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Originally Posted by FlyingScot
Or maybe it was the creation of the statues of Lee, Davis, and others that was erasing history? Citizens erected statues of traitors to the United States. Who does that? I keep looking for the Benedict Arnold statues, I can never find any 
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Wasn’t renewed citizenship extended to Lee and Davis after they surrendered? Part of Lincoln’s binding up wounds doctrine? Why wouldn’t statues be erected to great American generals? They didn’t try to overthrow the United States, they tried to secede from it.
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