AdvertisementIn Wake Of Charlottesville, Federal Government Pays To Protect Confederate CemeteriesOctober 16, 2018Vanessa RomofacebookEmailA guard walks past a monument at North Alton Confederate Cemetery in Alton, Ill. The federal government has hired private security firms to guard several Confederate memorials across the U.S in the aftermath of clashes between white nationalists and counterprotesters last year. (AP)