Confederate War

The latter lyric refers to Confederate war monuments removed in recent years, in condemnation of their racist underpinnings.

As historian David Blight documents, Black Charlestonians organized a burial of Union prisoners of war who had died in a Confederate war prison.

It has expanded into a line of items, such as shadow boxes with tape tied around a Confederate war bond, as well as inches of fabric encased in acrylic paperweights and pieces bottled in jewelry, including earrings, cuff links and pendants.

For 108 years, a massive bronze statue hailing the glory of the South has stood sentry over Confederate war dead buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Mr. Woodworth wrote that Polk consistently undermined the Confederate war effort but that “his special relationship with the president made the bishop-general untouchable.”