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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Using a slave to aid a rebellion was conceived of as analogous to using a ship to conduct piracy: the ship was simply forfeit. Even if the owner was innocent and the ship was stolen! (This is the origin of asset forfeiture)
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Yeah unlike the rough and ready "self-funding" nature of the Confederates' partisans the Union tried to keep things relatively aboveboard They couldn't just take stuff from slaveowners, it had to be auctioned off and the proceeds went to the Treasury
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