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Confederate veteran descendants can’t stop relocation of statues

Confederate veteran descendants can’t stop relocation of statues

Confederate veteran descendants can’t stop relocation of statues

Descendants of Confederate veterans have no standing to sue to stop the relocation of a statue of Jefferson Davis on the University of Texas at Austin campus, the Court of Appeals of Texas has held. It has affirmed a trial court decision dismissing the case. George Washington Littlefield was a major contributor to the university in its first fifty years of existence. In his 1918 will, he left several large bequests to the university, including one to erect an arch and five statues at the south entrance to the campus. The statues were to be those of Jefferson Davis, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, John Reagan, postmaster general of the Confederacy, and James S. Hogg, a...

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