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[My Name Is Kate]

I agree that there is something not quite right about putting up statues to people whose main legacy is that they believed in slavery and were willing to sacrifice the unity of this country to preserve it. If that is true of Jefferson Davis and some others, why not remove their statues, but also remove statues of General Sherman and General Sheridan, who used scorched earth tactics against Southern civilians? The potential problem with that is, President Lincoln surely must have approved and endorsed what Sherman and Sheridan did, so should all statues of Lincoln be removed too? Or does the simple fact of living in the South and believing in slavery, even if one never owned any slaves, mean it is okay to wipe such people off the face of the earth? Do they not also have a "spark of divinity?"