Posted on 12/18/2023 2:28:02 PM PST by yesthatjallen
“Democrats don’t want people to remember they are the ones that fought and died to protect slavery.”
I thought both sides in the war were fighting to protect and defend pro-slavery constitutions.
It is well known that the sculptor, Moses Jacob Ezekiel, was Jewish.
I can’t help but wonder - with antisemitism sweeping hot through the democrat party, military, and elites in general - how much that factored into the desire to eradicate the artwork from easy public viewing.
It seems the attacks on Confederate history have been coordinated by powerful forces. This at a time when important university presidents find it hard to disagree with calls for genocide against Jews. There are few coincidences.
Especially in this case. Arlington Cemetery was donated by the family of Robert E. Lee as an act of reconciliation after the Civil War.
“Especially in this case. Arlington Cemetery was donated by the family of Robert E. Lee as an act of reconciliation after the Civil War.”
Really not the case. The Lee family sued in Federal Court for the seizure of the property. In the 1880s. the Supreme Court said the seizure of the Lee Estate was illegal. They ordered the Government to return the property to the Lee heirs. The property was deed to the Lee heirs. The heirs then sold the property to the Government for $150,000 dollars.
There is still a large section of Confederate graves at Gettysburg...And marked as such....
I object to moving it. but if they do move it to New Market, Virginia, that’s where my mothers family was from. 3 or 4 great grand Paps served Virginia.Glad they all survived.
Larry
There were no winners in the American civil war
“There is still a large section of Confederate graves at Gettysburg...And marked as such....”
I thin you might be thinking of a different battlefield. At Gettysburg there are no marked Confederate graves remaining. Over 3000 Confederate dead were removed in the summer of 1872 and more before and after that.
Crews were pretty diligent in removing all the Confederate dead that could be located from the battlefield and field hospital sites and shipping them to southern cemeteries for reinternment. There are undoubtedly some Confederate still buried on the field in unmarked graves. The last human remains found were at the Railroad Cut on the 1st days battlefield. These remains were found in 1996 but it could not be determined if they were Union or Confederate and they were interred in the National cemetery as “Unknown Civil War Remains”.
There are at least two Confederates buried in the National cemetery but they were misidentified as Federal soldiers.
Civil War Era National Cemeteries - Gettysburg
National Park Service (.gov)
https://www.nps.gov › gettysburg_national_cemetery
A few Confederates do remain interred at Gettysburg National Cemetery.
It’s been so long since I was there, but I think I remember a small area (not in the National Cemetery, but close by) that had a sign stating Confederate graves...
Like I said, it’s been a long time so I’m probably mistaken...
Two Confederates are buried in the National Cemetery and both were mistakenly identified as Union dead when they were interred.
The overseer of the National cemetery was adamant that no Confederates would be buried on the grounds which were reserved for United States soldiers only.
It was later found out that there were more Confederate dead buried at Arlington by mistake, and they were later reburied in a special section about the time this monument was commissioned, the monument becoming the centerpiece of the Confederate section.
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