CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — NewsChannel 9 has learned that the Tennessee chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) plans to be in Chattanooga next week to push for the removal of a statue of Confederate Lieutenant General Alexander P. Stewart from outside the front of the Hamilton County courthouse.
We reported on the statue last month, when the Chattanooga chapter of the NAACP called for the removal of the Stewart statue as similar Confederate statues were coming down in New Orleans.
“We find it offensive to be reminded constantly of the atrocities that they represent,” Quenston A. Coleman, the second Vice President of the Chattanooga Branch NAACP told us.
Lieutenant General Stewart fought for the Army of Tennessee, during the Battle of Chickamauga, and was wounded on September 19th, 1863…
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