The campaign against Confederate statues rages on in Maryland, this time out west at a historic Civil War battlefield.
Last Friday, former Lt. Gov. and current U.S. Rep. Anthony Brown introduced a bill in Congress that calls for the ouster of a 24-foot-tall monument to Confederate general Robert E. Lee, which sits on federal land at Antietam National Battlefield in Washington County.
The statue depicts Lee holding a pair of binoculars while mounted on a horse. It was commissioned and placed there by a private citizen in 2003, when the parcel was privately owned land, but the federal government acquired the property two years later. Now, in 2017, several of Maryland’s Democratic congressmen are calling for its removal.
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