Civil War Ain’t History, It’s Not Even Past

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It’s amazing we’re still dealing with this nonsense.

A plan to build a monument to Union soldiers at the site of the biggest Civil War battle in Florida (The Battle of Olustee) has hit a snag. A group of neo-confederate whackjobs are pledging a ‘second battle of Olustee’ to prevent building on this “hallowed grown [sic] where Southern blood was spilled in defense of Florida.”

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