Approximately one month after the Charlottesville car attack, in an op-ed in "The Westside Journal", Fellows revealed Robert E. Lee's little-known stance on the confederate statues where, when declining an invitation to erect statues from the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association, Lee said “I think it wiser not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavoured to obliterate the marks of civil strife and to commit to oblivion the feelings it has engendered.” In the op-ed, Fellows later on would go on to say that, "I do agree with Lee in that we should take down all Confederate statues.