The Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery should be dismantled and removed from the cemetery, according to an independent commission’s final report to Congress with suggestions for renaming military bases and assets that commemorate the Confederacy. 

The statue, which was unveiled in 1914 and features a bronze woman representing the South, is “problematic from top to bottom” and should be removed entirely, according to the report. The statue’s base also features shields with the coats of arms of the 13 Confederate states, as well as depictions of enslaved men and women.