All Confederate markers gone from Interstate 10, New Mexico says

[TexasTowelie]

Officials of the state Department of Transportation now believe they have removed the last remaining memorials to Confederate President Jefferson Davis from Interstate 10 rest areas in New Mexico.

The New Mexican reported earlier this summer that the state quietly took down several markers from the mid-20th century that named a stretch of the highway through Southern New Mexico for the Virginia-born rebel leader.

But readers noted that Jefferson Davis Highway markers remained in place at rest areas in Gage and Anthony.

The state confirmed last week it had removed those markers, too.

Read more:
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/all-confederate-markers-gone-from-interstate-new-mexico-says/article_495eab1f-46d8-5e85-9e41-f37dfd4fceea.html


The New Mexico welcome center in Lordsburg once held a marker dubbing Interstate 10 the Jefferson Davis Highway. The state Department of Transportation says all such markers have been removed. Alyson Hurt via Flickr

[Warren_Pointe]

1. Confederate markers in New Mexico?

To commemorate their non-existence at the time.

[TNNurse]

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

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.

[brer cat]

3. I wondered about that also.

I used to travel often to NM and was surprised to see confederate flags there. Thanks for posting that tidbit.

[bluedigger]

4. The war came to New Mexico, too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_Campaign

[Nitram]

5. So New Mexico joins the Union as a state and then names a highway after the president of the

Confederate States? What is wrong with these people?

[moose65]

6. Wow

The United Daughters of the Confederacy strike again! Most of these stupid monuments are their fault. They went all over the country petitioning to put those things up, decades after the war ended. I think I even read somewhere that they were able to put up a monument in Wisconsin of all places!