Unfortunately the most important statue is already under lock and key.
In any event, I have to tip my hat to UT for never having been crazy enough to put up a statue of Louis Wigfall. That's to their credit.
Hyperbole aside, how can you claim that Lincoln violated the Constitution on one hand with his suspension of habeas corpus and then complain that he didn't violate the Constitution on the other by arbitrarily ending slavery in the states not engaged in rebellion? Maybe you should read up a bit on both?
General Sherman's Union troops were ordered to burn a wide swath across Georgia. They burned everything, including churches, and ransacked houses as common thieves and pillagers. This has been documented, even by southern children of the time, who witnessed and wrote down the criminal acts of Union soldiers.
Then no doubt you can provide the documentation? Sheman's men burned rail lines, transportation facilities, economic targets like cotton gins, municiple buildings, and other legitimate military target. The claims that they burned everything in sight is a southron myth.
Blacks in my rural community near Nashville were FORCED to build a railroad bridge across the Harpeth River (a mile from my house) by the Union Army who was supposedly busy freeing those blacks from slavery.
And the alternative was what? Remain in the fields FORCED to toil away for their master? No hypocrisy in that claim, is there?
By the way, Tennessee was not covered by the Emancipation Proclamation so legally they couldn't be freeing anyone.
If you knew the true history of the Civil War...
One might say the same about you.
Should UT remove them or not?
Unfortunately the most important statue is already under lock and key.
In any event, I have to tip my hat to UT for never having been crazy enough to put up a statue of Louis Wigfall. That's to their credit.