Lexington KY mayor vows to move Confederate statues
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Lexington mayor wants Confederate statues
moved -- now


Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan's cavalry terrorized Indiana and the Cincinnati area during the Civil War

Lexington mayor Jim Gray said in a statement that plans to move the statues were planned before the violence in Charlottesville but now wants to speed things up.

“We have thoroughly examined this issue, and heard from many of our citizens,” he said in the statement posted on Saturday.

The statues of John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate general, and John C. Breckinridge, the 14th vice president of the United States who also served as the Confederate secretary of war, are on the grounds of Lexington's former courthouse.

The building, which has not been used for several years, is scheduled to reopen as a visitors center next year. The proposal under consideration would move them to a city park, Veterans Park, notes the New York Times quoting a story by The Lexington Herald-Leader.

Morgan's Raid was a highly publicized incursion by Confederate cavalry into the northern U.S. states of Indiana and Ohio during the Civil War.

The raid took place from June 11–July 26, 1863, and is named for the commander of the Confederates, Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan. More info on the raids here.