The last shots of the Civil War were fired nearly 160 years ago — but a modern-day battle continues over the fate of a statue honoring one of its key figures.
ARARAT, Va. — On a Patrick County hillside Saturday afternoon, people could close their eyes and easily imagine they were somewhere such as Manassas or Antietam…
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In this June 1, 2020 photo, Black Lives Matter protesters surround the now removed Monument Avenue statue to Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News)
Richmond City Council is moving forward with selling or transferring the Confederate monuments taken down last year.
In response to nightly racial justice protests in the city and beyond, Mayor Levar Stoney ordered the removal of all of Richmond’s public Confederate monuments and iconography in July 2020. By that point protesters had already toppled three Confederate statues: Jefferson Davis on Monument Ave., Williams Carter Wickham in Monroe Park, and the Howitzer Battalion memorial on VCU’s campus. Protesters also toppled a monument of Christopher Columbus in Byrd Park and threw the statue in the pond.
April 09, 2021
ARARAT, Va. After months of indecision concerning the fate of Confederate statues taken down last year in Richmond, an answer could come soon for groups wanting to acquire them for placement in new homes.
This includes a large bronze likeness of Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart sought for a location in his native Patrick County not far from Mount Airy.
“We know how to get it done and we think we have the finances to make it happen,” Tom Bishop of the J.E.B. Stuart Birthplace Preservation Trust Inc. in Ararat, said of plans to move the statue there if allowed.