No historical event has intrinsic meaning.  Their meanings arise only from context, and since some events have multiple possible contexts, multiple meanings are found. The French Revolution, for example, has undergone at least four great interpretations, the revolutionary-republican, the Catholic-royalist, the Marxist, and finally the as the French civil war, between Paris and the countryside, that created the modern French state.  

Similarly, our Civil War has always had multiple meanings.  It was the war to save the union, and the war to end slavery, but not necessarily to the same people.  Later it became the tragic war between brothers (as if it ever could have been avoided!).  Now it is resurrected as only the apparent defeat of white supremacy.  The many Confederate monuments that have been hiding in plain sight for nigh on a century are suddenly discovered to be evidence of this.  They will be pulled down.  But that will not end the war.