The Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument, often referred to simply as the Jackson and Lee Monument or Lee and Jackson Monument, was a double
equestrian statue
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of
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Stonewall Jackson and
Robert E. Lee, formerly located on the west side of the
Wyman Park Dell in
Charles Village in
Baltimore
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Maryland
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, alongside a forested hill, similar to the topography of
Chancellorsville, Virginia, where Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee met before the
Battle of Chancellorsville
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in 1863. The statue was removed on August 16, 2017, on the order of
Baltimore City Council, but the base still remains. The monument is in storage and some city council members have called for all
Confederate monuments in the state to be destroyed.
The area surrounding the old monument was rededicated as
Harriet Tubman Grove in March 2018.
Significance
The Jackson and Lee Monument was the first double equestrian statue in the United States.
Artist
Laura Gardin Fraser
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was the only woman sculptor selected out of five other men to create the monument. Notable architect
John Russell Pope
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was commissioned to design the base of the monument.
Background
Funding for the statue was secured by
Colonial Trust Company owner J. Henry Ferguson before he died in 1928. Ferguson provided $100,000 for the erection of the monument. It was dedicated in 1948 in a ceremony at which
Governor William Preston Lane Jr. and
Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. (the father of
Nancy Pelosi) spoke.
The monument was located on the west side of the Wyman Park Dell along Art Museum Drive from its dedication until its removal by the Baltimore City Government.
Removal
After the 2015
Charleston church shooting,
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake organized a commission to evaluate removal of the city's four confederate monuments. In January 2016, the commission decided that the Jackson and Lee Monument, along with the
Roger B. Taney Sculpture by
William Henry Rinehart
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in Mount Vernon Place would be removed.
On August 14, 2017, the Baltimore City Council voted unanimously to deconstruct these two monuments along with the
Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument and the
Confederate Women's Monument
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. The Jackson and Lee Statue was subsequently removed by Whiting Turner construction on August 16, 2017, but the base remains intact. Activists replaced the monument with a rendition of a pregnant African-American woman, created by artist Pablo Machioli, which was destroyed shortly thereafter. The pedestal was also repeatedly vandalized with politically motivated graffiti.
Inscription
The base of the sculpture featured the following inscription:
See also
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List of Confederate monuments and memorials
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List of public art in Baltimore
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New Orleans Confederate monuments removal
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Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
More than 100 monuments and memorials to the Confederate States of America (CSA; the Confederacy) and associated figures have been removed, all but five since 2015. Some have been removed by state and local governments; others have been torn do ...
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Roger B. Taney Monument (Baltimore)
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