The responsibilities of a committee to oversee the relocation of Confederate monuments at the county courthouse, as well as a letter from the United Daughters of the Confederacy regarding their interest in being involved in the relocation of the monuments, were discussed at the Bastrop County Commissioners’ Court last Monday. 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 ...