No. For better or for worse, these are monuments to the past. If times change and their presence causes civil unrest, they should go into museums. If we are going to tear down monuments, then why stop with southern generals? We should tear down every Spanish mission on the West Coast, monuments to slavery, torture and forced religious indoctrination. We should tear down every statue of every military hero on the west side of the Mississippi—those who took part in the annihilation and subjugation of the aboriginal tribes. Tear up the railroad tracks through the Sierras, a monument to slave labor and brutality toward Asia immigrants. .