The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — is set to remove its last public Confederate statue.
Richmond removed its other Confederate monuments amid the racial justice protests that followed George Floyd’s killing in 2020. But efforts to remove the statue of Confederate General A.P. Hill, which sits in the middle of a busy intersection near a school where traffic accidents are frequent, were more complicated because the general’s remains were interred beneath it. A crane and other equipment arrived at the intersection Monday morning.
