Protesters toppled a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina. The school is putting it back.

A Confederate statue known as "Silent Sam" at the Chapel Hill campus of the University of North Carolina will be reinstalled after it was toppled by protesters this month, a member of the university's board of governors, Thom Goolsby, has announced. The monument's restoration will happen within 90 days.

Meanwhile, three of the protesters who downed the statue have been charged with misdemeanor rioting and defacing a public monument. "The Hammer Is Coming Down on Outside Criminal Agitators Who Prompted the Destruction of 'Silent Sam,'" Goolsby added on Twitter Friday evening. "Expect more arrests with FELONY charges."

Silent Sam was erected in 1913, the occasion marked by a speech from Ku Klux Klan supporter Julian Carr featuring a fond recollection of "horse-whipp[ing]" a black woman until "her skirts hung in shreds." Carr described his own brutality as a "pleasing duty" and praised Confederate soldiers for helping to ensure "the purest strain of the Anglo Saxon is to be found in the 13 Southern States."

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"I watched it groan and shiver and come asunder," said UNC professor Dwayne Dixon of the statue's fall. "I mean, it feels biblical. It's thundering and starting to rain. It's almost like heaven is trying to wash away the soiled contaminated remains."

Another protest of the monument is expected in Chapel Hill Saturday.