Museum, St. Louis dispute ownership of Confederate statue

(AP) – St. Louis officials and the Missouri Civil War Museum are
fighting over who owns a divisive Confederate monument.Museum Executive Director Mark Trout tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that
the United Daughters of the Confederacy signed over the monument rights to the
museum on Tuesday.

The group was allowed to build and maintain the monument in Forest Park thanks
to a 1912 city ordinance.

But city officials say the city has control over the structure and its
removal.

Trout says the museum would consider legal action if the city doesn’t forfeit
the monument.

St. Louis has talked about taking down the monument since 2015. Other
Confederate monuments nationwide have sparked similar debate.

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