Historic Crestview memorial rededicated, flag raised on family's property

Confederate Civil War re-enactors raise the Confederate flag at a new site for the William “Bill” Lundy Memorial on Saturday on private property. The Crestview city council voted to have the flag removed from the previous site which was on public property. Lundy relatives celebrated the new site on Saturday during a ceremony.

CRESTVIEW — Flags flew, a cannon thundered and many a man shed a tear Saturday as a group of staunch advocates of Southern heritage met to rededicate a memorial to Crestview’s own Uncle Bill Lundy.

The 90-minute ceremony began on a small triangle of city-owned land at East First Avenue and State Road 85, where a memorial to Lundy had been erected many years before. 

It ended about two miles north of Crestview, where the memorial stands now and, according to Lundy’s great-grandson Greg Lundy, will reside forevermore.

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