[bert]

Soon to be destroyed Michigan monument at Shiloh A desecration of Southern ground

[DoodleDawg]

Soon to be destroyed Michigan monument at Shiloh A desecration of Southern ground

Then we had better bulldoze all those rebel monuments around Gettysburg.

[vetvetdoug]

Cloud Field, Shiloh, Tennessee. I know the area very well.

[Bull Snipe]

Not Southern ground. United States National Park. Ground belongs to the Federal Government. Destroying it would be a Federal felony.

[rockrr]

Thanks for the picture Bert. Who do you suppose is going to destroy it?

[robowombat]

A real question. Can anyone tell me how the location for state monuments at National Battlefield Parks were determined. Unit markers and monuments are related to a significant event in the battle involving the unit, location at a important time, furthest forward point for a unit, or other significant reason. State monuments seem to not follow any pattern. The truly giant Pennsylvania monument at Gettysburg seems to be sited on the most prominent and highest point. The really big Illinois monument at Vicksburg seems to just be located in a good viewing position.

[wardaddy]

Union monuments are on avenge 60-75% of monuments at most battlefield sites I’ve seen

Especially Vicksburg which apparently is a place where the federal govt and individual northern states decided to really throw some money around with Triumph level monuments....I’d wager the Alabama white marble alone is 20 million on some of them

It’s really amazing.....and I grew up close to there

I’ve never been to Gettysburg so I don’t know if it has them but Vicksburg has the biggest I’ve seen

One irony

This forum is replete with south haters who for whatever reason ally with progressives over this monument removal and always have despite the fact southern stuff is just easy fruit ...their progressive partners in crime won’t stop there

But most folks don’t know that guess who paid for much of the southern monument recognition back then late 1800s to early 1900s when it was all still fresh and many veterans still alive

The federal government paid for much of it, that’s who.

Now let’s ask ourselves who knew the war and aftermath better....the magnanimous victors a generation or two after the war including those who fought in it

Or neoconservatives and progressives today who think demonizing the south’s past (and present to be truthful) makes them less racist themselves or helps destroy a primary foe ...the white southerner....respectively .