Virginia to replace statue of Robert E. Lee with Barbara Johns effigy By (0) A commission in Virginia has chosen to replace the statue of Robert E. Lee, a leader of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, with one of civil rights activist to Barbara Johns in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Photo by Sarah Silbiger/UPI | License Photo Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A commission in Virginia on Wednesday selected to replace the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee representing that state in the U.S. Capitol with an effigy of a black teenage girl who protested segregation.