Workers load a Confederate statue onto a truck after it was removed from its spot in front of the historic Chatham County courthouse in Pittsboro, N.C. early Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. The removal comes months after Winston-Salem officials removed a Confederate statue from land there that had passed into private hands. It has been rare for public officials to take down Confederate statues in North Carolina since the enactment of a 2015 state historic monuments law restricting the removal of public monuments. A University of North Carolina catalog of monuments says the statue depicts an anonymous soldier holding a rifle with its butt resting on the ground. A state tally shows Confederate monuments are located at contemporary or historic courthouses in about half of the state's counties.