There are many people (not so much in the media, but more like local politicians and Facebook pundits) stating that many Confederate Memorials were put up in the 1960's as a way of reinforcing segregation. However I can't really find any list to either prove or disprove this assertion.
I don't really think this is true, I think the golden age was from about 1900 through WW1. But I could be wrong.
Could anyone enlighten me with some facts?
Is there a comprehensive list of all the Civil War memorials with the date of completion?
Not to deter further discussion, but...
There's a very comprehensive Monday Method's thread from just a few days ago featuring many flaired users discussing the statues, their importance (or lack thereof) to historical study, and the circumstances of their erection and removal to an extent, as well as some other examples of national memorials and how they were handled after regime changes.
/u/The_Alaskan gave a fantastic answer here to the question of why many confederate memorials were raised in Union states as well as some territories which weren't incorporated as states during the Civil War.
And /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov gave his own answer to a question on the phases of memorialization and then commemoration of the Confederacy.