Including a substantial donation of $10,000, the committee to find a new home for the Confederate monuments at the county courthouse is over halfway to their preliminary fundraising goal. Two monuments with ties to the Confederacy—an obelisk monument dedicated to the Confederate soldiers of Bastrop County and a memorial to Major Joseph Sayers—currently sit on the lawn of the Bastrop County courthouse. After a protest at the courthouse and many citizens’ comments during commissioners’ court meetings, as well as a three-hour public hearing regarding the monuments, the Bastrop County Commissioners Court voted 4-0, with one abstention, to remove the monuments from ...