Hello List Members, The Confederate War Museum in New Orleans is one of the largest in existence and has invaluable records on the people who served in the War Between The States. It has invaluable lists of names of people who served on both sides of the conflict which are available to all who are doing research on their family history. I have found a lot of good info on my family there. Yet, it's very existence is totally and politcally incorrect in many circles who wish people to be ignorant of their past. Among the many memorabilia are rare photos of blacks who fought for the South as Free men and lists of names of Indians who fought for the South during the war even though many Indians as we are well aware were enslaved. There is also a crown of thorns which was personally crafted by a pope, I think it was Pius IX or Pius X, and sent to Jefferson Davis after the war, not in support of slavery, mind you, because the popes had consistently written against slavery since the early 1400's, but in appreciation of things which Jefferson Davis had done for some of the religious nuns who worked in the old South as I remember it from the display. There are many things like that that are simply priceless but which some find politically incorrect in our day and age and in need of censorship from the masses who might learn something that they never knew before. The collection will fetch a great fortune on the auction block. It has been displayed at the same site since the early 1930's through the genorsity of a man who donated the building it is in to the Museum. A couple of years ago, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in cahoots with the University of New Orleans, surreptitiously produced a previously unknown title to the building and has since tried to close the Museum because they want the building and they don't want the museum next to their art. The Museum has fought this theft of their property ever since by producing the original bequeathment of the building to them by its original owner. But, in a confirmation of what Indeeunm had to say in an email to the Choctaw-Southeast list on August 8, a local judge ruled that the Ogden Museum had title to the building and can close the Museum which they did. The Confederat Museum, of course, is appealing this appalling act of judicial tyranny and political correctness and I pray that they prevail. I have no stock in the Confederate Museum. I only know what it has in it and that it is priceless and that the people who run it are wonderful people who work hard to maintain the collection and help all who are interested in learning more about this part of American history. What the local judge, C. Hunter King, did in cahoots with his accomplices in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the University of New Orleans is totalitarianism. It is PC at its ultimate worst. Oh a solution for the Confederate Museum has been suddenly offered to the Museum, that it give all of its priceless collection to the Louisiana State Museum for storage in an hermetically sealed and dust free room where almost no one will ever see it again. Maybe one or two items from its priceless collection will be displayed at the Cabildo or elswhere but the rest will be lost to history and the public's consciousness. Right across the street from the Confederate War Museum is the D-Day Museum. At some point in time the Ogden politburo can decide that any museum which recounts our nation's struggle to win WWII is not in keeping with their vision of who should be in the neighborhood and engineer with the help of a judicial accomplice the closure of the D-Day Museum where my cousin' jacket is on display from his mission with Doolittle over Tokyo. In the email about Mississippi Choctaws, Indeeunme said much that was very true about what the Chiefs of the Choctaw Nation had to face with the coming of the American civilization when they signed the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. I think that it is noteworthy that the Choctaw and the French and the Spanish more or less managed to live in close proximity to each other without the Choctaw losing everything but with the coming of the American nation, they were forced to relocate much as the Confederate War Museum is being treated in a blatant act of theft and censorship which is true goal of the Ogden/University of New Orleans politburo. If the memorabilia of the War Museum is locked away that censors its info from ordinary people doesn't it? And it can be done to the Confederate War Museum it can be done with anything that it deemed politically incorrect by people like those who run the Ogden Museum. What is to stop them from doing something similar to the Choctaws if the Choctaw erected a museum on land they wanted? Nothing. Not even a treaty. As I recall the Indian memorabilia at the Confederate War Museum provides an invaluable history lesson for all of our peoples and locking these Indian artifacts away also denies Indians their rights as well to know their history during this time of great suffering for our nation? This is a crime being perpertrated on people by the Ogden Museum and the University of New Orleans for no good reason. I hope and pray that it will not prevail. John Craven New Orleans