“Although it was not nearly as large as many other Civil War battles, the Olustee one was significant because the South’s victory denied the North from establishing a government in Florida and cutting off supplies to the Confederate army.”
There you have it. Why would they want to put up a monument to an invading horde?
Some wounds don’t heal even after 150 years.
I don’t think the sons of the Union soldiers are planning to erect a mighty Yankee triumphant victory monument, just a dignified memorial to brave men who died fighting for what they thought right, the type of apolitical memorial that has been generally accepted at battlefields for both sides, by both sides, for well over a century.