Here’s a short 2 and a half minute Youtube video that’s relevant and informative.
This timeline shows confederate monuments are about racial conflict
For those of you that don’t want to watch (of course, some of it is meaningless without having watched the video for the full context);
This makes it pretty clear that these monuments weren’t just trying to ‘celebrate history and honor the noble Confederacy.’ They were erected to scare and intimidate black people, plain and simple.