Several Virginia Counties Voted to Keep Civil War and Confederate Monuments

In another rebuke of the woke culture wars, voters in the Virginia counties of Mathews, Middlesex, and Nottoway voted against measures to relocate or remove Confederate/Civil War monuments.

For voters of Mathews County, the ballot proposition consisted of relocating the “Soldier’s & Sailor’s Monument” that is situated on the comer of Court and Church streets on the Historic Court Green.

In the case of Middlesex County, the vote focused on the removal of a Confederate monument that the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected in 1910. The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors voted 3 to 2 to put this question on the ballot back in July. 

Nottoway County also decided on whether it would relocate a Confederate war monument that was erected in front of the county courthouse in 1893. This same county is where Fort Pickett is located, which was named in honor of Confederate Major General George E. Pickett. The military base will be going through a name change after Congress issued an order to change the names of all military bases named in honor of members of the Confederacy.