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Way down at the bottom of this AP story about the ongoing cost of all our wars is this interesting tidbit, “The Civil War payments are going to two children of veterans — one in North Carolina and one in Tennessee — each for $876 per year.”

I can’t decide if it’s more shocking that there are still kids of Civil War veterans who are alive or that our country doesn’t die of shame only giving them $876 a year.

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A hotly debated bill that would protect memorials commemorating Tennessee’s
Civil War heroes — making it harder for them to be moved or renamed — is being considered by state lawmakers.

“I just want to preserve our history,’’ Republican Rep. Steve McDaniel, who is sponsoring the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act, told The Tennessean newspaper.

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Occupied by the Confederacy’s Army of the Mississippi (23 July-28 August 1862), by the Confederacy’s Army of Tennessee (4 July-9 September), and by the Union’s Army of the Cumberland (9 September 1863-May 1864), being the focus of one of the longest and bloodiest campaigns of the Civil War (21 August-28 November 1863), and serving as long-term home base for the Union’s Department of the Cumberland (9 September 1863-20 August 1866), the town of Chattanooga and its surrounding region became home to many forts, redoubts, earthworks, lunettes, rifle pits, breastworks, redans, lilts, and other fortifications.

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