|
Mississippi License Plates To Honor General Forrest et al.
The Mississippi Division of The Sons of Confederate Veterans wants to sponsor a series of four, state-issued license plates to mark the 150th anniversary of the War of Northern Aggression.The Mississippi SCV has had a state-issued specialty license plate since 2003 to raise money for restoration of Civil War-era flags. From 2003 through 2010, the license plate design featured a small Confederate battle flag. The Department of Revenue allowed the group to revise the license plate this year for the first of the Civil War sesquicentennial designs. The 2011 plate, now on sale, depicts the Beauvoir mansion in Biloxi, Miss., the final home of Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president. The SCV wants license plates to feature Civil War battles that took place in Mississippi. It proposes a Battle of Corinth design for 2012 and Siege of Vicksburg design for 2013. Stewart said the 2015 plate would be a tribute to Confederate veterans. A license plate honoring General Nathan Bedford Forrest is slated for 2014. Forrest, a Tennessee native, is revered by some as a military genius and reviled by others for leading the 1864 massacre of black Union troops at Fort Pillow, Tenn. Forrest was later a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard in Tennessee during the northern military occupation of the South after the war, leading a resistance movement against his former foes and their corrupt agents. Almost needless to say, the usual suspects are having a hissy fit with the whole idea. Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-02-10 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=315780 |