NYC church removes Robert E. Lee plaque

Name: NYC church removes Robert E. Lee plaque
Uploaded: 2017-08-16T21:04:00+00:00
Duration: 2 min 27 s
Description: For more than 100 years, a plaque stood outside St. John's Episcopal Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, marking a tree planted by Robert E. Lee in the 1840s when he was stationed at the U.S. Army's Fort Hamilton before joining the Confederacy and becoming a general in the Confederate Army.

For more than 100 years, a plaque stood outside St. John's Episcopal Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, marking a tree planted by Robert E. Lee in the 1840s when he was stationed at the U.S. Army's Fort Hamilton before joining the Confederacy and becoming a general in the Confederate Army.

Posted August 16, 2017 5:30pm EDT