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One Confederate monument is gone and another is slated to be taken down at Forest Hill Cemetery after Madison Mayor Paul Soglin ordered their removal.

Soglin said in a statement Thursday that he directed city staff to remove a plaque and a larger stone monument at the Confederate Rest section of the public cemetery, saying, “There should be no place in our country for bigotry, hatred or violence against those who seek to unite our communities and our country.”

The decision aligns with similar ones throughout the United States to remove statues and monuments dedicated to the Confederacy after a violent protest Saturday involving neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, left one person dead and several others injured.

Soglin said the violence in Charlottesville “prompted us to revisit the matter and to make this decision.”

A memorial plaque at the Confederate Rest section of the Near West Side cemetery was removed Wednesday afternoon.

It described the 140 people buried there as “valiant Confederate soldiers” and “unsung heroes.” The privately funded plaque, which rested on a granite structure, said the soldiers were buried in the Union state after surrendering in a battle and dying at Camp Randall as prisoners of war.