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Originally Posted by Buick6
You would have to research the individual erected monument or statue to know why it is there. I do a lot of history and genealogy research and am often surprised how easy some things are to find information on.
Your'e overlooking an important fact. In those days, you held the state you were from in higher regard than the US Government. Your state came first. General Lee struggled with this himself. These officers resigned their US commissions (and therefore their oaths) and joined the confederate army. You may view them as a traitor. But they were heroes in their own day.
You don't have to honor anyone. Just don't tell others who to honor a hundred years after those before us found worthy. You cannot erase history.
You are still trying to view people in history by what we know or feel generations later.
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its not my opinion they are traitors it is matter of fact and military law. They broke the oath of office.
This accusation of us trying to erase history, to be blunt is bull****. There are not statues through out Germany and Austria of the **** leaders and they know their history quite well. There are no statues in France of the people who were in the Vichy government and they know their history.