What Happened to Confederate Leaders After the Civil War

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PGT Beureguard campaigned for civil rights, including right to vote for blacks after returning to LA

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That doesn’t matter. We don’t care about history. He lived during the civil war so his statue had to come down.

He also ran the campaign of the first black candidate for state office. Then he helped establish the public school system, a state lottery, and the street car system.

PGT Beauregard was exactly what we should aspire to be, not someone that should be virtually erased from history.

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PGT Beureguard campaigned for civil rights, including right to vote for blacks after returning to LA

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He also had close ties with the Louisiana Lottery Company, which drove the corrupt Bourbon political machine in New Orleans.

He command the bombardment of Fort Sumter, so he won't ever get any forgiveness from most.

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PGT Beureguard campaigned for civil rights, including right to vote for blacks after returning to LA

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He was also likely, at least in part, black.

Amache national historic site formally established as America's newest national park

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“As a nation, we must face the wrongs of our past in order to build a more just and equitable future. The Interior Department has the tremendous honor of stewarding America’s public lands and natural and cultural resources to tell a complete and honest story of our nation’s history,” said Secretary Haaland, who visited the Amache site in February 2022. “Today’s establishment of the Amache National Historic Site will help preserve and honor this important and painful chapter in our nation’s story for future generations.”

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Internment camps are an important part of American history that needed to be preserved. Statues must not qualify.

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Internment camps are an important part of American history that needed to be preserved. Statues must not qualify.

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If you can’t distinguish the difference of an actual internment camp site and statues put up by the UDC and SCV camps in the late 19th and early 20th centuries then I can’t help you.
However, when the press release for said new park starts off with “Just and Equitable.” then I lose interest immediately. Those are con-words for taking money and handing it to cons.

Totally off topic but for decades Longstreet was the fall guy for Gettysburg because Lee was untouchable. But the reality is that Lee fell under the timeless trap of believing his accomplished troops could do anything and he eschewed Longstreet’s advice at Gettysburg and then Longstreet had to try to make chicken salad out of the chicken shite plan Lee handed him.

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Totally off topic but for decades Longstreet was the fall guy for Gettysburg because Lee was untouchable. But the reality is that Lee fell under the timeless trap of believing his accomplished troops could do anything and he eschewed Longstreet’s advice at Gettysburg and then Longstreet had to try to make chicken salad out of the chicken shite plan Lee handed him.

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Exactly! Lee was canonized and beyond criticism for many. But had he absolutely erred in eschewing Longstreet's advice at Gettysburg.

So did General Nathan Bedford Forrest. All American kids are taught, if they are taught anything at all, is that he was some racist black killer.