Gov. Haley Barbour has declared April Confederate Heritage month in Mississippi

picayuneitem.com ^ | 04-03-04

[WKB]

As is customary across the South, Gov. Haley Barbour has declared April as "confederate Heritage Month" in Mississippi. In keeping with this important, public recognition of our valiant Confederate ancestors, the Margaret Reed Crosby Memorial Library, the Friends of the Library, and the Gainesville Volunteer (Sons of Confederate Veterans) are featuring a Confederate "Heritage of Honor" display in the library's foyer through April 12, 2004.

The public is cordially invited to view the display during regular library hours. In declaring April as Confederate Heritage Month, Gov. Barbour said: "Whereas April is the month in which the Confederate States began and ended a four-year struggle; and, whereas, it is important for all Americans to reflect upon our nation's past, to gain insight from our mistakes and successes, and to come to a full understanding that the lessons learned yesterday and today will carry us through tomorrow if we carefully and earnestly strive to understand and appreciate our heritage and our opportunities which lie before us; now, therefore, I, Haley Barbour, Governor of the State of Mississippi, hereby proclaim the month of April as Confederate Heritage Month in the State of Mississippi."

The Crosby Memorial Library display features some dozen unusual, full-size Confederate battleflags, military uniforms, weapons, antique quilts, portraits of Magnolia State Confederates, various Confederate artifacts, and numerous books, magazines, and newsletters detailing the valor of Mississippi's arms during that heroic struggle for Southern freedom. Importantly, the Crosby Memorial Library's Confederate Heritage display is both the largest and longest-running such display in Mississippi and, possibly, the South.

This display has garnered the Margaret Reed Crosby Memorial Library the prestigious "John L. Harris Heritage Preservation Award" from the Mississippi Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans. This award is named for a Black Confederate servant who, in later years as a Mississippi Representative, was instrumental in the construction of the impressive Monument to the Confederate Dead that stands on the grounds of the Old Capitol in Jackson.

Don't mis this rich, colorful, and enlightening display, produced by the Gainesville Volunteers, SCV (MS Division Camp of the Year for four of the last seven years). For more information about our Confederate "Heritage of Honor," please visit www.mississippiscv.org or email huffman@ametro.net.

[WKB]

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[varina davis]

A Southern BTT!

[cyborg]

BTTT

[onyx]

I, Haley Barbour, Governor of the State of Mississippi, hereby proclaim the month of April as

Confederate Heritage Month

in the State of Mississippi."

I love this man.
I may have to go see the display.
What a perfect time for me to be on MS soil.

You three must have some proper pics/graphics to post here.

[cyborg]

No doubt some folks in the smokey backrooms will be having a hissyfit:

This display has garnered the Margaret Reed Crosby Memorial Library the prestigious "John L. Harris Heritage Preservation Award" from the Mississippi Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans. This award is named for a Black Confederate servant who, in later years as a Mississippi Representative, was instrumental in the construction of the impressive Monument to the Confederate Dead that stands on the grounds of the Old Capitol in Jackson.

[cyborg]

I meant the backrooms of special interest groups that is, as opposed to FR's SBR :-)

[potlatch]

LOL, onyx, WKB would 'get me' if I posted one of my TEXAS gifs, but then, I usually come to the 'Missippy' threads to bother WKB!!

Meek, do you have a Confederate thing you can post for these people?

[smoothsailing]

...Here's to the sunny southland...

[onyx]

Exactly right.
NO Texas on this one.
Too important for MS.
I am so proud of Governor Haley.
He'll catch some flack for this,
but he's done the right thing.
Revisionist history is not only fiction,
but also an insult to the black and white
Confederate soldiers whose blood was spilled.

[potlatch]

I agree, I'm tired of people trying to change history!!

[smoothsailing]

[onyx]

Confederate Flag (1865)

On March 4, 1865 Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, approved an act revising the previous Confederate flag. A vertical red bar was added at the end of the white field opposite the union. Less than a month later, on April 9, 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered. Five days after Lee's surrender, Lincoln was assassinated, the first U. S. President to be killed in office.

An actual Confederate Flag of 1865 is shown below.

[Flyer]

April is Texas Confederate History and Heritage Month, too.

Won't hear much in the media about it, though.

[onyx]

Texas also?
Well how about that!
GOOD.

[potlatch]

Well, I see you did real well on posting Confederate Flags onyx!! Does Flyers reply mean 'Texas things' are a 'go'??

Just kidding. I'm off to bed, time change makes it an hour later than we think!!

[NewRomeTacitus]

The Battle of Nashville Monument honors the soldiers
of both the Union and the Confederacy. Holding
their colors are reenactors Bill Radcliffe of
Co. B, 54th Massachusetts Volunteers,and Michael
Agee of the Army of Tennessee.

And yes, we can all get along better by
respecting each others heritage and traditions
while rejecting hate-mongerers' agendas. Not that
I'd point any fingers.

[MeekOneGOP]

Meek, do you have a Confederate thing you can post for these people?

I don't know. You mean something like this ?? ...

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