A judge ruled in October that the city, not the descendants of Confederate General A.P. Hill, should decide where his statue and remains are moved.
The city of Richmond removed the statue of former Confederate General A.P. Hill Monday, the last of its public Confederate monuments, concluding a two-year effort by city officials and protestors to remove memorials to the Confederacy in its former capital.The Washington Post via Getty ImagesA 130-year-old statue memorializing Hill, a former Confederate general, was removed by construction workers before 10 a.m. Monday.
The process to remove Hill’s statue has taken longer than other efforts because it contains his remains, the, though a lawsuit brought forward by Hill’s indirect descendants arguing they should decide where his statue and remains should be moved was shot down by Judge David Cheek in October. Cheek ruled in favor of the city moving the statue to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, while Hill’s remains will be reburied in Culpeper, Virginia, near where he was born.to Axios, adding Richmond had completed its project to remove memorials to the Confederacy and “can turn the next page.
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