US remove two statues of Confederate Generals in Charlottesville ANI | Updated: Jul 11, 2021 06:48 IST Charlottesville (Virginia) [US], July 11 (ANI): The US on Saturday morning (local time) removed the two bronze statues of Confederate Generals Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson in Charlottesville, Virginia. As per ABC News, onlookers cheered the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Market Street Park around 8 am and two hours later, the statue of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson was removed from Court Square Park. The statues were at the center of a years-long debate. Its removal comes more than five years after the first effort to remove the Lee statue.