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New Mexico

moose65

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6. Wow

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Aug 28, 2018, 07:45 AM

Aug 2018

The United Daughters of the Confederacy strike again! Most of these stupid monuments are their fault. They went all over the country petitioning to put those things up, decades after the war ended. I think I even read somewhere that they were able to put up a monument in Wisconsin of all places!

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All Confederate markers gone from Interstate 10, New Mexico says [View all] TexasTowelie Aug 2018 OP

Confederate markers in New Mexico? Warren_Pointe Aug 2018 #1

To commemorate those who fled there after the war. TNNurse Aug 2018 #2

I wondered about that also. brer cat Aug 2018 #3

The war came to New Mexico, too. bluedigger Aug 2018 #4

So New Mexico joins the Union as a state and then names a highway after the president of the Nitram Aug 2018 #5

Wow moose65 Aug 2018 #6