"When a Monument Gets Its History Wrong" Topic
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| Tango01 | 07 Jan 2021 8:54 p.m. PST |
"The U.S. House of Representatives voted yesterday to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee from Antietam National Battlefield (see here for details). The statue, erected in 2003 on private property along Route 34 heading into Sharpsburg, was later acquired by the National Park Service when the park acquired the land the statue stood on. The statue has been controversial for years, and while the NPS has made an excellent effort at interpreting it, the fact that it stands in a spot Lee never visited makes the statue a challenge to interpret—and an obvious target. (As an aside: the House measure, approved on a voice vote, where the names and numbers of the vote aren't actually recorded, will go to the Senate for consideration. The session is already over-crammed with pressing business, so the lame-duck Senate is not likely to take up the measure. If it did, and the Senate passed the measure, it would then have to go to the desk of a lame-duck president for signature—all of which is unlikely. But this post isn't really about all that….)…"
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 08 Jan 2021 4:35 a.m. PST |
From the Emerging Civil War website |
| Oddball | 08 Jan 2021 6:49 a.m. PST |
Where will we put the statues for the next conflict? |
ScottWashburn  | 08 Jan 2021 6:53 a.m. PST |
Interesting article. Sometimes it is possible to get errors corrected. A friend of mine became convinced that one of the headstones at the National Cemetery in Gettysburg had the name spelled incorrectly and after presenting a lot of research got the name changed from "Slograt" to the proper "Scannon". :) |
| Wackmole9 | 08 Jan 2021 7:55 a.m. PST |
And So it beginning, Battlefields, then Cemeteries, and final everything that has anything to do with the event. |
| Tango01 | 08 Jan 2021 12:35 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. Amicalement
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| Bill N | 09 Jan 2021 12:01 p.m. PST |
Is this a case of the monument getting history wrong? Or is it a case of those seeking to explain the monument getting it wrong? |
| Tango01 | 09 Jan 2021 12:27 p.m. PST |
Good question!… (smile) Amicalement
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| Cleburne1863 | 09 Jan 2021 1:59 p.m. PST |
No, the monument is inaccurate and historically incorrect. In its location, its text, and its physical depiction. There is literally no way to explain it wrong. |
| Tango01 | 10 Jan 2021 3:50 p.m. PST |
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