Confederate Memorials

Some say 100,000 people were in the Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago on May 30, 1895. Many participated in the parade on Michigan Avenue before gathering in the cemetery. There were 15 carriages, a platoon of Chicago city police, and a detachment of National Guard cavalry. …

I am a member of the Defend Arlington committee which has one goal: save the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. Through my association I have met some great people and obtained insight into organizations I had only heard about. …

Let’s say it was reasonable to question whether Americans who took up the Confederate cause should be memorialized in and by our military institutions. Accept that a commission formed to investigate the question can do no harm. An objective view of the pros and cons might be interesting and even…

In part one I established that the Confederate Memorial page of the Arlington National Cemetery (ANC) website was rewritten early in 2020 and the new page was published on May 10, 2020. This new page is consistent with the current politics and language associated with the Confederacy. The date of…

My dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in December of 2019. Much has changed in those four years since his funeral, including the Confederate Memorial webpage on the Arlington National Cemetery website. The internet archive of the page from December 17, 2019 contains a citation: Peters, James Edward. Arlington…

History is on the side of preserving the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. I am not an historian, but I don’t have to be to know this is true. I must only look at the case for destruction and the case for preservation. The case for destruction is that…

The Naming Commission says that Moses Ezekiel’s monument represents the “Lost Cause, which romanticized the pre-Civil War South and denied the horrors of slavery…” They say it “offers a nostalgic, mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery” so the monument should be destroyed. It is what…

You would be forgiven for thinking that the effort to stop the Naming Commission recommendations from being implemented is lost. It may be for some of the recommendations, but not for all of them. …

The Department of the Interior employee in his green uniform asked if he could help us with anything as we exited one of the slave quarters at Arlington House. “Well now that you ask, which way is the Confederate Memorial?” He gave me the impression that he thought the decision…