This is why you don’t give an inch. Certain faculty members and students at Ole Miss finally got their way with the removal of the Confederate monument at the University. It was agreed that the statue would be moved to the Confederate cemetery hidden away at the edge of the campus behind the basketball arena. Ole Miss served as a hospital at times during the war and this cemetery contains the remains of a number of soldiers, many wounded at Shiloh. Most are unknown.
Well, the school released renderings of what the cemetery will look like with the statue and other upgrades including grave markers and at monument to Mississippi USCT vets as well. The usual suspects are furious, now saying it glorifies the Confederacy and faculty is saying we really didn’t mean what we said about moving the monument to the cemetery. I thought dialog was supposed to be the answer. Guess not.
Well, the school released renderings of what the cemetery will look like with the statue and other upgrades including grave markers and at monument to Mississippi USCT vets as well. The usual suspects are furious, now saying it glorifies the Confederacy and faculty is saying we really didn’t mean what we said about moving the monument to the cemetery. I thought dialog was supposed to be the answer. Guess not.
‘Glorified shrine of the Confederacy’: UM students, faculty fume over unofficial plans to renovate Confederate cemetery
Plans to move the Confederate monument at University of Mississippi were overshadowed by leaked plans to renovate the Confederate cemetery on campus.
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