Though dozens of congressional Republicans protested the move, the Army says it will begin work in coming days
The Lost Cause movement, which recast rebel traitors as morally righteous warriors defending states’ rights and spread the false belief that slavery was benevolent, is evident in the memorial’s bronze panels. A weeping Black woman, described by cemetery historians as a stereotypical “mammy,” clutches the baby of a White officer, and a camp servant dutifully follows his enslaver toward battle.
They were not Americans. They seceded from the United States of America and did it so they could keep up the institution of slavery. And they died traitors. Fuck them and this memorial that was put up in 1914, long after anyone involved would have died of old age.