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D.C.'s Statue of a Confederate General Isn't What Its Critics Think It Is

Brigadier General Albert Pike is honored for his civic and philanthropic legacy, not his role in the Civil War.

Jacob R. Swartz | Coming: From the February/March 2026 issue

(Photo: Brigadier General Albert Pike Monument; Abraham Sobkowski OFM/Wikimedia)

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Jacob R. Swartz is the fall 2025 Burton C. Gray Memorial Journalism Intern at Reason.

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