Supremely ironic that the Confederate soldiers were all granted amnesty.  Every single one of them. Despite the fact the Civil War killed at least 2% of the total U.S. population at the time (6.5M in today's numbers), the Nation moved on. Today, we manufacture "faux outrage" over people who died in the 19th Century. The mere ghosts of these dead people are too horrifying to see or even contemplate.  

Can't wait to watch the Vietnam War Memorial on the National Mall, be bulldozed over. Likewise, the Korean War Memorial, WWI Memorial, the future Afghanistan and Iraq Memorials shelved, Spanish American War monuments destroyed, and on and on. So long as we decry all of the Caucasians involved as "morally inferior racist bigots" we'll maintain the moral standard for removing these historical monuments. Today, we're morally superior to everyone. Perhaps, we should be granted amnesty for our collective ignorance?