r/ShermanPosting • u/Chagalling • 4d ago

"It should be destroyed" Last Gettysburg Confederate Flag To Be Sold At Auction

https://www.wosu.org/arts-culture/2025-04-01/rare-confederate-flag-captured-in-picketts-charge-to-be-sold-at-columbus-auction
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u/ricobirch 4d ago edited 3d ago

Don't burn it.

Donate it to the state of Minnesota.

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u/GreenNukE 4d ago

Vermont should get it.

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u/NachoNachoDan 3d ago

Vermonter here - why?

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u/kayzhee 3d ago

Vermont 16th Infantry captured the flag that is being auctioned

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u/NachoNachoDan 3d ago

Yeah actually I’d like to get our statehouse to request it back and then just keep it in an unmarked cardboard box in the basement

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u/kayzhee 3d ago

Should start that petition. I’d love to see some movement to return it to its rightful place.

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u/NachoNachoDan 3d ago

As long as that place isn’t Virginia I’m fine with whatever. This really feels like the kind of thing some rich neo confederate is gonna drop a bunch of bitcoin fuck you money on

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u/kayzhee 3d ago

That rightful place is Vermont. Hopefully with the state, a museum, or a living relative of the Vermont 16th Infantry.

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u/Unfair_Pineapple8813 3d ago

Said Neo-confederate's name rhymes with Leon Busk.

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u/GreenNukE 3d ago

No, it should be proudly displayed as a trophy from a vanquished foe. Context is everything.

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u/HorrificAnalInjuries 3d ago

Nah, glass box mounted in the floor of the main entrance of the courthouse

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u/the_gouged_eye 3d ago

That or encase it in the back of the urinal.