Confederate monument at Indy's Garfield Park is coming down

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The city of Indianapolis began dismantling the Confederate monument at Garfield Park on Monday morning, days after Mayor Joe Hogsett announced it would be removed.

The 35-foot-tall memorial was originally installed in 1912 at Greenlawn Cemetery at the site of a mass grave of Confederate prisoners of war who died at Indianapolis’ Camp Morton during the Civil War.

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Source: theindychannel.com

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