Perhaps it looked too much like the infield grass.
Posted on 08/15/2011 6:35:58 AM PDT by Libloather
Confederate soldier stands his ground
By: Danielle Battaglia
Published: August 14, 2011
Despite the Reidsville Confederate Monument officially departing his post on Scales Street, another soldier is taking his place and standing up for what he believes is right.
On Friday morning, Jamie Funkhouser, the confederate soldier who came to Reidsville in June to raise awareness for the city council meeting discussing the future of the monument, returned to bring awareness to the fact that the soldier will soon be moved.
The Reidsville Monument stood at the intersection of Scales Street and West Morehead Street for 101 years until Mark Anthony Vincent, of Greensboro, fell asleep behind the wheel of his car, knocking the statue off its pedestal and onto the hood of his car, shattering the statue.
According to a press release Tuesday afternoon, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Reidsville City Council agreed that replacing the monument on its pedestal would be a divisive factor in the community and it should be moved elsewhere.
**SNIP**
Funkhouser said this statue has the same right to be there as any other war soldier. He also said that this soldier is not a race issue because all races fought under the confederate flag and people of all races have come and supported him Friday morning.
“If they remove this monument, it won’t keep me from coming back,” Funkhouser said. “I will come back here for years and be the Confederate soldier watching over Reidsville.”
The UDC is waiting word from the Vincent’s insurance company before deciding what to do with the monument.
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I’ve been to a lot of Eastern Theatre battlefield parks and Antietam is the most “realistic” one. It looks quite close to when the battle happened. Not much development up there(yet). Some improvements would be get rid of the sunken road tower, and restore the sunken road all the way to Burnsides bridge.
Wideawake is at least civil.
[no pun intended...maybe]
;]
Thanks for the link to the story behind the General Lee statue at Antietam. It was built on private land outside of the park, then the park bought the land.
We face a similar situation at Point Lookout Prison in Maryland where many Confederate soldiers where held and many died. The park there will not allow Confederate flags to be flown except on maybe two days a year. Folks then built a monument on private land next to the park.
We went to Point Lookout after visiting Antietam. My wife’s great grandfather died in the prison in 1864, but the official death rolls did not have a record of him. This was true of many Confederates who died there. My wife found a brick honoring her ancestor at the private monument. Some other descendants must have paid for the brick.
That is the one I’ve been referring to and it’s *outside* of the national park property.
A private citizen paid for both the land and the statue.
There are NO monuments to Lee on site and I think there’s like *4* Confederate stones in the whole, huge park.
And yes, it is agonizingly beautiful country.
I’m blessed to live so nearby.
I hope y’all climbed the tower while you were there....:)
You’re right...the TN monument is heart breaking.
One of the Gettysburg documentaries I watched recently they devoted a lot of time to the “lowly” standard bearers.
-Knowing- that they were painting a huge target on their backs, the nearest soldiers would rush to grab the flag before it hit the ground when the current bearer went down.
And now, scumbags joyously burn our flag in the streets.
There’s an object lesson there, somewhere.
Perfect example of re-writing history, er...making up krap to enhance YOUR storyline. If you don't like the history...MAKE UP YOUR OWN.
*chortle*
So many flawed analogies, so little time.
How long ago was your last visit?
I hardly recognize it between the 70s and now.
Back then, it was still sunken, dirty, dusty, rough and wonderfully atmospheric just as it was.
Now there’s a parking lot right on top of it, grass planted all over it and it just looks to “happy”, to me.
There’s just no “feel” of what happened there left, anymore.
http://www.civilwaralbum.com/antietam/tour8.htm
Back when I was young, you could actually drive *over* Burnside Bridge.
Now it’s blocked off with a parking lot on the hill overlooking it.
We were just there a couple weeks ago and I was shocked.
I *like* the tower.
[hubby’s not much for heights and I get to mess with his head once we’re up there]...;D
I like Gettysburg better, especially during the off season when I have Little Round Top and Devil’s Den pretty much all to myself.
Well, I just hope everyone is enjoying their new, massive, intrusive, jack-booted centralized and federalized government.
I know I am.
/s
“hope they leave that crap above the MDL”
Nope.
They didn’t.
We got carpet-bagged, big time.
Really?!?
I’m shocked!
Since when?
We kept a cabin cruiser docked at Coles Point Marina back in the 70s and often putted over to Point Lookout.
[great water for catching foul-tempered, toothy, tasty Bluefish]
They had flags back then.
Hell, Coles Point was flying them everywhere, too.
What happened??
The park *still* doesn’t own the land on which Lee stands or it’d be gone in a Yankee heartbeat.
They only bought the farm across the road from it.
It’s full of Longhorns and Mulberry trees.
:)
Where exactly is the Lee statue relative to the rest of the park? The article you linked to said the park bought the land and the statue in 2005. How far away from the rest of the park is it? If I had known where it was, I’d have gone to see it.
My son and I climbed the tower. We also found the Texas monument, erected by the state in 1964 out of Texas granite. There is a similar Texas monument at Shiloh. We also saw a Georgia monument at Antietam.
Some of the modern looking plaques/informational signs show graphically the number of men on both sides of the particular area of the battle it describes. One of those at the sunken road shows 10,000 Federal troops versus 3,000 Confederates. The one at Burnside’s Bridge showed 500 Confederates versus 5,200 Federals.
And...I bet Mr. Funkhouser feels secure (and safe) knowing he has one of the town’s security cameras trained directly on him...
Gee...you’re right:
“But there were never plans to remove the statue then, and there are none now, acting park superintendent Ed Wenschhof said recently”
Probably nobody told me because they knew I’d pop a gasket.
I don’t trust the libs who run the battlefield as far as I can throw them...or their “no plans” weasel words.
When you leave the park by the main entrance, you turn left, go all the way to the stop sign at Sharpsburg, turn left again [the battlefield cemetery is on your right as you go around the corner] and then drive about 3 miles to the Newcomer Farm property.
As soon as you see the big barn....STOP! and look -back- over your shoulder to the left.
You can’t miss it.
The red dot is about where it is:
http://www.walagata.com/w/the-salamander/6515466.jpg
You guys must have gone over the battlefield with a fine-tooth comb to find any Southern stones.
Good show...:)
My family fought for the North....but, I still say, PUT IT BACK!....for history sake. Traditions and heritage are important.
As do we all, no doubt.
Just for kicks one day, look up and marvel at all the cameras you’d never see, otherwise.
A woman I used to know worked upstairs in the Wal*Mart security center.
They have cameras in the dressing rooms.
If that doesn’t make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, I don’t know what would.
I may be the only person I know who tries on new bras *over* my shirt.
No way I’m giving hired peeping Toms their jollies.
Well bless your heart!
The monument should be preserved. But it should be moved to a safer location where it won’t be subject to gomers slamming into it.
And no, it wouldn’t be “censorship” if it were moved.
Perhaps it looked too much like the infield grass.
In which posts do yankees say that the statue shouldn't be put back? Who is protesting?
They always have to have a self congratulatory horn to toot
And southerners are always thin-skinned and imagining slights where none exist.
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