I support the NAACP lawsuit to remove the Confederate statue.
My great-grandfather, Robert Haywood Lewis (Stoneville, N.C.), enlisted as a corporal in the Confederate army at age 22. Later promoted to sergeant, he was shot through the hand at Gettysburg and hospitalized to clean the infection. When he was able, he returned to the conflict. On his 25th birthday, he was captured at Petersburg and held in the Union POW camp at Port Lookout, Md., until the war’s end. At that time, according to family records, “He took an oath of allegiance to the United States,” restoring his citizenship, and returned to Stoneville to rebuild his life.