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Article: Confederacy museum considers move, name change.
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- The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2007
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Byline: Brian Hicks
Feb. 22--Once again, the Confederacy could be gone with the wind.
The Museum of the Confederacy -- a 117-year-old repository of Civil War artifacts and papers -- is considering a move out of Richmond, Va., and may even drop the word "Confederacy" from its title.
Some locals found this news from the capital of the Old South distressing, and deemed it an idea that would never even be considered in Charleston, where the war began.
"It's a disgrace to Richmond and the Museum of the Confederacy, and a disgrace to the memory of all those Confederate soldiers," said June Murray Wells, director of The Confederate Museum ...