I do have exactly one story about how a monument actually taught me something about history and it's the story of how I saw the marker in the park in Frederick, MD - which I saw by chance visiting a friend for a barbecue - of how Jubal Early robbed the town during the Civil War
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Like the privateers vs pirates distinction only, you know, without the ship or the water Just straight up breaking into people's houses
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Look no further than Quantrill's Raiders (where Frank and Jesse James got their start), as an example of the atrocities committed. (Note that Jesse got made into a Robin Hood figure in pop culture, helped by his fellow confederates in power, rather than the killer he was).
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They burned my hometown!
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Looting 'wealth' in the form of hardworking citizens, even. When the Confederate traitors invaded Pennsylvania, they rounded up Black people and sold them into slavery.
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I hope they got to return home after the war. - Show replies
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