Historic Sites "Appomattox" Confederate Statue. "Appomattox," the seven foot bronze statue erected in 1889 in honor of Alexandria's Confederate dead, is located at the intersection of South Washington and Prince streets where 800 Alexandria troops mustered on May 24, 1861. The names of more than one hundred men who went to war but did not return are engraved on the granite base of the monument.
Thousands of cars in Alexandria pass by the statue of a Confederate soldier. ... (John McDonnell/The Washington Post) By Patricia ... The statue is the only one of a number of historic Civil War ...
city, was added to the east side of the statue in 1900. To learn more about the Civil War in Alexandria, visit Fort Ward Museum & Historic Site, 4301 Braddock Road. OFFICE OF HISTORIC ALEXANDRIA ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA F-HIS-0187 (11/02)
In tribute to Alexandria soldiers who died in the war, the R.E. Lee Camp No. 2 Confederate Veterans commissioned the Alexandria statue, based on Elder’s plaster model of the central figure in ...
In September 2016, the Alexandria Town Council voted to move this statue from its busy crossroads to the nearby Alexandria History Museum - The Lyceum. The state legislature, a few months later, told the council that there was no reason to think the legislature would approve an exemption from a state law that prohibits the relocation of war ...
A soldier from Alexandria, VA, who went Missing In Action (MIA) during the Vietnam War when his helicopter was downed by enemy fire, got a special tribute today. First Lieutenant Lawrence Eugene Lilly was honored at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial at the Mount Vernon Recreation Center in Alexandria during a ceremony at 10 am this morning.
Va. lawmakers seek to move Confederate statue. ... the “context” of the statue as part of Alexandria’s history. ... Appomattox Court House civil war Confederate Confederate Army of ...
At the statue’s base, the names of Alexandrians who died fighting for the Confederacy are list. It was put up in 1889, 24 years after the Civil War ended. RELATED: Park Service says Gettysburg ...
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The symbols of the Confederacy in Alexandria extend far beyond the memorial statue to the Southern war dead that greets northbound travelers on Washington Street in Old Town.
Appomattox is a bronze statue commemorating Confederate soldiers from Alexandria, Virginia It is positioned in the center of the intersection of South Washington Street (Virginia Route 400) and Prince Street in the Old Town neighborhood of Alexandria.
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