7:56 am on Wednesday May 11, 2011
| Posted by Luke Kerr-Dineen
Civil war troops honored on Confederate Memorial Day
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An annual ceremony a the Beaufort National Ceremony yesterday saw The Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy honor more than 100 confederate soldiers in a 45-minute service Tuesday, May 11, Confederate Memorial Day.
The day, which was adopted as a South Carolina holiday in 2000 as a compromise for agreeing to create Martin Luther King Day, stands on the anniversary of the Death of Southern general Stonewall Jackson.
Read the Packet's coverage of the event here.
- Or here to read about other civil war news in the area.
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