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Confederate canon... ready for inaction

By Hawes Spencer |
Published online 4:17pm Sunday Aug 26th, 2012
and in print issue #1135 dated Thursday Aug 30th, 2012

One of the pair of Confederate cannons on the grounds of Albemarle County courts complex aims out at passersby on a recent August day.

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6 comments

Move 'Em Or Lose 'Em August 26th, 2012 | 6:21pm

Whole lotta slave-breedin' make for a righteous land o' liberty.

seen it before August 26th, 2012 | 6:35pm

Yassuh, and freedom ain't slowed 'em down none, eithuh!

Cvillian August 26th, 2012 | 10:56pm

Give them to John Douglass, the Confederate re-enactor who, in Rebel officers garb and under the Confederate "stars and bars" flag, drags his own cannons into mock battle. The irony? He's the Democratic candidate for Congress in the 5th District. His black voter base is not amused.

seen it before August 27th, 2012 | 7:56am

And the problem with that is...?

seen it before August 27th, 2012 | 8:07am

Oh, and if in your hallucination the so-called "stars and bars" is in the shape of an "x", you have no idea what you are talking about. By the way, do you disdain all reenactors, or only the ones who wear gray?

AT August 27th, 2012 | 10:21am

Seriously? Do you all have middle-schoolers doing your writing and editing? I believe 'cannon' should be spelled 'cannon'. Oh wait, you spelled it correctly at least once....