CONFEDERATE HERITAGE NEWS, Dec. 21(Click on highlight for full story)

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The statue of General Robert E. Lee in the Capitol's National Statuary Hall in Congress has been removed by order of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam at 4 o'clock A.M. in the dark of night. He has had it replaced by a civil right figure named Barbara Rose Johns.

    The statue of Lee has been in the collection of since 1909 and the commission that recommended it be removed, recommended the statue to now be transferred to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond, Virginia. 

Robert E. Lee Statue

In Capitol Statuary Hall

(Library of Congress)

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A vote was scheduled to be taken today, Dec. 21, by the Walker County Commissioners Court of whether or not to remove a Confederate monument that has been outside the courthouse since 1956.

     The monument has the outline image of a Confederate battle flag with the inscription "IN MEMORY OF OUR CONFEDERATE PATRIOTS 1851-1865." It was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Supporters of the monument want it preserved since it honors their ancestors and is historically educational.