Battle of Selma canceled after city requests $22,000 for police, fire, public works services

Reenactors won’t take the battlefield in April for the annual Battle of Selma due to the city of Selma’s request for the nonprofit group to pay more than $22,000 for city services.

News of the event’s cancellation broke Tuesday night when the Facebook event for the battle was canceled. The April 1865 Society confirmed the event’s cancellation in a press release Wednesday.

James Hammonds, president of the society that puts on the event, said the request came from the city at short notice, which gave the society little time to do anything other than cancel the reenactment.

“We only had three months to go when we got this bombshell,” Hammonds said Wednesday.

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