So, how about just educating those who are irritated? History is not really supposed to be subject to interpretation. It is supposed to be a factual account of the past. If we revise it to satisfy every complaining party, how will we really know what happened and how we got to our current state?
Besides, there are plenty of people who admire Confederate officers, certainly among their descendants. It is just not right to punish those families just because someone feels bad about the history in which they did not live.
This action is just like ISIS, just more peaceful .... for the moment.
I am not meaning to pick a fight with you. However, IMO your understanding of history is incomplete. In the first place, there are billions of facts from the past. If you have those only, all you have is a timeline filled with disjointed items. These facts don’t speak for themselves. In order for there to be meaning to them, these are shifted, arranged and interpreted in the form of “history.” History is a human endeavor and composition. Since no one person can know all the facts or arrange or interpret them fully, there always will be new historical study. New information can also come to light in the present which those eariler had no access that changes our understanding of past events.
Secondly, the past does not exist isolated from the present. In the 21st century we not only know the Civil War era, but we also understand how those events lead into the period of Reconstruction; the southern reaction to that which in some cases expressed itself in Jim Crow laws and the KKK and in segregation. Then there was the reaction to those events. To interpret the Civil War as if none of these events followed from them will of necessity give a truncated or false picture. There are also things from the past, which a community may deem proper and wise in their time to honor, which are viewed differently to later generations.
Therefore, while I do sympathize with the feelings of the families of the Confederacy. The families of those who experienced slavery, as well as segregation and persecution by the KKK, are equally as valid in the context of what is to honored on public land. Again, that is why, in our present social problems, we cannot look at the burial of a Confederate General in a city park in the same way as his contemporaries viewed him.
Finally, ISIS’s destruction of ancient monuments is an determined effort to destroy the past so that it cannot ever be remembered or studied. The removal of General Forrest and his wife to a private burial site is in no way similar. Again, there is not attempt to desecrate the bodies or erase his service.