It's my understanding that all these Confederate memorials are the result of a deal that was part of Reconstruction.
If the former CSA states were allowed to honor their heroes, the wounds sustained in losing the war would heal rather than fester.
We got to see that those wounds had healed barely a generation later when we invaded Cuba.
These memorials weren't paeans to slavery. They weren't markers to rally an eventual second try.
They were admission they'd lost the trial by combat, though they'd fought well, and they'd been beaten fairly.
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