The national debate about the fate of statues honoring Confederate politicians and military officers has reached a new level, with a black lawmakers' group saying such memorials should be banned from the U.S. Capitol.

It turns out there are plenty of them.

'We will never solve America's race problem if we continue to honor traitors who fought against the United States in order to keep African-Americans in chains,' Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond, a Louisiana Democrat, told ABC News.

'By the way, thank God, they lost,' he said.

Congressmen Cedric Richmond of Louisiana (left) and Bennie Thompson of Mississippi (right), both Democrats, oppose the display of statues in the U.S. Capitol that honor Confederate Civil War heroes and politicians

This statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee is one of two that represent the Commonwealth of Virginia in the Capitol's Statuary Hall – the other is a statue of George Washington

US Navy Lt. William Edmund Newsome looks at a bronze statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis (2nd left) in Statuary Hall in this 2015 file photo

A march in Charlottesville, Virginia attended mostly by neo-Nazis and other white supremacists that turned violent last weekend was originally organized to protest the planned removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from a public park.

Lee was a Confederate army general and a superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy.

A similar statue of the Virginian has stood in the Capitol since 1909, depicting him in his Confederate uniform.

It's one of two statues – the other one bears George Washington's likeness – contributed to the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall by the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Every U.S. state has two statues, and an 1864 law allows for their replacement every 10 years – but only if the state's legislature and governor request it.

Both of Mississippi's are Confederacy tributes, featuring former Confederate president Jefferson Davis and army colonel James George.

Rep. Thompson, Mississippi's lone black congressman, also wants his state's flag removed from display in the U.S. Capitol (shown) because it incorporates the Confederate battle flag

Georgia sent Congress a statue of Confederate vice president Alexander Stephens, who served in the House of Representatives after the Civil War.

Former North Carolina governor Zebulon Vance, who was a Confederate military officer, represents his state along with post-reconstruction governor Charles Brantley Aycock.

One of Florida's statues is of Edmund Kirby Smith, the last Confederate general to surrender to the Union army.

Alabama's representative alongside Helen Keller is Joseph Wheeler, a famed Confederate cavalry general whose checkered history includes the 1864 drowning of hundreds of freed slaves when he ordered the withdrawal of a pontoon bridge spanning an overflowing creek.

The Keller statue arrived in 2009, replacing Confederate army officer Jabez Curry.

South Carolina sent statues of Wade Hampton, a Confederate general who fought at Gettysburg, and former U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun – who was a powerful pro-slavery advocate before the Civil War.

A plan to tear down this statue of Robert E. Lee in a Charlottesville, Virginia park sparked last weekend's neo-Nazi violence that led to the death of a 32-year-old woman

Georgia's statues in the Capitol include one of Confederate vice president Alexander Stephens (left), who served in the House of Representatives after the Civil War

These statues in the Capitol depict Confederate general Joseph Wheeler from Alabama (left) and former U.S. vice president John C. Calhoun (right), a South Carolinian who was a pro-slavery southern advocate during the Civil War

Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat who is Mississippi's only black congressman, has demanded that all the Confederate statues should go – along with his own state's flag, which includes the Confederate 'stars and bars' in its design.

'Confederate memorabilia have no place in this country and especially not in the United States Capitol,' Thompson told The Hill.

'These images symbolize a time of racial discrimination and segregation that continues to haunt this country and many African-Americans who still to this day face racism and bigotry.'

'It is past time for action to remove all Confederate symbols in the U.S. Capitol and on the Mississippi state flag,' he said.

President Donald Trump predicted Tuesday that a rush to remove Confederate statues from public view could ultimately result in demands for similar treatement for American founding fathers who owned slaves in the 18th Century.

'This week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder is it George Washington next week and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?' Trump said.