With statues of Confederate generals and political leaders coming down- or at least debated if they should come down- across the country, will the monuments at the Gettysburg National Military Park be affected?
Park spokeswoman Katie Lawhon said the park is not doing any interviews but did release a statement to our newsroom that reads, in part:
“Gettysburg National Military Park preserves, protects, and interprets one of the best marked battlefields in the world. Over 1,325 monuments, markers, and plaques, commemorate and memorialize the men who fought and died during the battle of Gettysburg and continue to reflect how that battle has been remembered by different generations of Americans. Many of these memorials honor southern states whose men served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. These memorials, erected predominantly in the early and mid-20th century, are an important part of the cultural landscape.”
The movement to take down monuments honoring figures from the Confederacy came to a boil last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia during a white supremacist rally to protest plans to remove a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
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