A federal judge on Tuesday reversed a previous court ruling and allowed the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia to remove a century-old Confederate monument. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Rossie Alston issued a temporary injunction on the removal of the monument that was erected in honor of soldiers who died fighting for the Confederacy during the […]
COLUMBIA, S.C.—Hundreds of Civil War relics were unearthed during the cleanup of a South Carolina river where Union troops dumped Confederate military equipment to deliver a demoralizing blow for rebel forces in the birthplace of the secessionist movement. The artifacts were discovered while crews removed tar-like material from the Congaree River, and brought new tangible […]
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach is withdrawing its subpoena of former President Donald Trump. The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has begun the removal and modification of 13 Confederate memorials and symbols on its campus. This continues the nationwide trend of taking Confederate memorials down. Gun rights group “Gun Owners […]
RICHMOND, Va.—The city of Richmond—the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War—removed its last city-owned Confederate statue Monday. It took just minutes to free the statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill from its base before a crane using yellow straps looped under the statue’s arms lifted it onto a bed of tires […]
The House has passed a bill to remove statues of Confederate supporters from the Capitol building, calling them symbols of hate and division. That echoes a National Archives report that described the federal agency’s Rotunda as a symbol of “structural racism.”
Mississippi’s House and Senate passed a measure that will remove the Confederate symbol from the state’s flag, sending the historic bill to Gov. Tate Reeves’ desk. Reeves has said he would sign legislation to change the flag’s insignia. The legislation cleared the House on Sunday 91-23 and also the Senate with a 37-14 vote. The […]
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recommended a new building to house the Silent Sam statue, months after it was illegally torn down by activists. The statue honors alumni of the university who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. In a report released by the university’s board of trustees and Chancellor Carol […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP)—They were among the city’s oldest landmarks, as cemented to the landscape of New Orleans as the Superdome and St. Louis Cathedral: a stone obelisk heralding white supremacy and three statues of Confederate stalwarts. But after decades standing sentinel over this Southern city, the Confederate monuments are gone, amid a controversy that at […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP)—Workers in New Orleans took down a Confederate monument to Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard early Wednesday as onlookers watched from lawn chairs and monument supporters waved Confederate battle flags. It was the third of four such monuments to come down under cover of darkness in the city. New outlets showed footage of the statue […]
