ADVERTISEMENT Confederate monument removed from city hall in Louisiana after 99 years by The Associated Press | Today at 8:12 p.m. The statue of Confederate Gen. Alfred Mouton is removed from the front of City Hall in Lafayette, La., on Saturday, July 17, 2021. The statue had stood in front of the city hall for 99 years. (Scott Clause/The Daily Advertiser via AP) LAFAYETTE, La. — Spectators cheered Saturday as a stone statue of a Confederate general was hoisted by a crane and removed from a pedestal where it stood for 99 years in front of a city hall in south Louisiana. The Advertiser posted video of the work that happened a day after United Daughters of the Confederacy signed a settlement agreeing to move the statue of Gen. Alfred Mouton or let the city do so. A trial had been scheduled for July 26.