I am pleased to see that the Gettysburg National Military Park has begun to interpret the Confederate monuments that line Seminary Ridge or Confederate Avenue.1 These monuments—especially the Virginia monument (1917)—have long dominated the landsape of “Pickett’s Charge” have helped to reinforce many of the Lost Cause tropes associated with the battle an…
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