Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Sons of Confederacy sees flag controversy as 'nightmare'
 
The Confederate battle flag is removed from the pole at the South Carolina statehouse grounds during a ceremony in Columbia
 
 
"I’ll use the words of Jefferson Davis: ‘We just want to be left alone,’” Charles Kelly Barrow said on Wednesday, quoting the man who served as the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War of 1861-65.
Barrow and about 1,000 members of his organization were in Richmond, Virginia, this week for the 120th national reunion of the SCV, formed in 1896 and open to male descendants of Confederate soldiers. Richmond is the former capital city of the Confederacy.
 

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