Alabama collects tax originally for Confederate veterans

Jay Reeves has the story, which is a pretty interesting one.  The tax is used now, among other purposes, to maintain Confederate Memorial Park.  Reminds me of some other examples of reparations for the era of Civil War I have seen of late.

Comments

[Daniel S. Goldberg]

Hi Al,

Thanks much for posting about this. Thanks to you, I am entirely immersed in research on early pensions acts in our fair state, so learning that the tax supporting such a pension in Alabama still continues is absolutely fascinating.

What's the cliche -- the Civil War is still going on in the South?

[Alfred Brophy]

Daniel--looking forward to hearing about what you're finding regarding pensions. I'm not sure I deserve credit for that, though!