I agree; they didn't want to care for the graves of the Union soldiers in a Confederate town; in a way, this is desecration. And these sound like they were mark

I agree; they didn't want to care for the graves of the Union soldiers in a Confederate town; in a way, this is desecration. And these sound like they were markers from the federal government, so they didn't belong to the city anyway. Did it really cost more to mow around them than to cut them in half? Sounds like the man had some corrupt friends in city hall who got him a great deal on marble blocks!