Monuments, Statues, and Memorials

The day Virginia took down Confederate statues, a Black church remembered a lynching victim • Virginia Mercury By Jeff Bennett (Editors note: The article mentions 'mobs' many times, but never the political nature of them or the defendants of Benjamin Thomas. Here is an addendum per Grok. "Virginia and Alexandria were under Democratic control. After Reconstruction, Conservative Democrats (later simply Democrats) dominated state and local government and implemented Jim Crow policies. Mayor George L. Simpson, who was in office during the lynching and had earlier dismissed warnings from Black residents, was a Democrat. The city’s white political establishment and newspapers were aligned with that party. In contrast, the Black Alexandrians who organized to protect Thomas—men such as James Turley, Albert Green, John Nelson, and William Washington—were active in the Republican Party, the political home of most African Americans in the city at the time. They were arrested, fined, and in some cases sent to the chain gang for their efforts; no members of the white mob faced charges. Lynchings in late-19th-century Virginia were extra-legal acts of racial terror carried out by white communities in a one-party Democratic South. Historians and city researchers have documented the events, the failure of authorities to protect Thomas, and the broader pattern of impunity, but they have not uncovered named lists of mob participants or their party registrations." alexandriava.gov)

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The Richmond history behind Kehinde Wiley's "Rumors of War" - Axios Richmond By Sabrina Moreno

Final Confederate statues removed from Virginia Capitol Square By Jahd Khalil

UN’s New Token Gesture: Build Statues for Slavery – RedState By Ward Clark

(4) NOVA Campaigns on X: "Endorsed. Every time radical Democrats remove a Civil War statue… governments should remove disgusting, meaningless, expensive modern works of trash adorning public spaces" / X

(4) Park MacDougald on X: "Subscriptions for this statue (ie crowdfunding) started in England in June 1863, a month after Jackson’s death on May 10. According to a contemporary prospectus for the statue, it was meant as “a graceful token of friendly feeling from the old country to our kinsmen across the" / X

Hunter Holmes McGuire statue removed from Virginia Capitol grounds | Fox News By David Marcus

(6) Charlie Hurt on X: "Virginia Democrats tear down statue of doctor who inspired Geneva Conventions rules for protecting doctors, nurses and medics in war zones https://t.co/1iTgNXHOuR" / X

(2) Apple Lamps on X: "Charlotte Scott, a formerly enslaved woman, donated the first $5 she earned in freedom to honor Abraham Lincoln. Other Black Americans, including former slaves and Union veterans, contributed nearly $20,000. The monument depicted Lincoln holding the Emancipation Proclamation as https://t.co/ccKlTHj9nr" / X

(6) Jefferson Davis on X: "Stonewall Jackson Statue (10/30/1875) Sir,—As treasurer of the committee which carried out the statue of Stonewall Jackson lately presented to the State of Virginia, I must offer some remarks upon your leading article on the subject in The Times of to-day. That article offers https://t.co/t8dyPK1ESo" / X

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(4) Geoff Graham on X: "In 1855, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson founded a Bible school for free black children and slaves where he and other volunteers taught them to read. He taught there regularly until the war, then continued funding it until he was killed. Among the six slaves he owned was one who" / X

(4) TJ Martinell on X: "I know I'm a Yankee whose Illinois ancestors fought for the Union, but we had this thing before Ellis Islanders showed up called "national reconciliation" where we allowed the South to honor its dead as a way of moving beyond a tragic fratricide in a way no other nation has done." / X

Final Confederate statues removed from Virginia Capitol Square By Jahd Khalil

(2) David Marcus on X: "This man, Hunter Holmes McGuire, was a surgeon in the Confederate army who saved countless lives, on both sides. He later served as president of the American Medical Association. This is madness." / X

Three Confederate monuments removed from Capitol Square By Sarah Chakales

Ashlee Vance on X: "Four frenchmen have gone to Starbase to build a 50-foot, bronze Prometheus in honor of @SpaceX. They've spent $1m on the project and encountered corndogs for the first time along the way. We went to Starbase to find out what @AtelierMissor_ is all about and to see them in https://t.co/VgDclL3owT" / X

The original headstone of... - The Generals Redoubt | Facebook The original headstone of Traveller, Robert E. Lee’s beloved horse, is nowhere to be seen — three years after Washington and Lee officials uprooted it and promised to place it in a new permanent Chapel exhibit.

How a Neglected Plaza Now Immortalizes Forgotten American Heroes | Matthew Taylor | EpochTV By Jan Jakelic - Matthew Taylor has transformed the long-neglected Freedom Plaza with a beautiful new memorial celebrating Revolutionary War heroes.

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