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"Two Flags Over Tennessee" Coming to Collierville to Commemorate the Battle of Collierville
NEWS RELEASE from: Main Street Collierville
For immediate release.
For more information, contact Laura Todd or Linda Stamps at:
"Two Flags Over Tennessee" Coming to Collierville
to Commemorate the Battle of Collierville
On May 11 at 10 am, the Tennessee Civil War Preservation Association (TCWPA) will join Main Street Collierville in Collierville, Tennessee to sponsor a special program to build greater public awareness of our state’s rich Civil War heritage and the need for preserving Tennessee’s increasingly threatened hallowed ground.
The Tennessee Civil War Preservation Association's "Two Flags Over Tennessee: Reclaiming Our Civil War Heritage" is a two-year statewide program that began in February, 2006 at Fort Henry near Dover, Tennessee. TCWPA has flown two Civil War-era flags, a reproduction 1861 U.S. "Stars and Stripes" featuring 34 stars and the 11-star 1861 Confederate "First National" flag, known as the "Stars and Bars" over Union and Confederate battlefield positions at more than half of the 39 most significant battlefields across Tennessee. By December, 2007 the flags will have flown over as many as 50 battlefield sites in Tennessee. The journey is being documented in two large scrapbooks, collecting and preserving photographs, letters, and news articles from activities and events at each location.
TCWPA is a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, protecting, and interpreting Tennessee's Civil War battlefields for the benefit of present and future generations. "Two Flags Over Tennessee: Reclaiming our Civil War Heritage" recognizes Tennessee's most important battlefields and emphasizes the importance of finding ways to preserve this hallowed ground, where thousands of American soldiers, wearing both blue and gray, gave their lives for the causes in which they fervently believed.
On the behalf of TCWPA President and State Representative Steve McDaniel and Main Street Collierville, we invite you to this special event. Board members of TCWPA will be in attendance, along with members of the local Wigfall Grays Sons of Confederate Veterans, the media, and Town of Collierville officials.
This special event will be held at the corner of Main Street and North Rowlett in downtown Collierville next to the cannon display on May 11. The ceremony will begin at 10:00 a.m. For more information, please contact Laura Todd or Linda Stamps at Main Street Collierville, 853-1666.
"Two Flags Over Tennessee" Coming to Collierville to Commemorate the Battle of Collierville
NEWS RELEASE from: Main Street Collierville
For immediate release.
For more information, contact Laura Todd or Linda Stamps at:
| Main Street Collierville 125 N. Rowlett Collierville, Tennessee 38017 |
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"Two Flags Over Tennessee" Coming to Collierville
to Commemorate the Battle of Collierville
On May 11 at 10 am, the Tennessee Civil War Preservation Association (TCWPA) will join Main Street Collierville in Collierville, Tennessee to sponsor a special program to build greater public awareness of our state’s rich Civil War heritage and the need for preserving Tennessee’s increasingly threatened hallowed ground.
The Tennessee Civil War Preservation Association's "Two Flags Over Tennessee: Reclaiming Our Civil War Heritage" is a two-year statewide program that began in February, 2006 at Fort Henry near Dover, Tennessee. TCWPA has flown two Civil War-era flags, a reproduction 1861 U.S. "Stars and Stripes" featuring 34 stars and the 11-star 1861 Confederate "First National" flag, known as the "Stars and Bars" over Union and Confederate battlefield positions at more than half of the 39 most significant battlefields across Tennessee. By December, 2007 the flags will have flown over as many as 50 battlefield sites in Tennessee. The journey is being documented in two large scrapbooks, collecting and preserving photographs, letters, and news articles from activities and events at each location.
TCWPA is a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, protecting, and interpreting Tennessee's Civil War battlefields for the benefit of present and future generations. "Two Flags Over Tennessee: Reclaiming our Civil War Heritage" recognizes Tennessee's most important battlefields and emphasizes the importance of finding ways to preserve this hallowed ground, where thousands of American soldiers, wearing both blue and gray, gave their lives for the causes in which they fervently believed.
On the behalf of TCWPA President and State Representative Steve McDaniel and Main Street Collierville, we invite you to this special event. Board members of TCWPA will be in attendance, along with members of the local Wigfall Grays Sons of Confederate Veterans, the media, and Town of Collierville officials.
This special event will be held at the corner of Main Street and North Rowlett in downtown Collierville next to the cannon display on May 11. The ceremony will begin at 10:00 a.m. For more information, please contact Laura Todd or Linda Stamps at Main Street Collierville, 853-1666.