He's making fun of me
by rutfilthygers (2019-01-20 19:07:58)

In reply to: That was the motivation of those who erected the monument?  posted by ufl

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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.

Actually no
by sec21atlanta  (2019-01-20 20:37:23)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

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.
Now I'm embarassed *
by ufl  (2019-01-20 19:10:17)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post