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The statue of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart is turned on its side and lowered onto a flatbed truck Tuesday after being removed from its pedestal at Monument Avenue and Stuart Circle. It is the last of four city-owned statues on the tree-lined street to be taken down and sent to storage.

The statue of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart is turned on its side and lowered onto a flatbed truck Tuesday after being removed from its pedestal at Monument Avenue and Stuart Circle. It is the last of four city-owned statues on the tree-lined street to be taken down and sent to storage.

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Remnants of the Confederacy

The statue of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, the last of the four city-owned Confederate statues on Monument Avenue, was taken down and moved to storage Tuesday

The former capital of the Confederacy has largely been wiped clean of the racist statuary that has long dominated the landscape.