Monument Monday - October 1, 2018

[Jimklag]

Granite and bronze monument at Fort Stedman, Petersburg National Battlefield.

The full text of the monument plaque:

Fort Stedman​

In the last grand offensive movement of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, Fort Stedman, with adjacent works, was captured at 4:30 A.M., March 25, 1865, by a well selected body of Confederates, under the command of General John B. Gordon.

An advance was made with great determination, over the broken Union lines, then through the ravine, and up the rising ground to the eastward, for the purpose of cutting the U.S. Military R.R. and thus make successful the Confederate plan of severing the Army of the Potomac and destroying its base of supplies at City Point.

This movement was checked and the direct assault in the recapture of these embattlements, was made by the Third Division Ninth Corps Army of the Potomac, in whose memory this tablet is erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

 

[Jimklag]

Monument at the Crater - Petersburg - 48th Pennsylvania. Stone Sentinels

 

[Jimklag]

A non-Civil War monument. Statue of James Monroe at his Ash Lawn - Highland home near his friend Thomas Jefferson's little mountain.

 

[Jimklag]

Another non-Civil War monument just a few miles up the mountain from the Monroe Statue. Thomas Jefferson's memorial at his gravesite is located in a family cemetery just downhill from his home at Monticello.

 

[Jimklag]

One of my favorite monuments anywhere. The U.S. Grant memorial at the capitol building in Washington, D.C. Photos "borrowed" from Google images except for the middle phot.

 

[bdtex]

Andrews Raiders Monument,Chattanooga National Cemetery, 6/11/2016:

 

[Jimklag]

Andrews Raiders Monument,Chattanooga National Cemetery, 6/11/2016:

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Another favorite of mine. Thanks for posting this one, Bobby. I only have 35mm pictures of it.

 

[James N.]

This week for Monument Monday I thought I'd feature the imposing Confederate Monument at Winchester, Virginia's Stonewall Cemetery, seen here in photos from several yeas past. Above, my most recent visit, this April; below, from 2015.

Here's how I described it in a 2013 thread featuring the photo below, taken on a visit in 1997: "The remains of over 800 unknown soldiers from unmarked graves throughout the area were relocated in the burial mound topped by the Confederate Memorial above. Nearly 2,000 identified also rest here, like The Brothers Ashby, Brig. Gen. Turner and his brother Richard; Maj. Gen. John G. Walker; Brig. Gen's. Archibald Godwin and Robert D. Johnston; and Colonels George S. and Waller T. Patton."

The Stonewall Cemetery is on land crossed by the armies of both sides during the third and final Battle of Winchester, fought Sept. 19, 1864; other than ones from that particular struggle, most unknown Confederate dead buried here were relocated postwar from other nearby battlefields, most notably Fishers Hill, also in Sept., 1864, and Cedar Creek in October of that year. Below, the towering Confederate Monument is visible from all points within the cemetery and its surroundings.

 

[Jimklag]

This week for Monument Monday I thought I'd feature the imposing Confederate Monument at Winchester, Virginia's Stonewall Cemetery, seen here in photos from several yeas past. Above, my most recent visit, this April; below, from 2015.

Here's how I described it in a 2013 thread featuring the photo below, taken on a visit in 1997: "The remains of over 800 unknown soldiers from unmarked graves throughout the area were relocated in the burial mound topped by the Confederate Memorial above. Nearly 2,000 identified also rest here, like The Brothers Ashby, Brig. Gen. Turner and his brother Richard whose monument is in the foreground below. Other notables include Maj. Gen. John G. Walker; Brig. Gen's. Archibald Godwin and Robert D. Johnston; and Colonels George S. and Waller T. Patton."

The Stonewall Cemetery is on land crossed by the armies of both sides during the third and final Battle of Winchester, fought Sept. 19, 1864; other than ones from that particular struggle, most unknown Confederate dead buried here were relocated postwar from other nearby battlefields, most notably Fishers Hill, also in Sept., 1864, and Cedar Creek in October of that year. Below, the towering Confederate Monument is visible from all points within the cemetery and its surroundings.

I really like that last picture with the Confederate monument in the background.

 

[Seduzal]

Thanks for sharing this awesome photos.

 

[NH Civil War Gal]

James N. what are the dark stones on the left side of the photo and then all the white stones on the right and in the far distance? Any significance?

 

[JOHN42768]

All great

 

[jackt62]

Grant's Tomb, New York City

 

[Jimklag]

Marker in the woods on the Gordon Flank Attack trail at the Wilderness.

https://www.routeyou.com/en-us/route/view/2049009/walking-route/gordon-flank-attack-trail

 

[Cavalry Charger]

This is my all time favorite of Grant's tomb taken when I was there in June

 

[Jimklag]

Plaque next to the Longstreet monument at Gettysburg.

 

[James N.]

James N. what are the dark stones on the left side of the photo and then all the white stones on the right and in the far distance? Any significance?

Unfortunately, at this distance I don't remember, but the cemetery is further divided into plots and I think that's what's going on here. The monument itself tops a burial mound containing 800-900 and those whiter stones near it mark additional and possibly unknown graves as well. The darker ones *may* be either graves of known patients from area hospitals; a state section for dead from one state; or, more likely, graves of postwar Confederate veterans.

 

[James N.]

… Their are parties out there that want to erase (in the name of "racial equality" any mention of the Confederacy.

A fact many of us here also decry - welcome to the forums and thanks for your input from the host of the Stonewall Jackson Forum!

 

[Jimklag]

Madison Wisconsin:
Tuesday night in Wisconsin the Madison City Council voted yet again to remove the Confederate monument in Forest Hill Cemetery, a direct rebellion to last month's decision by the Landmarks Commission which had denied the City's application to remove the monument the first time they voted to remove it.

Newly appointed District 13 Alderman Allen Arntsen requested that the Council reconsider the removal, disregarding the decision of the Landmark Commission. He said removing the monument, which includes the names of 140 Confederate soldiers there buried, would be a step toward inclusiveness and improving racial equity in the city of Madison.

"The monument that was put up, the cenotaph, is not a monument to the Confederacy," the Landmark's Commission determined. "It doesn't extol the virtues of slavery, or racism or the Confederate cause."

In April, the City Council approved removing the large stone that is located in an area of the cemetery called Confederate Rest. The monument also recognizes Alice Whiting Waterman, who cared for the graves and was later buried in Confederate Rest in 1897. But the City cannot lawfully remove the monument without the approval of the Landmarks Commission because Forest Hill Cemetery is a designated city landmark. But in voting yet again to remove the monument, the City Council is signaling that it will now remove the monument even without the lawful approval to do so.

Moorhead Minnesota: The Clay County Historical Society has decided to create a bronze statute of a Black Unon Army Veteran who moved to Moorhead after the Civil War and opened a barber shop. Now, considering the number of Ole's Johans, Ivans and other who served in the Union Army / Navy, I find this memorial is misplaced (just my personal opinion) but not without some merit (slight merit).

Memphis Tennessee is (City Council) is attempting to remove the monument (and graves) of LtGen Natahniel Bedford Forrest from what is called Forrest Park. I have read what he stated to his troops before their final discharge. I am here to tell you he asked them to put aside their differences, to step forward and to be as good a citizens as they had been soldiers. His speech is just about enough to bring tears to ones eyes.

Their are parties out there that want to erase (in the name of "racial equality" any mention of the Confederacy.

This is really not the place to discuss monument removal. This thread is for photographs of existing monuments (confederate or Union) only. Discussion of monument removal is limited to moderated threads. This thread is not meant to be controversial in any way. Your cooperation would be appreciated.

 

[SeaSoldier]

Thank You Sir!