Many communities around Virginia and the South at large are reconsidering the place that monuments to Civil War generals hold in public spaces. One such monument is Poplar Grove Cemetery, where thousands of Civil War soldiers are buried. It's been in a state of decay for decades: it regularly flooded and tombstones began degrading after they were laid flat into the ground in order to facilitate landscape maintenance in the 1930s. But this past weekend the cemetery reopened after a complete refurbishment. And it once again memorializes the more human side of war.
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