Jefferson Davis Monument (Meadowbrook, Virginia)

Jefferson Davis Monument (Meadowbrook, Virginia)

This statue of Davis was torn down on June 10, 2020 during the protests over the murder of George Floyd. The statue of Vindicatrix (the personification of Southern womanhood) was removed on July 8, 2020. The rest of the monument is pending removal.

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English

Site

1551

1889-12-21

1907-06-03

m x m x m

current,37.558333,-77.46765;

Statue: Edward V. Valentine; monument design by architect William C. Noland

USA

Jefferson Davis Monument (Richmond, Virginia)

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https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/Jefferson_Davis_Monument__Richmond,_Virginia_

Statue - other

The Jefferson Davis Monument Association, United Confederate Veterans, the Chamber of Commerce, and United Daughters of the Confederacy

(Frieze) "This is done not in hostility to others, not to injure any section of the country, not even for our own pecuniary benefit; but from the high and solemn motive of defending and protecting the rights we inherited, and which it is our sacred duty to transmit unshorn to our children." (Left plaque) The Army of the Confederate States [line] From Sumter to Appomattox four years of unflinching struggle against overwhelming odds [line] Glory ineffable these[,] around their dear land wrapping[,] wrapt [sic] around themselves the purple mantle of death. [new line] Dying, they died not at all, but, from the grave and its shadow, valor invincible lifts them glorified ever on high. (Right plaque) The Navy of the Confederate States [line] giving new examples of heroism teaching new methods of warfare it carried the flag of the South to the most distant seas [line] If to die nobly be ever the proudest glory of virtue, this of all men has fortune greatly granted to them, for, yearning with deep desire to clothe their country with freedom now at the last they rest full of an ageless fame [both plaques originally all in caps]

More than $42,000

Virginia

Richmond City

Confederate

Meadowbrook