The statues of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and Confederate General Robert E.
Lee were taken down in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, nearly four years after white supremacist protests over plans to remove the statue of Lee led to clashes in which a woman was killed.
Cheers broke out Saturday after a statue of Confederate General Robert E.
Lee was lifted from its base - and removed entirely - in Charlottesville, Virginia.
This comes nearly four years after white supremacist protests - over plans to remove it - led to clashes in which a woman was killed after she was run down by a car driven by a self-described neo-Nazi.
On Saturday - Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker spoke to a crowd gathered to watch the statue depart: "As this community and our country attempts to reconcile with this hypothesis of white supremacy, I hope that we can move to an authentic healing by embracing truth.” University of Virginia Professor Larycia Hawkins said she was excited to witness this ‘historical correction.’ “This is a good day.
It’s not erasing history.
It's, it's removing monuments that tell the wrong narrative about history.” A statue of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was also removed Saturday in another city park.
Such statues - honoring leaders of the pro-slavery Confederate side in the American Civil War - have become a focus of protests against racism in recent years.
In April, Virginia's highest court ruled the city could remove both statues, overturning a state Circuit Court decision that had upheld a citizen lawsuit.
This Day in History:, Robert E. Lee Surrenders.
April 9, 1865.
Surrounded with no possibility of escape,
the Confederate General surrendered his troops to
Union General Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox, VA.
Lee met Grant in full dress attire at 1 p.m.
in the parlor of the Wilmer McLean home.
His surrender ended the U.S. Civil War,
the bloodiest war in American history.
Having known each other from the Mexican War,
the two spoke briefly before Grant wrote out the terms.
As part of the terms, Lee's 28,000 starving troops,
who had been cut off from supplies, would be pardoned
and fed Union rations.
The solemn ceremony ended with Grant telling his officers,
"The war is over. The Rebels are our countrymen again."
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This Day in History: , The Civil War Begins.
April 12, 1861.
Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, SC,
is attacked by Confederate shore batteries
under the command of General P.G.T. Beauregard.
After being battered
for 34 straight hours,
U.S. Major Robert Anderson
surrendered the fort.
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
called for 75,000 volunteer
soldiers two days later.
He had been in office
for barely more than a month.
South Carolina, a slave state,
had issued an "Ordinance of Secession"
earlier in December, dissolving its ties with the Union.
The following four years of war between
the North and South would be the bloodiest
in American history, resulting in the deaths
of more than 620,000 Confederate and Union soldiers
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