[h=1]As others tear down Confederate monuments, Alabama unveils a new one[/h]
As cities across the country are tearing down and relocating Confederate monuments, a county in southern Alabama on Sunday unveiled a new one.Several hundred people attended a dedication ceremony for the "Unknown Alabama Confederate Soldiers" at Confederate Veterans Memorial Park in Crenshaw County, Alabama, 55 miles (88 kilometers) south of Montgomery.
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NEW CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS ARE QUIETLY GOING UP ACROSS THE U.S.
New Confederate statues and plaques are appearing across the country, and authorities are powerless to act because many are being built on private land.
The white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August inspired a wave of revulsion toward monuments honoring the slave-owning Confederacy.
After "racist" (quotation marks mine) groups gathered in the Virginia college town to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, demonstrators in Durham, North Carolina, reacted by taking down Confederate soldiers' monuments, while authorities in towns and universities across the country removed statues from public land.
But those who honor the Confederacy have been quietly working to preserve, and even increase, the number of Confederate monuments.
An 8-foot statue of a Confederate soldier in Lee Park, in Pensacola, Florida, on August 20.
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In the small town of Orange, on the Texas-Louisiana border, the privately funded Confederate Memorial of the Wind is nearing completion. Stretching across a half-acre, the monument’s 13 pillars, each representing a Confederate state, rise from a circular base. It will eventually be surrounded by poles flying Confederate battle flags.
In Chickamauga, Georgia, last year, a new statue to a Confederate soldiers was raised, funded by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a society that aims to keep the memory of the Confederacy alive.
Local chapters of the group have placed plaques for Confederate soldiers killed in minor skirmishes in Tennessee, and the group is fundraising for a National Confederate Museum on the grounds of its headquarters in Columbia, Tennessee, with construction set to start in 2018.
Monuments have also gone up this year on the spot of the battle of Aiken, South Carolina; Crenshaw County Park, Alabama; and, in 2016, in the town of Dahlonega, Georgia.
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