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The city of Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War, is set to remove its last public Confederate statue. va kprc2 click2houston civilwar confederacy

in 2020. But efforts to remove the Hill statue, which sat in the middle of a busy intersection near a school, were more complicated because the general’s remains were interred beneath it about 25 years after his death at the end of the Civil War.

Ambrose Powell Hill died days before the war's end in 1865, according to a timeline provided in court documents during a legal battle over the removal. His remains were interred in a family cemetery in Chesterfield County, according to a city petition to move the remains. The remains were moved in 1867 to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, where they remained until 1891, when they were moved to the spot where the monument was unveiled the following year.

“It's his headstone. I just feel like anybody else's headstone with their family name on it, you don't want to see that come down," he said. In October, a judge ruled that city officials — not the descendants — would get to decide where the statue went next. “Richmond had more Confederate monuments than any other city in the United States of America, and we were the former capital of the Confederacy,” Mayor Levar Stoney said. “And so this wasn’t just two years of work, this was a hundred years of difficult work.”

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