A 2015 New Orleans Times-Picayune article tells how New Orléans' Vieux Carré Commission recommended that four monuments be removed. Three of them honour
[...] Confederate generals P.G.T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy [...]
The other monument
[...] was erected in 1891 to honor the 16 members of the White League who died during an insurrection against the integrated Reconstructionist government in Louisiana, which was based in New Orleans at the time.
Various news outlets are reporting that the latter monument, an obelisk, has been dismantled at the behest of the city government, and that the others are also set to be dismantled.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:37PM
No. That makes him worse.
If he did not believe in the cause and yet still choose to serve as a general in the confederacy it means he actively enabled those who fought for slavery while knowing better himself.
He had the option of sitting it out. Instead he chose to be on the side he knew was wrong.