A Confederate soldier from Putnam County will finally get a proper burial.Captain Philip Thurmond was buried in an unmarked grave nearly 2-hundred years ago. On Saturday, Civil [sic] war reenactors will give Thurmond a funeral with full military honors. He will be laid to rest beside the historic Hoge House in Winfield.
Once again, we see what is becoming a trend in the media of not capitalising the “c” in Confederate, which is a proper noun, as in “Confederate States of America.” This seems like a case of the media being willing to violate basic rules of the English language in order to get in a little jab against anything Confederate or Southern
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