A former Georgia State Trooper rode along with H.K. Edgerton to make sure no one bothered him on his walk up to Hogansville from LaGrange along Hwy 29 or Hogansville Rd.
He was walking up Hogansville Road, I pulled up to him and we talked for a few. I offered him a ride, but he refused saying he was carrying the colors and marching for the cause. So I made sure I stayed on Hogansville road and he got safely to his resting point in Hogansville.
Mr. Edgerton, born in 1948 in North Carolina, has been a voice for those who wish to celebrate their Southern Heritage. He was once the head of the NAACP Chapter in his hometown in North Carolina and later realized that what the people needed to understand was the truth. He became a member of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans because one of his ancestors was in the war. He has traveled the nation with the battle flag and has given numerous talks on the heritage that has been attacked by those who don't know better. As he has said many times that flag does not belong to those pointed head people in the white robes. It belongs to those poor dirt farmers who left their homes to try and protect them. He has also remarked that many of the people who call themselves "civil rights workers" are no more than radicals who use the flag of the black panther movement as their symbol. Mr. Edgerton is so tired of the society today wanting to rewrite the history books to suit what is politically correct for them. That makes them no better than jackals trying to rape history and trying to make it all for nothing. He said that the flag he totes never flew over a slave ship, only the United States flag and the flags of the European nations bringing the slaves to the West Indies to work the plantations across the islands, Central and South America and into North America. Mr. Edgerton has been a voice for what is lacking in the South and that is guts to be able to stand for what you believe. And he walked the lonely road in Georgia with a retired gentleman to make sure no one bothered him.
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This gentleman knows more about the history of the war than many so called experts. If you have never spoken with him or listened to one of his speeches you are missing a rare treat.
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