There is a dramatic Confederate monument at Shiloh, and the Virginia and North Carolina monuments at Gettysburg are very good examples, but rather more modern than the Union monuments, which were put up during the Gilded Age and reflect French and Roman values. An excellent example of ornateness in a monument is the Illinois state monument at Vicksburg, which is a scaled-down reproduction of the Pantheon. I've been inside it, and it's impressive. It also occupies a choice location in the Union lines and can be seen from a number of vantage points along the lines.
I was very disppointed by the Texas monument at Gettysburg, which was a simple granite slab put up during the heyday of the WPA. I had an idea to suggest slabbing the existing monument down the middle, separating the front from the back, recarving the inscription in a more classical style (it's done in a muted Art Deco style, IIRC), and setting it into a big dado supporting a tall, classical column done in the same salmon-pink Llano Uplift granite as the present monument, with a capital of a certain blindingly-white sucrosic dolomite I know about from Oklahoma, topped by a statue of a Texas Brigade soldier.
But Dubya couldn't take down traces of the Confederacy in Texas fast enough. One letter -- one letter -- from the head of the Texas NAACP, and the plaques he was complaining about disappeared overnight. Literally in the middle of the night. In the middle of the night. God, that is ignominious. Crawling on his belly like a reptile, for a local chapterhouse of some race-baiting NGO.
the plaques were removed by the Chief Justice of the TXSC, a DIMocRAT who was/is a GORON!
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