry’s relatives that now live in Charlotte , who were well aware of their ancestor’s story. Although they had the money to engrave a stone, his family did not see much need. “That’s just what they did back then,” said Aaron Perry, who was named for his great grandfather. So with the help of the SCV, the Perry’s placed a granite marker and a donated Cross of Honor on the gravesite.”

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ninja
poetrooper

Attaway Dod–hire a flagrant racist to head your anti-racism program… 🙄 

Anonymous

Democrats gonna Democrat.

Devtun

In other news…

Jesse Waters of Fox News reported FL Gov Ron DeSantis has sent a plane load full of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard. Oh boy, sh*ts getting real. Stay tuned.

Av8or33

Now that’s awesome! Probably would have been fully employed during tourist season but now it might be a problem.

The Stranger

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
*Cough*
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
*Cough* *Cough*
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
*Cough* *Cough* *GASP*
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

That’ll learn ‘em!

The Stranger

Damn. Now I’m parched. Time for a frosty Yuengling Oktoberfest!

KoB

Draw two, Pappy. I need something to go with this popcorn.

ninja

We wish someone would send them to Joeyland in Delaware.

Cornpop would have welcomed them with open arms.

Send them to Plastic Pelosi Land as well…Let Paulie deal with them.

Also, send then to Kamala Land…and Maxine Land…or send them near Sandy Cortez’s quarters…

Don’t Mess With The South.

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Fyrfighter

Sounds like Heels Up got two bus loads on her doorstep… They say the border is open.. she says it’s secure. Who ya gonna believe? The tramp that never went near the border, or the illegals who crossed it?

A Proud Infidel®™

And the local bleeding heart libs are going batshit about a paltry 50 illegal aliens delivered to them!

rgr769

They are going to promptly ship them off the island.

Skivvy Stacker

If I hear one more leftist use the word “problematic” I’m going to give them something problematic when I jam my foot up their ass.

Leave that damn memorial alone and right where it is. You start pulling that one down, and before you know it, they’ll be pulling down others. Hell, they’ll probably demand that the Unknown Soldier be dug up to determine if he’s white. They’ll demand we make sure that minorities are properly represented in the Iwo Jima statue. They’ll want the Perpetual Light on JFKs grave extinguished because it’s reminiscent of the KKK using torches to burn freed slaves.

The Stranger

Well, seeing as Ira Hayes was a Native American, I would say that the statue has that covered!😂

A Proud Infidel®™

We currently have record high crime rates as well as groups pushing harder for racial/ethnic/economic segregation in this country, wasn’t the removal of the statues already done supposed to have cured everything by now?

Tallyspammer

I am an idiot if I think anyone will actually believe this drivel.

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timactual

Nothing says unite the country and bind up and heal the wounds like insulting and humiliating the brothers, sons, and fathers of the victors. If only we had spent half the effort denazifying Germany after WWII as we are de-confederatizing our supposedly re-united country.

Somehow I think the Union soldiers who fought and suffered and died at the hands of Confederate soldiers have a kinder and more charitable attitude towards their fellow Americans than our present day caring and compassionate concerned citizens. Lincoln weeps.

” On December 8, 1863, both to weaken the Confederacy and looking toward the end of the war, President Lincoln issued a proclamation granting a full pardon, with restoration of all rights of property except as to slaves, to Confederates who would take an oath of allegiance to the United States and promise not to take up arms against it. “

KoB

“…with malice toward none and charity for all…” The worse thing that happened to the South was JWB. Lincoln’s plan for the reconstruction of the South was way yonder different than what became Reconstruction under Bayonet Rule. He also had plans for re-settling Africans back to Africa. The Carpetbaggers and “Radical Republicans” worked with the Scallawags (Democrats) to institute the share cropper system that help keep black and white Southerners in economic bondage for decades. King Cotton was needed to feed the Northern Mills of cheap raw materials. It took decades and the boll weevil to break that cycle. Many former Confederates served in the US Military after that war and many millions of their offspring have served since then.

There are north of 80 MILLION Citizens of this Country that are decendants of Confederate Soldiers.

SFC D

I’m thinking Cesar Chavez’s name should be stricken from the rolls. He absolutely despised illegal aliens.