I demur.
Rather, my avatar would suggest that one is un-American by honoring, celebrating, and erecting statues to folks like Nathan Bedford Forrest, a war criminal hung on a scaffold --- but for the magnanimity of Lincoln and Grant.
If the good poster Correll wants to celebrate the Lee's, Davis's, the Picketts of that war, hell, even the Forrests......he's quite free to do so.
But do it on private property....... not on property owned by or funded by the taxpayers of the United States of America, the nation they tried so desperately to destroy.
Other than that I'm pretty neutral on all that.
Your position is absurd, and ignores the last 5 generations of American history.
Lee, Forrest, ect, have all been assimilated back into America by better people than you.
Why do you think that Lincoln and Grant, people who had to deal with the Confederates, WHEN TEHY WERE FUCKING ALIVE, were so magnanimous?
Because they wanted to heal the wounds of the war, not keep them open forever.
And they did.
Who are you, what is your moral authority, that you think you can gainsay LINCOLN, or GRANT, on these issues?