Why was the tourist attraction called Stone Mountain built?

Answer 1

Stone Mountain is a monument honoring the Confederate generals who fought in the US Civil War. It was built so that all people, not just Southerners, could see who these men were. One famous one, Stonewall Jackson led his army with one arm as one was lost in the war. Later Jackson would be killed in battle. The generals, more then the common man or woman in the South knew that the Northern States had a larger army and were better equipped than the South for a war. Despite this, they volunteered to fight against superior armies. It is important to note that these men were not fighting for slavery. If that were so, no monument would have been built. They all volunteered and risked everything they had in defense of their "country" .

In the same sense, Northern generals were not fighting to deny the civil rights of freed Black slaves who could not vote or hold public office in the North. They were not fighting to keep Washington DC and the US State of Maryland, slave holding places which they were until after the Civil War. They fought as men dedicated to keep the Union alive as one nation, not two nations.