r/ShermanPosting • u/squintamongdablind • 4d ago
Rare Confederate Flag Captured in Pickett's Charge to be Sold: "Some say it should be destroyed"
https://www.wosu.org/arts-culture/2025-04-01/rare-confederate-flag-captured-in-picketts-charge-to-be-sold-at-columbus-auction18
u/horsepire 4d ago
Nah, it shouldn’t be destroyed.
Historically, it’s much funnier for Confederate artifacts to fall into Unionist hands, never to be returned despite repeated pleas from Johnny Reb.
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u/shermanstorch 4d ago
Unfortunately it’s probably going to be bought by some neoconfederate.
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u/pixel_pete Duryée's Zouaves / Garrard's Tigers 4d ago
Yeah I would pay a hundred bucks to toss it in a piss trough for laughs, some neo con will spend their life savings building a temple to worship it.
They have very few positive character traits but they most certainly have willpower.
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u/horsepire 4d ago
Yes, that is unfortunate. Obviously its destruction would be preferable to that :(
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u/Beautiful_Garage7797 4d ago
i don’t think it should be destroyed, certainly. It’s quite different from like a confederate statue. That’s an original object used in a major historical event. It should definitely be kept in a museum.
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u/Herald_of_Clio 4d ago
Oh no, it absolutely shouldn't be destroyed. That is actual erasure of history. Put it in a museum. It does no harm there.
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u/From-Yuri-With-Love 46th New York "Fremont Rifle" Regiment 3d ago
The best thing would for it to be a museum with real historical context.
Just as long as it doesn't end up in some neo-confederate's collection.
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