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Virginia takes back Robert E. Lee statue from U.S. Capitol
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Workers remove Confederate General Robert E. Lee s statue. Photo by Jack Mayer/Office of Gov. Ralph Northam
Dec. 21 (UPI) Virginia has taken back the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue it contributed to the National Statuary Hall Collection at the U.S. Capitol over 100 years ago.
Workers removed the statue of the Confederate commander of the Army of Northern Virginia overnight, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced in a statement Monday.
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The confederate general had stood in the National Statuary Hall Collection at the U.S. Capitol, as one of two statues each state is entitled to display since 1909, 44 years after the Confederacy rebelled against the United States and was defeated. Lee s statue stood with Virginia s other contribution to the collection, a statute of America s first president George Washington, added the same year.