It is another when they fought for the revival of ideas that need to be relegated to history's trash bin, like slavery, and like racism. Are you saying it would be civilized for us to put up statues of Adolf Hitler? I do not believe you would. Well, the St. Andrew's cross of the "stars and bars" inspired a young Austrian art student to design his own icon, based on a stolen Buddhist symbol called a swastika. He openly praised the Confederacy, and made the case that Germany had to do the Jews what America had done to the Blacks and Indians.

Again, one thing to show respect to enemies in War when the dispute was over who should govern whom, but by trying to simplify war to that point, you omit that yes, the Confederacy was not just a failed revolution, but an attempt to revive evil ideas that are still taking lives today.