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posted by on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the to-be-replaced-by-piles-of-beignets dept.

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: 1) by mayo2y on Thursday May 04 2017, @08:47PM

    by mayo2y (6520) on Thursday May 04 2017, @08:47PM (#504520)

    That, believe it or not, has been the topic of many a lecture, article and book. There were lots of places where cooler heads (or a different approach) could have averted war.

    Example: Andrew Jackson and the Nullification Issue in the 1830s. The South in 1860 did not believe the North had the backbone to win a war against them. They thought that the North would quickly tire of fighting and then they (the North) would be neighbors (similar to Canada is today).

    If they believed that the North was going to consider this an existential battle and would be willing to lose hundreds of thousands of men they may very well have not initiated the war,