[oincobx]

>>>Removal of the statue is just another way to re-write history.
When you forget the past,.. and you will repeat it. Ignoring history is the easiest way to forget how far you have come.

Is that why there aren’t statues to Sherman and Grant across the South? Was their omission an effort to rewrite history?

[Hugh the Scot]

Oh, Thank goodness the poets shirt is here.

[OIFVeteran]

Good point. Also where are all the statues and memorials to the United States Colored Troops that were raised from the slaves freed from the south during the war? 133,000 of the 178,950 black Americans who fought for America during the war were former slaves from the southern states. Why doesn’t South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, etc. have statues commentating their service?

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

oincobx :" Is that why there aren’t statues to Sherman and Grant across the South?
Was their omission an effort to rewrite history?"

Naw ! It has nothing to do with intentional re-write of history.
Why I know people from Alabama who refuse to acknowledge that there was a winner,
and are still passively fighting the Civil War.
They refer to it as the contention over 'States Rights'.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Also, there has been little forgiveness for Grant by many in the South, especially for the 'Trail of Tears'.