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Veterans praised as generation from old guards to modern times
The ceremony honored aged Confederates and World War II descendants with service crosses from the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Rev. D H Carr, 87, recalled the 1850s 60s as the golden era and claimed enslaved Black people were happier then. The event included prayers by Rev. Frank Y. Jackson and music by Maury Barrett and James Elmer Brown.
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Northen
D. H. Carr
59Th Virginia Infantry
Land of
Dixie
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Frank Y. Jackson
W. H. Thomas
West Virginia
David Thomas Lowman
Charles Franklin Wilson
Lowman
Wilson
Confederacy
Reese
Bowen
J. Harve Johnston
Maury Barrett
Annie Laurie
Joe
James Elmer Brown