You found a counter-example. I guess that means you win.

The statue you cite was built in 1993. Most confederate statues were dedicated between 1890 and 1930.

A coded attempt to tell the black people of Gettysburg that they were inferior? No other sentiment could be involved?

In tribute to an incident where a mortally wounded Confederate general, asking for a man who was a close family friend (and a Union general), who had himself been grievously wounded earlier in the battle. In any event, Armistead was a Free Mason and a Union officer, also a Mason, recognized Armistead.

I do not know of a Freemason who would want anything but Brotherly Love.

Both Armistead and Hancock were Freemasons.

..the one you mention and one to Armistead alone.

He found the least objectionable monument to a Confederate soldier (one which depicts a dying Confederate general being comforted by a Union soldier) and used it to counter my statement that these memorials were largely meant to reinforce white supremacy. The statue he references, which is not even strictly a Confederate memorial, was built in 1993 whereas the majority of the statues that have garnered controversy, like Silent Sam, where built between 1890 and 1930.

While I am a Freemason and have seen the Friend to Friend Monument, I was first thinking of the open scroll near the Angle with this inscription:

Brigadier General
Lewis A. Armistead, C.S.A.
fell here
July 3, 1863

It was erected in 1887.