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Renamed "Confederate Park" in 1923 at the request of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. A Confederate soldier statue was erected in 1910 at the intersection of North Main Avenue and West Capital Street adjacent to the Park. It was destroyed on July 16, 2016, when a policeman accidentally crashed his patrol car into the monument.
Loreta Janeta Velazquez a.k.a. "Lieutenant Harry Buford" (June 26, 1842 – c. 1897) – A Cuban woman who donned Confederate garb and served as a Confederate officer and spy during the war. [25] [26] Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (1843–1864) served with the Union Army under the alias of Lyons Wakeman and Edwin R. Wakeman. Her letters remain one of ...
Type 1 was a Confederate soldier on a column with his weapon at parade rest, or weaponless and gazing into the distance. These accounted for approximately half the monuments studied. They are, however, the most popular among the courthouse monuments. Type 2 was a Confederate soldier on a column with rifle ready, or carrying a flag or bugle.
A controversial statue of a Confederate soldier has been taken down by officials from the center of a prominent square in Georgia, leading to protests in the area. The removal of the monument at ...
Figures on the Confederate statue include a Black woman depicted as “Mammy” and an enslaved man following his owner to war. ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A Confederate memorial is to be removed from ...
Workers secure the statue of Confederate Naval officer Matthew Fontaine Maury to a truck on Monument Avenue on Thursday, July 2, 2020, in Richmond, Va. Maury was better known for his work in ...
The Confederate Women's Monument was an outdoor memorial by J. Maxwell Miller, [1] installed in Baltimore, in the U.S. state of Maryland in 1917. [ 2 ] The statue was removed in August 2017.
The statue was built in 1914, and includes depicitions of enslaved African Americans. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...