2020 Civil War monuments!
The year 2020 has been a historic one for many reasons, but one thing seems to be happening is the attack by rioters and vandals upon historic locations and monuments.
Monuments to U.S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, and John Greenleaf Whittier have been targeted as easily as Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and other Confederate statues.
Our country is in a crisis for losing history and people who didn't learn and don't care to learn, are trying to make the history fit their narrative.
Mob rule was never a good road to follow and I urge everyone to pressure your elected officials to safe and protect American history - the good, the bad and the controversial. We all need to learn from the past.
A chapter in my book highlights Albert Pike and in my research, I NEVER found primary source material to connect Pike to the Klan. Many sites claim to have his connection, but none can note the original source.
On June 19, 2020, rioters toppled and set fire to Pike's monument, erroneously claiming his connection to the KKK and his time with the CSA.
Personally, he was for Indian rights and against slavery. He was very involved in the Masons and not long after his death, a statue was erected in Washington, DC, by the Masons.
Albert Pike has controversy partly on that battle, and soon resigned from the CSA Army.
When the war broke out, Pike would join the Confederacy and serve as a general, most notably at the Battle of Pea Ridge, where he led various tribal warriors on behalf of the Confederates.
Newburyport's Albert Pike (pictured) left Newburyport as a young man and after a stops, settled in Arkansas.
Pike was a brilliant man and knew many languages, including many of the native tribes of North America.
