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This is the actual zoning map. you can zoom in, and you'll see that's us right here. that entire area is zoned business commercial. that's it. this is the little piece that this fight is over. how is 0.003 acres a legitimate business commercial piece of property? it's not. the sons of the confederate veterans want to use that piece of property to keep maurice's hateful legacy living onto perpetuity. >> in orangeburg the battle to remove a confederate flag that flies next to an ice cream shop continues tonight. >> they took their concerns to the city in hopes that zoning where that flag sits co...

None of them are helping to get this thing going. i think i've got someone coming in to get the thing down, but i don't know if i'll ever get to the bottom of it. it sucks. >> the controversy over a confederate flag continues tonight. >> justin and i have tried to exhaust all reasonable avenues, and it's just not working. >> tommy daris is now threatening to remove the flag and confederate marker himself. >> maurice bessen jr planned it just so he could shove that flag up everybody's ass in the city of orangeburg for eternity. >> he said he sent the sons of confederacy want their flag they nee...

>> i think they got it wrong personally, but we'll deal with it. >> a confederate flag flying beside a south carolina ice cream parlor is igniting new concerns. >> the creamery received this racially charged letter. >> his business has been vandalized multiple times. his employees have been harassed and a riot nearly started outside his shop. >> keep that flag flying! ♪♪ >> this peg is where that property line is, and that peg there when you stand out here for a moment they're hollering take it down or leave it alone

12 copper coins, confederate buttons, even a picture of former president lincoln lying in his coffin. only one photo of the casket still exists and the conditions inside the capsule aren't exactly ideal. >> water just squeezed out of it. maybe more wet than we hoped for. >> reporter: one of the first items pulled out, a coin. >> the coin says, 1883. appears to be silver. united states. fofrz. >> reporter: as sconservation experts dug deeper -- >> 1881 by daniel murphy. constitution of bylaws of virginia, 1887. >> reporter: also a mass on i can flag carved out of wood and this 1884 commemorativ...

And some items dating back to the american civil war found in a time capsule. randi kaye has the details. >> reporter: it wasn't easy, but conservators in richmond, virginia drilled their way into this time capsule that's more than 100 years old. >> we're going to cut down one side of the box where i won't hit anything and relieve some of the pressure. >> reporter: the capsule was discovered monday beneath the base of the robert e. lee statue, months after this historic moment. the 134-year-old time capsule is made of copper. and according to the richmond dispatch newspaper from 1887, is suppo...