<br /> <p>A statue of Confederate States Army Gen PGT Beauregard was removed from its pedestal outside City Park, New Orleans, in the early hours of May 17.</p><p>The statue was the third of four monuments that city officials planned to take down. The final statue, of Robert E Lee, at Lee Circle, will be the last to come down.</p><p>The removals, which were approved in December 2016 by the New Orleans City Council, mark a “step in defining our City not by our past but by our bright future,” Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a news release</a>. “We will not allow the Confederacy to be put on a pedestal in the heart of New Orleans.”</p><br />
