Thanks for this insightful reminder;
After the Civil war, there was a deliberate effort to re-unite the country. Very quickly, all rebellious states were restored to full political status. The confederate soldiers were declared American veterans. They were given the right to declare their war heroes, American heroes. These things were done by people who lived through, and fought in the Civil War. The people who actually fought the war, were okay with this arrangement. Yes, yes, yes, slavery is wrong. Very wrong. America didn’t start it, but it was one of the first places to end it. (the abolition movement really caught fire in the nineteenth century, largely by white people).
Anyway, the United States healed its divisions, and the Confederate Monuments were a big part of that. These 21st Century morons who have NO CLUE of any of this are beyond reprehension”
Well stated; The period in American history known as reconstruction when blacks were given the vote (then restricted) gets the revisionist treatment or ignored because it doesn’t fit into the socialists agenda which calls for division. The reason those monuments in question are placed honoring men who fought for their cause after defeat did not continue on. But rather chose to accept and support the result to unuify the country.
After the Civil war, there was a deliberate effort to re-unite the country. Very quickly, all rebellious states were restored to full political status. The confederate soldiers were declared American veterans. They were given the right to declare their war heroes, American heroes. These things were done by people who lived through, and fought in the Civil War. The people who actually fought the war, were okay with this arrangement. Yes, yes, yes, slavery is wrong. Very wrong. America didn’t start it, but it was one of the first places to end it. (the abolition movement really caught fire in the nineteenth century, largely by white people). Anyway, the United States healed its divisions, and the Confederate Monuments were a big part of that. These 21st Century morons who have NO CLUE of any of this are beyond reprehension”
How soon we forget! I hadn't realized the deep nature behind all the Confederate monuments.
As I child, I was exposed, in some indirect and twice-removed way, to this cultural memory through old movies and cartoons on TV.
Just noted that it was during the Woodrow Wilson administration of 1913 that the great Union-Confederate reunion at Gettysburg, PA took place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913_Gettysburg_reunion
