TOP via Philip O’Connor / BELOW via Mark Kronenthal
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Overlooked RVA has a great history of the monument:
One such veteran was Wilfred Cutshaw, a former colonel who’d lost a leg in an 1865 skirmish but by 1894 had become Richmond’s principal city planner, already responsible for a comprehensive redesign of the city’s layout during the Reconstruction. As an impressionable engineering student at VMI in the 1850s, he’d learned about Pompey’s Pillar in Alexandria, Egypt, and its grandeur – utterly imagined, of course – would retain a curious stranglehold on his vision for Richmond more than 30 years later.
Evidently prominent in that vision was a monument honoring veterans conspicuously like himself. The Monument to Confederate War Dead had already been built in Hollywood Cemetery, and a statue honoring Robert E. Lee was soon to be unveiled on what would become Monument Avenue, but in 1889 he put forth plans before a handpicked committee to add yet another local tribute to the Confederate cause.
Want to go back in time? Get a heavy dose of historical context from this souvenir pamphlet from the unveiling of the monument in 1894 (PDF).
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21 comments
Shame. Beautiful monument on a beautiful vista.
Richmond monument dedicated to Confederate soldiers and sailors vandalized
http://wric.com/2015/07/03/richmond-monument-dedicated-to-confederate-soldiers-and-sailors-vandalized/
*slow clap* Thank you RGB for being rude.
RBGz?
Red blue green z?
Real Bad Ganstaz?
RT @chpn: Confederate Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument tagged overnight http://t.co/6uvueWcpeq
More tagging. Please, if you comment your opinions may differ. Express your opinion, but be appropriate. We’re… http://t.co/8nFZ2bn6MP
Maybe a Dead Prez reference.
RT @chpn: Confederate Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument tagged overnight http://t.co/6uvueWcpeq
RT @chpn: Confederate Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument tagged overnight http://t.co/6uvueWcpeq
RT @chpn: Confederate Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument tagged overnight http://t.co/6uvueWcpeq
Thank you so much for linking that pamphlet. Fascinating stuff. Hope the monument gets cleaned up soon.
Vandalism accomplishes nothing good.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg….love her, but no, she shouldn’t be out tagging…
I mean Ruth Bader Ginsburg is notorious… She should know better when and where to express her First Amendment rights.
Apparently the city has someone at the monument cleaning it.
when the monument is gone all of life’s problems will be solved
RT @chpn: Confederate Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument tagged overnight http://t.co/6uvueWcpeq
“Ginz” as she’s known on the streets…
With all the video Cams, these vandals should not be all that difficult to catch and they should be made to repair the damages