Verkkofoundry workers adjust pieces of charlottesville's bronze monument of confederate gen. Lee atop a furnace to heat them in preparation for. Verkkothe statue’s defenders more recently sought to block the city from handing lee over to charlottesville’s black history museum, which proposed a plan to repurpose the. Lee sculpture depicted the confederate general astride his horse, traveller, and served as the centerpiece of a park in downtown. Verkkoa statue of an american confederate general at the centre of a violent rally in charlottesville nearly four years ago has been taken down. — the statue of confederate gen. Lee that drew violent protests to charlottesville, virginia, will be melted down. Verkkoinstead of storing a statue of confederate general robert e. Verkkoa foundry worker’s plasma torch illuminates the inside of the faceless head of charlottesville’s bronze monument of robert e. Lee as it is cut into smaller pieces.
