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Monument to Emma Sansom. Emma Sansom (June 2, 1847 – August 9, 1900) was an Alabama teenager and farm worker noted for her actions during the American Civil War (1861-1865), during which she assisted the defensive campaign of the mounted cavalry in the Confederate Army's then Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877), during the Streight's Raid by Union Army cavalry under command ...
Around 1899, the Ladies’ Confederate Monument Association began raising funds to erect a monument in St. Louis to soldiers who had fought against the United States. After some $23,000 ($411,305 today [1]) was raised, mostly from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the monument was installed in Forest Park, the city's largest park. It was ...
Emma Sansom and Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument (1907) by UDC, Gadsden Chapter. [40] Turkey Town Monument (1992) by SCV, Turkey Town Valley Camp #1512 [41] Greenville: Butler County Confederate Memorial, "Our Confederate Dead", at Confederate Park (1903) by UDC of Butler County, Alabama, Father Ryan Chapter [42]
Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [13] According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."
View of the Eads Bridge under construction in 1870, listed as a St. Louis Landmark and National Historic Landmark St. Louis Landmark is a designation of the Board of Aldermen of the City of St. Louis for historic buildings and other sites in St. Louis, Missouri. Listed sites are selected after meeting a combination of criteria, such as whether the site is a cultural resource, near a cultural ...
His monument was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1909. Forrest's monument was rededicated by the Emma Sansom Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in a ceremony on Saturday, April 18, 2009 for the 100th anniversary of the first dedication of his monument.
The St Tammany County jury made their decision Friday evening after a five-day trial. Emma was posthumously awarded $29 million for the pain she suffered after she was hit by the car, and her ...
Murder of a man named Henry De Forrest: Broken out of jail by a mob and hanged from a tree. [75] [76] José Chamales: Arthur W. St. Clair: about 40: African American: Hernando: Florida: June 26, 1877: Presiding over an interracial marriage: Shot Justin Arajo: Latin: San Juan Bautista: San Benito: California: July 1877: Shooting a man named ...