MONUMENT PROFILE
- Battlefield: City of Richmond, Virginia
- Location: Monument Avenue and Lombardy Street intersection at Stuart Circle
- Map Coordinates: 37° 33.148′ N, 77° 27.474′ W
- Added to National Register of Historic Places: January 17, 1991, #90002098
MONUMENT DETAILS
- Origin: Stuart Monumental Association, formed April 1866
- Later in 1892, known as the Veteran Cavalry Association of the Army of Northern Virginia
- Artist: Frederick Moynihan of New York
- Cost: $30,000.00 in 1907
- Dedicated: May 30, 1907
- Restoration: Completed in 2006 at a cost of about $35,000
- Organized by a campaign by the Stuart-Mosby Historic Society
- Dimensions: Equestrian bronze statue- h. 15 ft.; Granite pedestal- h. 7½ ft.
- Description: Stuart is turned in the saddle facing east while the horse faces north with it's right front foot is raised.
- Remarks: The Monument was unveiled by 8-year-old Virginia Stuart Waller, the General’s granddaughter.
- Sculpture Removed from Base: July 7, 2020 at 10:44 am by emergency order of Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney citing a "severe, immediate and growing threat to public safety" and taken to an undisclosed location in unknown condition.
MONUMENT TEXT
MAJ:GEN:J.E.B. STUART
COMMANDING CAVALRY CORPS ARMY NORTHERN VIRGINIA CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA *** THIS STATUE ERECTED BY HIS COMRADES AND THE CITY OF RICHMOND A.D. 1906 |
BORN IN PATRICK COUNTY, VA. FEB 6 1833
DIED IN RICHMOND, VA. MAY 12 1864 AGED 31 YEARS --- MORTALLY WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE OF YELLOW TAVERN MAY 11, 1864 --- HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY AND SAVED THIS CITY FROM CAPTURE. |
“TELL
GEN. STUART TO ACT ON HIS OWN JUDGEMENT AND DO WHAT HE THINKS BEST, I HAVE IMPLICIT CONFIDENCE IN HIM” --- GEN. T. J. ‘STONEWALL’ JACKSON IN TURNING OVER THE COMMAND OF HIS TROOPS TO GEN. STUART AFTER BEING WOUNDED AT CHANCELLORSVILLE, MAY 3, 1863 |
“HIS GRATEFUL
COUNTRYMEN WILL MOURN HIS LOSS AND CHERISH HIS MEMORY. TO HIS COMRADES IN ARMS HE HAS LEFT THE PROUD RECOLLECTION OF HIS DEEDS AND THE INSPIRING INFLUENCE OF HIS EXAMPLE” --- GEN. R. E. LEE, ANNOUNCING THE DEATH OF GEN. STUART TO HIS ARMY - MAY 20, 1864. |
MONUMENT DEDICATION
“In the presence of a great multitude of people, and beneath cloudless skies, with the thunder of cannon, the waving of flags, the singing of children and the playing of bands, the equestrian statue of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart was unveiled yesterday by a granddaughter of the world-famous cavalry leader. . .The exercises of the monument were preceded by one of the most notable parades ever seen in Richmond, in which nearly 10,000 men participated, the column taking over an hour to pass a given point.”
-- The Times Dispatch, May 31, 1907
On hand for the dedication was: Mrs. Flora Stuart and Mrs. Anna Jackson.
A Dedication Address for the J.E.B. Stuart Monument was given by Judge Theodore S. Garnett.
Was the J.E.B. Stuart Monument a Cheap Imitation?
A furor arose over the design of the J.E.B. Stuart Equestrian Sculpture in 1907, because it appears that it's almost a direct copy of the statue of Sir James Outram, by John Henry Foley created in 1861 and on display in Kolkata, India. Some accused artist Frederick Moynihan of making an exact copy of the Outram Statue and just adding a hat, a cape, and a beard!
Portrait of the Outram Statue by Roffe, 1875.
ADDITIONAL PHOTOS
Photo from the Monument Dedication, taken May 30.
Photo from The Times Dispatch,
Published on May 31, 1907
LOC Photo, taken between 1906 and 1910.
Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart Historical Marker
(A historical marker located in Richmond in Richmond, Virginia.)
www.hmdb.org
J.E.B. Stuart Monument on Monument Avenue in Richmond
J.E.B. Stuart on Monument Avenue in Richmond
www.virginiaplaces.org
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