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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]
Sep 14, 2023 · In October 2020, the New York Times named the Lee Monument as the most influential piece of post-World War II protest art in the country. Simultaneously in June 2020, Governor Ralph Northam’s administration was trying to remove the equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee from the Lee Monument.
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.
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.
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...
- Brigit Katz
Jun 7, 2019 · This curious, northward-looking image of the Robert E. Lee Monument from a century ago may be the work of the Cook Studios, whose photographs are the subject of a retrospective exhibition up through Nov. 10 at The Valentine museum.
Jul 2, 2019 · Ever since Nazis with tiki torches marched in Charlottesville, outraged over a college’s decision to remove a monument of Robert E. Lee, it’s routine now for me to get questions on my tours about the fate of Confederate monuments in Savannah.
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