Two bronze statues of Confederate generals will be removed from public property in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, almost four years after the statues were the flashpoint for the violent ...

During the Civil War from 1861 to 1865, ... One of those Union soldiers, ... On May 16, 1864, he was captured by the Confederate Army near Drewry’s Bluff, Va., and sent to Libby Prison in Richmond.

Workers at Arlington National Cemetery will finish removing a monument to Confederate soldiers from the grounds today, and that has drawn mixed reactions, as NPR's Alana Wise reports.