Statue of the best general on either side of Civil War removed

NY Times:

Stonewall Jackson Statue in Richmond Taken Down to Cheers

A monument to the Confederate general was pulled off its pedestal after Mayor Levar
Stoney used emergency powers to order Confederate monuments removed from city grounds.

Jackson was one of the few generals who understood how the machinery of warfare had changed the battlefield.  He would have his troops dig in and fight from fox holes and trench lines rather than exchange fire with enemy troops as had been the nature of battle up until the Civil War.  He was also a master of maneuver warfare to get his troops into position to deal with enemy forces.  He was killed in a friendly fire accident.  If he had not been killed I suspect he would have talked Lee out of his suicidal Picket's charge at Gettysburg against dug-in Union forces.

His statue was taken down because of the side he fought on.

What is little understood about the Civil War is how the Confederacy actually sped up the end of slavery.  If you take a close look at the Emancipation Proclamation you will see that Lincoln did not end slavery in slave states that did not join the Confederacy.  Since slaves were considered property, the Constitution made it difficult to take away those property rights.  Lincoln limited the application of his proclamation to states in rebellion.  That may have been of questionable legality and it took the 13th Amendment to legally end it.  It was approved after the war when most of the slaveholders were ineligible to vote.  Were it not for the war, it would likely have taken decades to get the 13th amendment approved.