Bellingham Removes Name of Confederate General from a Bridge

by Sydney BrownstonePickett Bridge is now just a bridge.City of Bellingham
It was easy to miss while Seattle's Lenin statue what-about-ism raged: Last week, the city of Bellingham first covered, then removed, signs that named a local bridge for a Confederate general.
After Charlottesville, the Bellingham City Council voted last week to put the issue of renaming Pickett Bridge—named for U.S. Army officer, and subsequently Confederate general, George E. Pickett—to a committee's conside