Loki wrote:
The history behind the statues isn't very important to Liberals, either. Several of the Southern generals depicted opposed slavery; unlike Ulysses Grant, whose wife was a slave owner until ratification of the 13th Amendment forced her to free her own, or Sherman, whose march through Georgia was a nightmare of murder, theft and rapine. Sherman favored the continuation of slavery. During this march, his men committed countless atrocities against the blacks they were ostensibly freeing.