To put this all in perspective, one needs to recall that the South, which was in the minority at the time of the War was in an even more outnumbered position in the 1890s, when Americans, in general moved towards better feelings. It is patently absurd to suggest that the South, ruined and impoverished in this period, would have been able to propagandize sites run by the Federal Government.
This is just one more example of the viciously intolerant mindset of the Academic "Liberal." These people will not be happy until they erase every trace of traditional American culture. If we let them prosper in this endeavor, we deserve the "1984" version of the "Brave New World," they have in mind.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
They are overreaching and ensuring their own defeat. Any fairminded person, who might otherwise not have cared one bit about something that happened 150 years ago, will rebel against this sort of stuff.
I have walked through the battlefields of the Seven Days, Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor and Petersburg.
The only prominent Confederate memorials that I recall seeing were the Stonwall Jackson memorial at Manassas, the memorial to the Angel of Marie's Heights at Fredericksburg and the few modest Confederate memorials at Gettysburg. Everything else was either left uncommemorated or was a Union memorial.