Reply To: Fly the flag of the Confederate States of America?

[_Robert_]

@Gallup
In my opinion each locality should decide through our local government what is right for local public lands, not the feds.
Have you ever read the letters from confederate soldiers? You may get some insight into why they really fought…It’s the same theme over and over, they fight for their fellow soldiers, friends and relatives….I would bet many did not support slavery. BTW, I have never experienced racism of the intensity like I have in my business travels to Northern cities such as Boston and New York, or in my dealings with some Northerners. Mr. Bunker is alive and well.

“Dear Mother,
I tell you it was a trying case for me to pass so near home and not call but I pondered the matter. I thought sufficiently and thought it was my duty to stick to the company, deny myself, forsake home for the present and cleave to the cause of our bleeding country to drive the oppressors from our soil which threatens our own door. I thought we was badly needed or we would not a been sent for. I knew it would not be much pleasure for me to beat home without leave. I may never see you nor my home again but if I never do I can’t help it. I expect to be a man of Honor to our country at the risk of my life. I don’t want to be a disgrace to myself nor my relations. It is unknown who will get killed in this fight. It may be me and if I do get killed if there is any chance I want my body taken up and laid in the dust round old Sweetwater and I want a tombstone put at my head with my name and my company and regiment…..”
excerpt from a letter by Eli Pinson Landers, 1863