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New Mexico

TNNurse

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2. To commemorate those who fled there after the war.

Reply to Warren_Pointe (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 28, 2018, 06:23 AM

Aug 2018

I learned about that recently. Many must have had a reason to hide. There are some weird bits of history that not many know about because so much else was happening. I have almost no knowledge of my confederate great-great- great (I think that is the right number) grandfather from Ga. I do know he never had enough money to own slaves, there was never any money or property in that family.

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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