The attorney representing the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a Massachusetts native with ancestors who fought on both sides of the Civil War, told RedState despite the Army’s accelerated deconstruction of Arlington National Cemetery’s Confederate Memorial and repeated legal setbacks, the fight to save the monument is not a lost cause.
“There’s potentially a legal solution or potentially a political solution,” said H. Edward Phillips III, who is based in Franklin, Tennessee.
Phillips said he filed motions Dec. 21 that acknowledge that the Army and its contractor hurried the removal of the memorial’s bronze program and statue, created by sculptor Moses Ezekiel, that request the court ensure that the bronze elements be adequately stored and protected, anticipating their return to Arlington.
Ezekiel, whose grave is at the base of the monument, joining the more than 400…
