April 24 (UPI) -- The first of four monuments honoring the Civil war's Confederate cause was removed from downtown New Orleans on Monday.
Crews wearing masks and driving in trucks with company names concealed arrived early Monday morning at downtown New Orleans' Liberty Square. By 5:35 a.m., the Liberty Monument, a memorial obelisk erected in 1891 to honor fallen members of a Civil War paramilitary group called The White League, was dismantled and hauled away.