re: #293 HappyWarrior

We have this thing going on around our area now where a Confederate group is buying tiny parcels of land just off the interstate highway in order to install huge Stars and Bars flags.

Of course, Western NC was quite ambivalent (if not outright hostile) to the Civil War - especially after conscription was ordered. My dad’s family fought on both sides - the ones located in the mountains stuck with the Union; the ones in Central NC went with Lee’s army.