October 14, 2021 at 6:30 pm

Leland Free



Mr. Free is a 1979 Graduate of the University of North Alabama; BS in Public Administration and Urban Planning. He is a 15 year member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lawrence County Historical Commission, member of the Friends of the General Joe Wheeler Home Foundation since the mid-1990’s, shortly after the Home was acquired by the Alabama Historical Commission

He is the President of the Friends of the General Joe Wheeler Home Foundation since 2016; he has helped catalog some of the Wheeler collection for the AHC while the Home was being renovated.

A return speaker, he spoke to the TVCWRT on May 12, 2016, with the topic of “The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem”

In addition to speaking, Mr. Free will also bring for display, a few artifacts from Gen Wheeler’s political campaigns.