Comment: So I'd anticipate there are also statues of loyalists (Tories in "American") in Richmond, to celebrate the defeated past?  No, I thought not.

This noble Southern resistance is another Big Lie of US history, just as Germany wallowed in the "stab in the back" to wish away their defeated field army after WWI. 

The confederate soldiers toiled and died so that blacks would not have the same rights they enjoyed. It was the plantation/slave owners who manipulated them to their pathetic deaths.