Virginia's Capitol Square, which houses the State Capitol building and the Executive Mansion, is dotted with statues. While they may fade into the background for many, each of these statues has its own history, arising not only from the story of its subject but from the circumstances of its creation. The current debates over Confederate statuary focus mainly on the subject of the statue, while the process by which the statues were conceived, commissioned, created, and erected is often overlooked.

Our first in a series of blog posts, this Statue Story focuses on the piece created by John Henry Foley in 1875 to depict Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2017/10/26/statue-stories-thomas-j-jackson-and-civil-war-remembrance/




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