Plans are moving forward to bring a Confederate memorial back to Arlington National Cemetery three years after it was removed.⁠ ⁠ A representative from the Office of Army Cemeteries presented final design plans for the statue to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts during a meeting Thursday morning.⁠ ⁠ The statue, unveiled in 1914, features a bronze woman, crowned with olive leaves, standing on a 32-foot pedestal, and was designed to represent the American South. Some of the figures also on the statue include a Black woman depicted as “Mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.⁠ ⁠ It is undergoing renovations and is expected to be placed back at Arlington next year.⁠ ⁠ In 2022, an independent commission recommended the memorial be taken down, as part of its final report to Congress on renaming of military bases and assets that commemorate the Confederacy. It was removed in December 2023.⁠ ⁠ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...