LOUISA — A lawyer for an African-American man charged with capital murder in Louisa County asked the judge last Thursday to have a large portrait of Robert E. Lee removed from the courtroom prior to trial.

“The Civil War was really fought primarily over slavery and the racial supremacy of whites,” Douglas Ramseur, told Louisa County Circuit Judge Timothy K. Sanner.

“They painted him in his uniform to send a message … to venerate the [Lost] Cause,” the lawyer added.

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