Not long after protests surrounding plans to remove a Confederate statue in Virginia turned deadly Saturday, hundreds gathered in San Antonio over calls there to move a 118-year old Confederate monument.

More than 300 protesters gathered in Travis Park, the San Antonio Express-News reported. The initial rally was organized by the group This is Texas Freedom Force, requesting that the statue in the park stay in place.

The group's Facebook event description announced there would be several speakers — adding that "we will not stand quietly by while our Texas history is erased."

Two San Antonio councilmen, Robert Treviño and Cruz Shaw, proposed that the statue be moved earlier this month.

The group SATX4 organized a counter-protest one hour before the rally to call for statue's removal.

"SATX4 will not stay silent in the face of white supremacy," the Facebook event description read. "History of white power belongs in a museum, not in the heart of our city."

One person was arrested and will be charged, police told the Express-News. Another was detained but not arrested. Most protesters had left the area by 5 p.m. Saturday. There were no reports of violence.

San Antonio's competing protests were similar to protests Thursday evening over Dallas' Confederate War Memorial. Protesters calling for the 60-foot-high monument's removal were interrupted by an opposing group and the night ended in a shouting match. The monument is surrounded by statues of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.

Similar protests over Confederate monuments have erupted across the country.

On Saturday, a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville turned deadly when a driver plowed through a group of counter-protesters. A 32-year-old woman was killed and at least 26 others were injured, officials said.

The driver, who is in custody, has not yet been identified.

Two others were killed in a helicopter crash about seven miles southwest of Charlottesville hours after the car attack. Officials say the crash that killed the pilot and the passenger is linked to the violent white nationalist rally. It was not immediately clear how the crash was connected.