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Kentucky

marble falls

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2. Think how conflicted some in my family are:

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Dec 1, 2017, 11:59 AM

Dec 2017

Last edited Fri Dec 1, 2017, 12:47 PM - Edit history (2)

My great-great-great-grandfather was Charles Slaughter Morehead. He was the Whig/Knownothing pro-slavery, anti-secessionist Governor of Kentucky who was jailed by Lincoln when he suspended Habeas Corpus rights during the Civil War.

Another of my family also won a posthumous Medal of Honor for his part in the Andrews Raid/Great Locamotive Chase.

But the fact is all these Confederate "memorials" just plain need to be removed with as little announcement of fanfare. They are only part of our shameful history.

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The president of slave-holding Confederate states still a hero in Kentucky Capitol [View all] TexasTowelie Dec 2017 OP

A Border State with slaves that did not join the confederacy. Chasstev365 Dec 2017 #1

Think how conflicted some in my family are: marble falls Dec 2017 #2