CHARLESTON — In 2020, Marion Square said goodbye to one famous Southern leader and enslaver, John C. Calhoun. On Dec. 11, the downtown park welcomed another, Gen. Robert E. Lee. Five years after Charleston removed a statue of Calhoun, a former U.S. senator and vice president from South Carolina who championed the system of slavery, a heavy stone memorial to Lee, who served as commander of the Confederate States Army, has been placed in the square. The two-ton roadside marker stands along the King Street side of the square after being re-located from a mile south on Upper King Street...
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