So our local monument to the Lost Cause has been, well, lost.
Yeah, the irony goes down about as well as hardtack.
You know, that would be funny if it weren't so sad.
On Dec. 20, 2010, the Fort Sumter Fort Moultrie Historical Trust, the National Park Service and the city rectified a long-standing oversight and put up a historical marker at the site of Institute Hall.
That building — once Charleston's grandest meeting hall — is where delegates in 1860 signed the Ordinance of Secession, setting into motion Our Late Unpleasantness.
It was a valuable marker because a lot of folks never knew where this happened, seeing as how Institute Hall burned down a year after the ordinance was signed. Which wasn't a good sign for the Confederacy.
The marker told the story of secession and, on one side, said “The Union is Dissolved!” in homage to the famous edition of the Charleston Mercury.
It was a good-looking sign.
So it wasn't too surprising when, a couple of months ago, it was history.
A moving target
At first, officials figured this was a case of “round up the usual suspects.”
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