Confederate History Month has come under fire from those most in need of it
CHRISTINE BARRIn addition to being Women’s History Month, April is, for many Southern states, Confederate History Month.
On this, the sesquicentennial of the Late Unpleasantness, it is a commemoration which has come under fire from those most in need of it.
It confounds those who can only respond with “WE won the war — get over it” that all these years later that there remains a contingent of highly educated, highly motivated scholars, historians and everyday people who refuse to “get over” the trampling of the U.S. Constitution and the betrayal of the principles of the first American Revolution.
Try as they might, the enemies of the truth cannot stamp out the desire of the true sons and daughters of the Confederacy to make sure their ancestors’ sacrifices and motivation are not forgotten. Confederate history is important because it is American history; to try and sweep it under the rug is to ignore the constitutional issues which to this day underlie many of the political issues of today.
But there are those who are trying their absolute best to pretend that the story of the War Between the States can be told from one perspective, and one only. One of the main ways they are attempting to do this is by continuing their attacks on the flags of the Confederate States of America.
In Richmond, Va., the last capital of the CSA, is the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.. It was built on the grounds of the Robert E. Lee Camp 1, known popularly as the “Old Soldiers’ Home,” opened in 1884 and purchased and supported by the donations of Union and Confederate veterans.
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