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This article asks some hard questions and raises some issues that are well-worth discussing and talking about.

The ongoing controversies that surround all Confederate monuments these days cloud another fundamental question specific to the Lee statue: what do you do about a monument that’s factually wrong?

As it happened, I pondered this same question this week when I visited the site of the upper pontoon crossing in Fredericksburg.
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The Upper Pontoon Crossing at Fredericksburg, where the UDC monument hunkers under boxwood trees

On December 11, 1862—158 years ago today—the Army of the Potomac bridged the river under fire and fought their way into the city, establishing a presence in Fredericksburg and setting the stage for a major battle on December 13. A bolder with a handsome bas relief plaque commemorates the crossing of the 7th Michigan as part of the initial Federal force. Nearby, a squat granite marker placed by the United Daughter of the Confederacy also commemorates the event.

But the U.D.C. monument gets the story wrong.
 
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