Arlington National Cemetery is set to uproot Confederate Statue as Biden administration continues push to remove Civil War monuments

A Confederate reconciliation memorial is set to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery, ignoring a recent demand from over 40 Republican congressmen to stop the Pentagon from following through. Safety fencing has been installed around the memorial, and officials anticipate completing the removal by December 22, the Arlington National Cemetery said in an email. A Confederate reconciliation memorial is set to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery, ignoring a recent demand from over 40 Republican congressmen to stop the Pentagon In 2022, an independent commission recommended that the memorial be taken down, as part of its final report to Congress on the renaming of military bases and assets that commemorate the Confederacy. Safety fencing has been installed around the memorial, and officials anticipate completing the removal by December 22, the Arlington National Cemetery said in an email In 2022, an independent commission recommended that the memorial be taken down, as part of its final report to Congress on renaming of military bases and assets that commemorate the Confederacy Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin disagrees with the decision and plans to move the monument to the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park in the Shenandoah Valley, Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said The statue, unveiled in 1914, features a bronze woman, crowned with olive leaves, standing on a 32-foot pedestal, and was designed to represent the American South According to Arlington, the woman holds a laurel wreath, a plow stock and a pruning hook, with a Biblical inscription at her feet that says: 'They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks' A process to prepare for the memorial´s removal and relocation has been completed, the cemetery said.