For an hour, the Confederate battle flag flew over the former
site of the Eight Flags Display on U.S. 90. Dressed in
Confederate gray, a black man named Anthony Hervey marched with
the banner clutched in his hands. His brother, Harry,
accompanied him, wearing jeans and a Robert E. Lee T-shirt.
Hervey's devotion to the flag began when he discovered that a
great-great-uncle, James Hervey, was a black American who fought
for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. James Hervey
served in the Army of Mississippi and was killed at the battle
of Shiloh. Further research helped Hervey discover records of at
least 100,000 black Confederates who fought in the war. "I am
marching for freedom," Hervey said. "The battle flag stands for
freedom and states' rights. The U.S. flag is the flag of
slavery. It flew over 100 years of slavery, and Native Americans
were annihilated under that flag." For his march, Hervey chose
the site where a Confederate flag once stood, one of eight
representing entities that have governed