The Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer reports that the Daviess County Fiscal Court was expected to vote Tuesday on a resolution that would've moved the statue to property owned by the Kentucky Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Instead, they voted to postpone the decision until Aug. 6.
A Daughters of the Confederacy official praised the delay, saying she wants the statue to remain in public view.
Meanwhile, a leader of the local NAACP chapter said placing the statue anywhere prominent continues the “glorification of the Confederate cause.”
The Daviess County website's Public Art page says the 7-foot-tall bronze figure of a common soldier is mounted on a 9-foot granite pedestal. The website says made by sculptor George Julian Zolnay and was dedicated on September 21, 1900.
