The building of these monuments was encouraged by President McKinley in the late 1800s and federal government policy at the time to help heal the wounds of the Civil War. The philosophy was that both sides’ veterans should be honored equally. There’s a Confederate Memorial in Arlington.
Doesn’t relate to Jim Crow.
Check out every New England town. It also will have its Civil War monument to correspond with the ones in Southern towns.
There’s a Confederate Memorial in Arlington.
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There’s also a section of Arlington National Cemetery that was commissioned specifically for the interment of Confederate soldiers.
“There’s a Confederate Memorial in Arlington.”
The last private owners of Arlington were Colonel and Mrs Robert E Lee.
Lee’s wife was the daughter of GW Parke Custis and they inherited the property upon his death in 1857. The only time that they had a house of their own.
Parke Custis was Martha Washington’s grandson. Martha and George Washington had raised Parke and his sister at Mount Vernon after the death of their father.