The Maryland Confederate monument went up in 1884, the first time the Union allowed the building of Confederate monuments. Others erected before 1917 were, unsurprisingly given the condition of the southern states at the time, more modest. http://gettysburg.stonesentinels.com/confederate-monuments/confederate-unit-monuments/2nd-maryland/ …https://twitter.com/Sartor1836/status/1149372718753734656 …
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The surge in Confederate symbology between the mid-1950s & mid-1960s undoubtedly had a good deal to do with resistance to civil rights, but the narratives in this area are way oversimplified even as to that period. 1963 was, after all, the centennial of Gettysburg.
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