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 traitors. They are dead traitors. Romanticizing those who betrayed their country to fight to preserve brutal chattel slavery is what keeps much of the south on the wrong side of history to this day.