Baltimore’s Confederate Monuments Are Back. No One Is Saying Where They Are.

Baltimore’s four controversial Confederate monuments, which were removed in the dead of night nearly nine years ago by former Mayor Catherine Pugh, have reentered Charm City as quietly as they left.

But no one is saying exactly where they are being held or what the plan for them is going forward.

“The Confederate monuments are back in Baltimore,” Lauren Schiszik, executive director of the city Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation, told commissioners during a June 9 briefing session.

“They are being stored in a secure facility. We will not be disclosing their location.”

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The monuments were “quickly and quietly” taken down before dawn on Aug. 16, 2017, at Pugh’s order, five days after the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned violent and claimed three lives.

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The four statues were:

• The statue of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson that previously stood outside the Wyman Park Dell.
• The statue is missing Lee’s scabbard. The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument that once stood on Mount Royal Avenue. After it was removed, vandals chopped off an arm and a
• Confederate flag and doused the whole thing with bright red paint.
• The Confederate Women’s Monument, which was near University Parkway and Charles Street, shows a large bare spot on the figure’s left shoulder.
• The Roger B. Taney Monument, previously in Mount Vernon Square, appeared to be undamaged.

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