“What happens if you buy a new home and find yourself on the fringes of the culture wars?
That's where Randy Beresford of West Virginia recently found himself after buying a large old home on a rural road in Wilson.
It came with an unusual extra – the burial site of a Confederate war horse captured in the November 1863 Battle of Chattanooga by a Union soldier from Wilson. The horse, named "Billy Sherman," lived nearly a quarter-century after the Civil War and became a local celebrity.
In 1973, the Wilson Historical Society installed a plaque commemorating the animal, mounting it on a stone on private property beside the road. At some point later, three small, wooden flags were added: the American flag, the Tennessee state flag and the Confederate flag.”
https://buffalonews.com/2018/07/05/monument-to-civil-war-horse-sparks-controversy-in-wilson/