New Orleans has begun removing statues that the city's mayor said were erected to honor the "lost cause of the Confederacy." The first to go early Monday morning was the Battle of Liberty Three Confederate statues were removed from public spaces in New Orleans nearly two years ago, but officials are still trying to decide what to do with them. The statues of Confederate New Orleans' Lee Circle, which has a prominent statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. WWL-TV Landrieu drew blistering criticism from monument supporters and even some political allies. The Latest: Last Confederate monument removed in New Orleans ___. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has declared that the Confederacy was "on the wrong side of humanity" as he ___. Workers backed by a crane have tied ropes around a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, which has perched A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is removed from Lee Circle in New Orleans. AP NEW ORLEANS — They were among the city's oldest landmarks, as cemented to the landscape of First of four monuments honoring Confederate history removed in New Orleans. The city is removing the statues despite security threats Removal of Robert E. Lee monument on May 19, 2017. About two weeks later, the statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis at the intersection of Jefferson Davis Parkway and Canal Street was taken down in the pre-sunset hours of May 11th. A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is removed Friday from Lee Circle in New Orleans. Lee's was the last of four monuments to Confederate-era figures to be removed under a 2015 New Orleans on Monday began removing four monuments dedicated to the era of the Confederacy and its aftermath, capping a prolonged battle about the future of the memorials, which critics deemed Of the four monuments, Lee's was easily the most prominent: The bronze statue alone is close to 20 feet (6 meters) tall. It's a bronze sculpture of Lee looking toward the northern horizon from atop a roughly 60-foot-tall (18 meter) column. It's not massive like the Superdome or alluring like Bourbon Street, but Lee in his uniform was a New Orleans is removing four statues built between 1884-1915 First erected in 1891, it commemorated the Crescent City White League's attempt to overthrow the post-Civil War government. CNN —. As many onlookers cheered Friday, a crane hoisted the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the top of a monument in New Orleans. It is the fourth, and final, Civil War-era The statue of Robert E. Lee is separated from its column Friday, May 19, 2017. It was the final of four post-Civil War monuments in New Orleans that Mayor Mitch Landrieu removed. (Photo by Pedestrians pass the former site of the John McDonogh monument in Lafayette Square in New Orleans on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. A year and a half after protesters removed the statue of McDonogh from .

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