A run to remember the Confederacy

Published 12:00 am Monday, June 10, 2002

Elizabeth Wooten, 5, runs with a Confederate battle flag through Cedar Hill Cemetery Sunday during a Sons of Confederate Veterans program at Soldiers Rest. At right, SCV members fire one of three volleys while participants at the Confederate memorial service look on. The service concluded the weekend-long Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans annual conference. Bill Wooten, commander of John C. Pemberton Camp 1354 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said about 200 people from other camps around the state attended. Elizabeth is his daughter.(The Vicksburg Post/C. TODD SHERMAN)

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