Bill seeks removal of Confederate statue at Antietam

摘要

The Interior Department would be forced to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee from the Antietam NationalrnBattlefield in Sharpsburg, Md., under a new House bill introduced by three Maryland Democrats.rnMaryland Democratic Rep. Anthony Brown, the bill's chief author, said the statue of the Confederate general isrnoffensive because it "commemorates a man that owned and beat African Americans and fought to preserve therninstitution of slavery."