[stand watie]

ME TOO!

FAR too many origional items are in private hands, imVho.

virtually all of COL Mosby's possessions are in the collection of a woman in PA!

i wish she'd give them/loan them to the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond.

free dixie,sw

[flying Elvis]

Actually some items are better off in private hands. As museums become more PC they are selling off items they find controversial. The battleflag of the 16th Confederate cavalry was in a museum for many years until the board decided they no longer had any use for it and sold it to a private collector. Many of the battleflags in state possession have rotted from poor conservation or intentional neglect. The best thing is to loan items to a museum on the stipulation you can always take it back. In Rome, Georgia, last year, a local citizen removed his items due to political correctness. He had a Georgia state flag that governor Maddox gave him to fly over his firebase in Vietnam. The museum director took it off of display because she felt the Confederate emblem was too controversial. I feel some items are intentionally being allowed to decompose out of spite by activist curators.

[archy]

virtually all of COL Mosby's possessions are in the collection of a woman in PA!

i wish she'd give them/loan them to the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond.

I believe I'd want to see the government of the State of Virginia return to a condition more resembling that with which Col. Mosby would have been familiar with, before I'd trust any elected or appointed officials with any such valuable relics of our heritage.

Aside from the professional despoilers and wreckers, therte are entirely too many outright thieves and fools in such positions for their stewardship to be considered.

-archy-/-