Posted on 01/09/2010 6:27:28 PM PST by HokieMom
ALBANY, N.Y. | They made it through Shiloh, Antietam and Gettysburg, but many of the Civil War battle flags sitting in the nation's state-owned collections might not survive the budget battles being waged in some statehouses.
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In New York, home to the nation's largest state-owned collection of Civil War battle flags, money for a preservation project is being cut from Gov. David A. Paterson's proposed budget. Indiana's funding for flag conservation has been returned to the state's general fund. Ohio hasn't provided government funding for its 400-plus Civil War battles flags in nearly a decade.
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New York began its battle flag preservation project a decade ago, with the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in charge of conserving nearly 2,000 banners. Conflicts from the War of 1812 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are represented, but the bulk — more than 800 — are Civil War flags.
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"There are many flags that were carried in battle heroically by soldiers who died in doing so," Mr. Morton said.
In the South, several states rely on donations from re-enactment groups and descendants of Confederate soldiers to fund flag preservation.
The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond is home to the largest Civil War battle flag collection in the South with more than 500 banners. John Coski, a historian at the museum, called flag preservation "a universal problem."
Edward McNatt Butler, former commander of the Tennessee division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, called the battle-scarred banners "flags of honor." The group has raised money to help the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville preserve six of its more than 60 Civil War flags, museum officials said.
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Welfare is more important to them.
Of course, they vote...
But can we first cut all of the hoopla for celebrating Gay/ Lesbian/ Transgendered folks and all the rest of the "hypenhated Americans?"
When does Designated Victim Group History Month ever face a budget cut?
I visited the Museum in the Sixties, very impressive.
BFL — don’t have my lists with me.
Yes, it is. One of my favorites.
I read somewhere they’re looking to build a new museum else where so they can display more exhibits.
Sell them to private collections, maybe?
So deeply glad that a private fundraising effort collected enough money to restore the Civil War flag that is most important to me and my family; it’s in the MOC and does need a little more work, but is basically safe.
The rest of the flags, however, are our history and our heritage. They should be preserved as well. Someone else on this thread remarked that we always seem to have money for stupid things like Gay and Lesbian celebrations. Hey, nobody throws a party to celebrate what I choose to do or not do with my genitals. I don’t see why people who decide to use their genitals on people with matching rather than complementary organs should have special moneys spent on them when our heritage is being defunded.
Yes, more private funding.
We don’t call it the Civil War down here in Mississippi.Well the young people do because that is what they call the War of Northern Aggression in the history books which are printed in the North.
My aunt in Virginia (now deceased) used to call it “That recent unpleasantness”. She was “D.A.R., D of C, Colonial Dames etc.” She was great!
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