Remove the status, yes. Public statues are monuments of honor. That's why it's called a memorial.
No...they are not always memorials of honor. In most cases they are historical markers. In Germany, in the 1970s, I visited the Dachau Concentration camp which still stands as a museum and memorial.....not the honor the Nazis, but to make sure nobody forgets what took place. it would especially be an insult to jewish people around the world to wipe it off the map.
We should not be honoring traitors who deflected for the explicit reason that they believed the African race was inferior. I am tired of people denying this: they put it right in their official decrees, in the archaic version of those exact words. This is not conjecture, this is not a historical guess, it is a fact stated EXPLICITLY by Confederate leaders.
What you are tired of, simply does not matter. Not every foot soldier fought for the sake of slavery. Most could not afford slaves, which were expensive and only aristrocrats could afford. War is a very nasty business. Many southerners joined the fight after their farms or homes were burned down by advancing Union troops.
And you can call them traitors all you like, however keep in mind that all who fought for independence in the American Revolutionary War were also considered traitors by those who wanted to remain subjects of the British monarchy. The civil war occurred when this nation was less then 100 years old. It settled the issues of succession and slavery. There a succession movement in California. One poll suggests that as many as one third of Californians want to break away from the Union. Are they traitors as well?
Put them in a damn museum.
That should be left up to the localities where the monuments reside, unless they are on federal property.
Remove the informational markers, no. The Civil War itself is an important event in American history that we all should be educated about. Informational plaques are useful, and actually have a defensible purpose to exist in public spaces.
Why the obsession by the left today over monuments representing the civil war which took place over 150 years ago? Most do not glorify slavery. They are simply historical markers of a horrible war that took place roughly 152 years ago. In my county, there are two civil war forts and one replica of a civil war fort. They are all top tourist attractions. Should we tear those down? There are also annual civil war battle re-enactments, mostly involving the battle of Gettysburg, which was a big victory for Union Troops. the reenactments are 100% historically accurate.