Many Americans in earlier times, viewed statues and other monuments as not necessarily well-suited with to a republic and democracy. In the case of the Civil War, monuments began going up throughout ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War ... Richmond’s Confederate monuments years earlier.

Many in that group argue the monuments represent Southern heritage. Historians emphasize when Civil War monuments were actually built, and what their purpose was. More from Politics Historian ...