CHARLESTON — A highway marker commemorating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will once again be displayed downtown, ending a year-long legal battle over its removal.

"Lee will rise again in Charleston," read a July 29 statement from Brett Barry, president of the American Heritage Association — the same group that also recently settled an even longer lawsuit against the Charleston City Council over its removal of the statue of John C. Calhoun from Marion Square.

Rumors have swirled since that the Lee marker may end up in Marion Square, but no one has confirmed its final resting place or that of Calhoun, although terms of the Calhoun settlement explicitly bar that statue from being displayed, publicly or privately, anywhere within the city’s limits.

The monument to Lee was previously

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