After years of resisting calls to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of South Carolina’s State House, Haley endorsed and signed legislation taking the flag down less than a month after the shooting.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/nikki-haley-launches-2024-presidential-campaign/

Among those who converged on the capital Ottawa, some protesters were far-Right extremists brandishing Nazi symbols and Confederate flags; many were anti-vaxxers; and some engaged in violence.

Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/08/20/justin-trudeau-legacy-unravels-canada-disillusion-liberals/

Another example of Regan’s mismanagement of the trust granted to him under the city charter is his handling of racial tensions that led to the uprooting of the Confederate memorial from the Plaza de la Constitución.

Source: https://historiccity.com/2023/staugustine/news/regan-leaves-the-city-of-st-augustine-142111

A thousand miles to the southwest, Union forces were preparing to lay siege to Vicksburg, the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River.

Source: https://www.bakersfield.com/columnists/robert-price/robert-price-160-years-ago-a-culture-defining-atrocity-on-the-kern-river/article_7a4eecf6-dbb5-11ed-9a2d-eb9986e5ccfe.html

But as Wins has overseen reforms such as the removal of Confederate emblems from campus, and hired consultants on diversity, equity and inclusion to advise the college, he has faced the wrath of Daniel's Spirit of VMI PAC.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11779043/VMI-alums-lash-black-superintendent-diversity-policies.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

“Eugenia, a spy, delivered Union military plans and maps to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.”

Source: https://www.jta.org/2023/06/02/united-states/a-supreme-court-justice-and-a-confederate-spy-are-two-of-the-notorious-jews-highlighted-in-a-new-dc-museum

Even if economic reality (being frozen out of global financial markets, just for starters) doomed the Confederate cause from the start, Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia went down fighting.

Source: https://www.fark.com/comments/12769536?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=comments&utm_campaign=fark

History.com notes that, in 1866, the Georgia-based Ladies Memorial Association, one of many similar organizations to arise in the aftermath of the war, pushed for a day to honor fallen Confederate soldiers.

Source: https://www.franklinshopper.com/interesting-facts-about-memorial-day-2.html

In 1863, Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee routed Union troops under Gen. Joseph Hooker at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia.

Source: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2023/05/06/thisday-may6/9121683316179/

Inside the fort are guns left over from the fighting plus history lessons of what the fort looked like before the bombing and then as a Confederate outpost during the war.

Source: https://www.postandcourier.com/mycharleston/charlestons-military-history-spans-more-than-350-years-and-much-of-it-is-easy-to/article_ce118404-e856-11ed-8c48-0ba621b0e1cd.html

Johnson’s name is a perfect one to replace that of a Confederate traitor, as his story shows not just outstanding courage but the ways the nation failed Black service members.

Source: https://www.nationalmemo.com/confederate-traitors-2661350820

Lincoln had finally issued an order of retaliation against Confederate prisoners.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/abraham-lincoln-lessons/675421/?utm_source=feed

Many of the Confederate troops halted as the Union camp was overrun, eating the food the retreating troops had been preparing, ransacking their camp in search of valuables that the fleeing army had been left behind.

Source: https://miamivalleytoday.com/stillwater-civil-war-roundtable-examines-battle-of-shiloh/

On the national level, the U.S. Department of Defense established (with congressional endorsement) a “Naming Commission” to remove the names of Confederate generals from U.S. military bases.

Source: https://patriotpost.us/articles/94815-racism-in-america-bridging-the-gaps-2023-02-09

Prior to the Civil War, Confederate Vice President and other white supremacists emphasized that their new government would be founded on slavery, based on the truth that the negro is unequal when compared to the white man.

Source: https://thyblackman.com/2023/07/29/sorry-republican-gov-ron-desantis-there-was-no-silver-lining-to-slavery/

Section 3 of the amendment, ratified after the Civil War to deal with former Confederate figures, says no person who took an oath to support the Constitution but then “engaged in insurrection” can hold office in the United States.

Source: https://pagosadailypost.com/2023/12/28/opinion-mistaken-dissent-at-the-colorado-supreme-court/

So the statue of the Confederate general that once stood in Charlottesville — the one that prompted the deadly Unite the Right rallyin 2017 — was now being cut into fragments and dropped into a furnace, dissolving into a sludge of glowing bronze.

Source: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/10/loose-ends-233-2.php

That section, established after the Civil War to prevent Confederate leaders from running for president, bars anyone who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United States from running for public office.

Source: https://www.thewrap.com/trump-banned-maine-ballot/

The connection from our past history to our current events shows that each institution has found their unique way of preserving, defending, and advancing the Confederate cause of White supremacy.

Source: https://thyblackman.com/2023/06/20/black-americans-and-white-americans-why-were-military-bases-named-after-failed-confederates/

The lawsuit says the district has allowed students to wear clothing decorated with Confederate flags but prohibited Black Lives Matter T-shirts.

Source: https://afro.com/aclu-lawsuit-says-georgia-school-district-ignored-racism-targeting-black-students/