Though dozens of congressional Republicans protested the move, the Army says it will begin work in coming days
The Lost Cause movement, which recast rebel traitors as morally righteous warriors defending states’ rights and spread the false belief that slavery was benevolent, is evident in the memorial’s bronze panels. A weeping Black woman, described by cemetery historians as a stereotypical “mammy,” clutches the baby of a White officer, and a camp servant dutifully follows his enslaver toward battle.
It was memorializing the 852 confederate soldiers buried at Arlington. Think of it like a reminder that it was brother vs brother. That being said I don’t agree with the memorial but definitely don’t agree with not, at least, memorializing the dead buried there in some fashion. No glamour or glitz. Just truth and respect for the dead.