It’s not always the victors writing the history, in this case, or the historical markers:
On this site occurred the Colfax Riot in which three white men and 150 negroes were slain. This event on April 13, 1873, marked the end of carpetbag misrule in the South. Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Louisiana Route 8) and 2nd Street (Louisiana Route 8) on Main Street.
Or maybe it was the victors writing, sadly enough.
At any rate, those Confederates were writing markers all over the place.
From the Gettysburg battlefield:
I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to detect where the above writer’s Confederate sympathies crept out.
5 comments
April 26, 2012 at 1:55 pm
rea
“our infantry”
April 26, 2012 at 2:01 pm
rea
The Colfax sign dates from 1950, whjich makes me feel a bit better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax_massacre
April 26, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Kelly
We’re not retreating, we’re advancing in a different direction (to Hagerstown in this instance).
April 27, 2012 at 8:51 am
John A. Healy
When they made the sign?
April 27, 2012 at 9:29 pm
TF Smith
Least it was “Union troops” and not “damnedyankeesdefendingPennsylvaniaagainstourrighttoenslavefreepeople…”
Historical memory is always illuminating.