Dear Ms. Lunelle,
No matter the comments from the Southern haters like Kevin Levin, the dialog from President McKinley to the United Daughters of the Confederacy to have a place of dignity at Arlington National Cemetery for the Confederate dead and a Memorial to their lives was accomplished by the Honorable Moses Ezekiel in his depiction on the New South Cenotaph.
It is the most honorable depiction of the entire black race in this Cemetery where Yankees still refer to their Black troops as “Colored” and are still proud that the Black Yankee surgeon was only paid regular soldiers' pay.
Memories of Lincoln's "Total Warfare Policy" (burnings of property, murdering of defenseless old men, women, and children, rape of the same, looting, and robbery), and the evil modus operandi of so-called Reconstruction were still on the minds of Southern people, yet they did as their great hero General Robert E. Lee asked of them...."Let us return to the Union and heal the Nation". The former soldiers under his command did just that as their former adversaries looked on to include one who would ascend to the Presidency: "MCKINLEY".
President Taft, in his keynote address at the unveiling of the Confederate soldier's
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