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Plans to display a battle flag used by the 11th Virginia Infantry regiment during ... which they assert was used by a Confederate regiment manned by Lynchburg soldiers in the Battle of Five ...
The Confederate battle flag at the center of a community debate ... of Five Forks near Petersburg on April 1, 1865. The 11th Virginia Infantry Regiment was organized in Lynchburg in May 1861 ...
Jared Hagerman, an African American behavior therapist who grew up in the area, said he has been around the Confederate flag all of his life. Hagerman said he has good friends who have worn the ...
LOUISA — The legal battle over a large Confederate battle flag visible from Interstate ... The flag was erected in Louisa in March 2018 by the Virginia Flaggers after a private citizen reached ...
While the Confederate battle flag's origin is a "military symbol of ... of the nation's troops — about 420,000 — are based in Virginia, Texas, North Carolina and Georgia alone.
A huge Confederate battle flag just outside of Lexington ... and across the country over displays of the Confederate flag. The Virginia Flaggers, a group that opposes efforts to remove the rebel ...
Carried by the 11th Virginia Infantry during Pickett’s Charge, a failed Confederate assault in 1863 on the Gettysburg battle’s third day, the flag was acquired after heated bidding between ...
The group feels neither institution pays due respect to the Confederate flag. “The Virginia Flaggers basically ... most of the structure’s history. “Battle flags were introduced to the ...
The National Park Service last week sent an email asking its cooperating associations, concessions and vendors to voluntarily stop selling Confederate ... that the battle flag can be offensive ...
FAIRFIELD — Raymond Agnor’s gigantic Confederate battle flag ... passed an ordinance that allowed only the U.S., Virginia and city flags to be hung from the government-owned fixtures.
Green Bluff's Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial Day weekend. Late Saturday morning, Union and Confederate soldiers traded ...
It was only after the Virginia Supreme Court upheld a decision to remove the city of Danville’s Confederate battle flag from public property in the fall of 2016 that Szakos said she felt it was ...