TimesDispatch.com | 'Dixie' field trip angers elementary school parent. this is about a field trip to an event put on by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. In case mommy hasn't figured it out, the area around Richmond was a battlefield in 1862 and then again in 1864-5. Lots of US history happened in Mechanicsville, Hanover County and Henrico County. I think it is important that we continue to remember those events and not cover them up with the usual PC blanket.
Frankly, Mannerin's "Fields of Honor" ought to be a must read for all Richmond area students before graduation from High School. Tough slogging if you are not interested in the minutia of detail that Mannerin goes into, but it certainly gives one a good feeling for what happened here during the war, and why you can walk in the woods and see all those trenches. Yes, the "works" are still there in many places after a century and a half.
I've toyed with being a member of CSV but have elected not to join. (I could get in using many different Confederate Veterans). I've yet to meet one who was some sort of avowed racist. We've moved past that. Many of the more ardent members simply resent the revisionist rewrite of history.
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