The history of Vicksburg and the battlefield there are very interesting...Nothing to be ashamed of in your family. No one who lost members of their families on either side has anything to apologize for.
We do know one thing for certain - none of the pukes parading on TV will EVER fight or die for their country! Like Patton said (paraphrasing) - let the other poor SOB die for it. These are totally useless and worthless human beings - if even human. Too bad we don’t have a draft! But why degrade the military any further than obozo already did?
Probably all of the people at the protests are really ignorant about the Civil War. When I homeschooled my boys we went through every Civil War battle. My boys may not be able to repeat back today every battle but they do know what it was all about and how it changed America. And none of them would be part of any protest to tear the monuments down.