Nebraska honors.....ohmigod, gasp, horror.....the Confederacy

[franksolich]

http://www.omaha.com/news/military/honor-a-confederate-soldier-in-nebraska-no-two-ways-about/article_b00d0325-7381-5d46-80c2-42c1255ea8be.html

Oh my.

This is practically almost nearly within walking distance of where franksolich played golf when an adolescent in the Sandhills of Nebraska.

One wonders if the big guy'll post this same story on Skins's island; I think there's an offhand chance he will, the big oaf.

Honor a Confederate soldier in Nebraska? No two ways about it

For the better part of a century, the remains of Confederate Civil War veteran Francis Henry Barnacassel have lain in a grave at a cemetery in Callaway, Nebraska. Only a weathered mortician’s marker and, oddly, a metal star of a Union veterans organization, the Grand Army of the Republic, marked the spot.
 
Still, Betty Brown, 86, of Mullen, Nebraska, had visited the grave each Memorial Day since 1947 — with her husband, Francis Brown, a Barnacassel descendant, until his death in 1993, and then with her daughter, Viv Frazier.....

.....They wanted to ask permission from Barnacassel’s family, but their search came up empty.

“We just decided to go ahead and do it,” Hiatt said. “It was huge that it was set up right before his family showed up.”.....

[Airwolf]

Thios is strange as I think Nebraska wasn't a state at the time,just a territory. So the connection to Nebraska must have been after the war.