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Three-year-old Mary Walker Lee, Robert E. Lee's great-grand-daughter, then pulled the Confederate flag draped over the sculpture away, and the crowd cheered loudly.
The Robert E. Lee Monument was an outdoor bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his horse Traveller located in Charlottesville, Virginia's Market Street Park (formerly Emancipation Park, and before that Lee Park) in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County Courthouse Historic District.
Sep 18, 2024 · A hundred years ago, a bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee astride his horse Traveller was erected in what was then known as Lee Park in downtown Charlottesville, where it stood...
Dec 23, 2021 · Newspaper accounts from 1887 tell of a capsule, reportedly placed beneath the Lee statue, that contains a rare photo of Abraham Lincoln in his coffin, but no such photo was discovered in the...
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The statue arrived in Richmond by rail on May 4, 1890. [21] Newspaper accounts indicate that 10,000 people helped pull four wagons with the pieces of the monument. The completed statue was unveiled on May 29, 1890. [6] Two of Lee's daughters, Mary Custis Lee and Mildred Childe Lee, attended the dedication. [22]
RICHMOND — When 14-year-old dancers Kennedy George and Ava Holloway heard that the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue was coming down, they knew they had to be there. They headed out in...
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Dec 10, 2021 · Instead of storing a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, officials will melt down the 1,100-pound bronze monument into metal ingots—raw material that can then be used to create new...
