Doctor Steuss wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 8:47 pm
Because the Union wasn't some despotic authoritarian regime that refused to allow citizens, municipalities, and states the right to build plaques and statues?
There's a pretty wide divide between being against people owning human beings as chattel, and being against people building statues.
Out of curiosity, I looked at the history of some of the earliest monuments. One of the interesting things about them is that none of them appear to be monuments to the Confederacy, or edifices to the generals or leaders of the Confederacy. They are for the soldiers from those specific locations who died. They are literal memorials to the dead.
The very first one, erected in 1869, is actually a grave marker as much as a monument. It’s located in a cemetery in TN, and is for unknown Confederate dead. There are 29 unidentified Confederate soldiers buried there.
The next one was dedicated in 1871, but the cornerstone for it was laid in 1866. It’s specifically for the soldiers from that county in Mississippi it was built in, who died in the war. It has the names of all 279 Confederate soldiers from Amite County who died.
Next was what appears to be Florida’s first monument. It’s for the dead from Walton County, and has the names of all of the fallen soldiers from that county engraved on it.
So, to give a less flippant a**hole answer: I'd guess the reason the “Union” didn’t pay any mind to these monuments is because they were literal memorials to fallen soldiers, and not edifices to the Confederacy, its leaders, and its ideals.
