Teaching Confederate history in a changing world
APR news feature-- Teaching Confederate history in a changing world The Confederate Rest Cemetery in Point Clear is a quiet place. Headstones, new and old, mark 19th century graves. Richard Sheely points out, however, that this was not always such as peaceful location. More than 350 soldiers were hastily buried here when the nearby Grand Hotel was used as a Civil War military hospital. "If you notice those areas that are chained off," Sheely said, pointing to rectangular plots marked by chains. Richard Sheely, of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Credit APR's Guy Busby "Those are mass graves a...
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