The remains of Confederate General A.P. Hill were reinterred after being removed from a monument at a busy Richmond intersection last month.
"Meanwhile, most of the remains of enslaved humans never even got marked graves," commented another Twitter user."They were hidden from the public in remote places and forgotten—even had houses/businesses built on top of them."A statue of Confederate Gen. Ambrose Powell Hill was removed in mid-December from a busy intersection in Richmond following a court battle, and with it his remains buried underneath.
Confederate flags decorate the graves of Confederate soldiers killed during the Civil War, on October 18, 2018, in the historical Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. A ceremony held for the reburial of a Confederate general in Virginia has sparked outrage on social media."The reburial of Gen. A.P. Hill, a bizarre figure even for the demanding standards of massively bearded Confederate Generals.
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