“None of the Tories in North Carolina and the East felt strongly enough about their beliefs and actions to erect any statues for their dead...”
I don’t know about NC, but here in Maryland a great many of the Tories were run out of the state after the War of Independance. So many went to Canada, that there are places in Canada where the accent is so similar to the Central Maryland speech that I have been mistaken for a Canadian.
Again, in Maryland after the Civil War, the Daughters of the Confederacy went around putting up statues in honor of the Maryland Confederate Soldiers everywhere, in spite of the fact that twice as many men of MD fought for the Union as for the South.
Why don’t the petionors try a di9fferent tack: campaighn for a statue to be set up to honor the Texans who died for the Union? There were many, and not all soldiers. Texas was one of the places where pro-Union sentiments could get you hanged before and just after Secession.
There already IS a monument. In Comfort, TX.
“True Der Union” Monument to the Germans who fought the Confederates at the Battle of the Nueces. And lost.