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oswaldactedalone

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3. Many Confederate Soldiers

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 17, 2017, 08:59 PM

Aug 2017

headed west into the territories following the war. The first and second generation daughters and granddaughters of the vanquished soldiers, the original United Daughter's of the Confederacy, wanted them remembered as soldiers while also sticking it to any uppity black citizens to remember their place as second class citizens.

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