A few hundred armed militia group members, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Ku Klux Klaners, supporters of President
Donald Trump, and other self-described patriots descended upon the Gettysburg battlefield Saturday, some carrying semi-automatic rifles, to defend the site’s Confederate symbols from phantom activists who never showed up. Saturday’s rally in Gettysburg showed pro-Confederate activists increasingly agitated, armed, and itching for a fight even when there is no one to clash with them although they did draw first blood when one member shot himself in the leg. They sang the National Anthem, pledged allegiance to the flag and then said in unison, "I salute the Confederate flag with affection, reverence and undying devotion to the cause for which it stands."
Billy Snuffer, who identified himself as the Imperial Wizard for the Rebel Brigade of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, said,
"The Confederate battle flag has nothing to do with slavery, this is our history, this is our heritage.”
He said this while standing in the same area where 154 years ago the Confederate Army marched into town abducting free black Americans and sending them to the South to be sold into slavery.
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