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The George Davis Monument is a monument to attorney and Confederate politician George Davis that was erected in Wilmington, North Carolina by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It was removed by the City of Wilmington in August 2021. Davis, a railroad attorney and minor local figure before the war, was a pro-Union member of the Whig Party.
The statue was sculpted by Francis Herman Packer, a native of Germany who lived on Long Island, New York, and was a student of Augustus Saint-Gaudens.. A decade earlier, Packer had been hired by a United Daughters of Confederacy chapter in Wilmington to sculpt the Confederate George Davis Monument (removed, August 2021), located one block to the north and dedicated in 1911.
Signal Corps: Lt George C. Bain; Cape Fear River batteries [1] Col Peter C. Gaillard 13th Battalion North Carolina Light/Heavy Artillery Company D (Adams' Battery): Lt Samuel H. Forbes; 68th North Carolina Troops, Company C (detachment) McDougald's Company (detachment)
Wilmington, located 30 miles upstream from the mouth of the Cape Fear River (which flows into the Atlantic Ocean), was among the Confederacy's more important cities. It ranked 13th in size in the CSA (although only 100th in the pre-war United States) with a population of 9,553 according to the 1860 census, making it nearly the same size as Atlanta, Georgia, at the time.
Wilmington on Fire, a documentary about the Wilmington insurrection directed by Christopher Everett, was released in 2015. [173] [174] David Zucchino won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy (2020). The book uses contemporary newspaper accounts, diaries ...
Before its demolition in January, the building at 208 Market St. in downtown Wilmington had seen its share of theaters, nightclubs and live music. By 1990, it was nearing the end of its theater stage.
The series was filmed in Wilmington beginning last ... Filmed in NC, other ties to state “George & Tammy” was one of 71 productions to file registration paperwork for film activity in ...
George Davis (March 1, 1820 – February 23, 1896) was a Confederate politician and railroad counsel who served as attorney general of the Confederate States for 480 days in 1864 and 1865. A skilled orator, he gave a notable public speech in March 1861 in which he argued that North Carolina should secede from the United States of America to ...