“The 10-foot bronze statue of a Confederate soldier carrying a Civil War-era artillery sponge, which had stood in this spot looking out toward Monroe Park since 1912, was pulled down Tuesday as protests continued for the 19th straight night despite the rain. The soldier commemorating a Virginia Howitzer artillery unit that fought in the Civil War fell to cheers after someone tied a rope around its ankles and pulled. Soon after, the crowd dispersed, leaving the statue laying face-down in the dirt where it had fallen.”