Why do we have all these monuments throughout the U.S.?
No it has nothing to do with Jim Crow.
It comes from a speech a (Northerner) president, McKinley, made in a speech in Atlanta Georgia in I believe 1898. McKinley said it was time to bury the hatchet on the Civil War and that the dead and veterans of both sides needed to be honored.
That triggered a huge public response and monuments to the Civil War veterans, both North and South, began to be constructed throughout the country.
People forget there is even a monument to the Confederate war dead at Arlington.
I believe that a lot of people; especially LIB/PROG/LEFTY/COMMIE/DEMOCRATS, and even some people here at FR have a tendency to forget that;
BLUE OR GRAY, THEY WERE ALL AMERICANS.