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dalton99a

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3. That's fucking inane
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 08:49 AM
Sep 2017
Named for Benjamin Franklin, the town was hundreds of miles from the nearest Confederate state during the Civil War and there’s no evidence Lee ever visited or had ties to anyone here.

What’s more, Ohio was a major contributor to the Union effort, both in blood and treasure. The cemetery across the street from the site of the Lee monument is filled with the graves of men who fought Lee’s Confederate Army.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2017/08/23/how-confederate-monument-stirred-battle-union-state/593094001/

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