Original sentence: In 2002, SCV dissidents formed a new organization: Save the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SSCV), comprised of members and former members of SCV.. SSCV alleged that scores of SCV members had left the organization in protest of the transformation, and that current SCV president Dennis Sweeney has purged the SCV’s ranks of additional moderates
Edited sentence: In 2002, a small number of SCV dissidents formed a new organization: Save the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SSCV), comprised of members and former members of SCV.. SSCV alleged that scores of SCV members had left the organization in protest of the transformation, and that current SCV president Dennis Sweeney has purged the SCV’s ranks of additional moderates