Amidst the chaos of 1860s warfare, one Confederate unit marched into battle dressed like Revolutionary War ghosts. This was no accident.

The Dean Cemetery obelisk has attracted a bit of controversy. Some visitors have vandalised it. Others have left Confederate memorabilia at the site though debate has been far less intense here ...

in 2017, high school and college students, among other people, held their own rallies in Decatur, demanding the removal of the Confederate obelisk. Many of them were younger than Lewis had been as ...

(CNN) — A statue honoring civil rights hero and US Congressman John Lewis was unveiled Saturday outside of Atlanta, replacing a Confederate monument that had stood there for more than a century.

A 30-foot Confederate obelisk erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908 previously stood in Decatur Square for more than 110 years. It featured text inscriptions on all four sides ...

"In short, the Confederate obelisk has become an increasingly frequent target of graffiti and vandalism, a figurative lightning rod for friction among citizens, and a potential catastrophe that ...

people in Decatur focused their energy and vandalism on the Confederate obelisk outside the Historic DeKalb Courthouse. About half of DeKalb County’s 764,000 residents identify as Black or ...

For years, activists pushed for the Confederate memorial, a 30-foot stone obelisk that had stood in the same spot as the new statue, to be removed. In 2019, a plaque was installed that said the ...

The confederate monument was a stone obelisk erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908. It became the subject of protests over police violence following the death of George Floyd.

ALTON — A huge tree that fell from one of the recent storms came just 30 feet from hitting the 57-foot-tall obelisk at the Confederate Cemetery on Rozier Street. The tree broke off at its base ...

The obelisk was dismantled before the Court of ... served as governor from 1862 to 1865 and 1877 to 1879. He was also a Confederate military officer and U.S. senator. The city has said the ...