A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee stands in Market Street Park in Charlottesville Virginia. The city plans to remove it and a nearby statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson on July 10.
It never made sense to me. The leaders of the Confederate States of America were traitors to the United States. It was an unrecognized breakaway state (country) that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865, and that fought against the United States of America during the American Civil War. Despite that, members of the leadership of the Confederacy were honored with statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol.
On June 29th, the House of Representatives voted to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol building.
Are we sustaining Southerners hatred for Yankees by removing the statues?
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