This is SOOOO wrong. 
I have no issue with taking out recent statues, and stopping any more from being built. 
BUT, to destroy something from 100 years ago OR OLDER, is just wrong. 

If they must, then bring it down and put it in a state museum to describe the civil war and the state's actions in it. But to bring these down AND DESTROY them, makes these ppl no different than ISIS or even the very NAZIs/KKK that they oppose.  

This destruction of history MUST STOP.