Hundreds show up to watch Stonewall Jackson statue come down along Monument Avenue

[swimboy]

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch

Hundreds of people gathered at the Stonewall Jackson monument Wednesday about an hour after crews arrived to begin taking down the statue of the Confederate general.

Hundreds of people who worked and lived nearby ran to the scene, cheering on every development by workers.

Read more: https://www.richmond.com/tncms/asset/editorial/4f139f30-c849-54d5-b768-de4ac5a02c22

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Richmond Mayor is removing Confederate statues on Monument Avenue under state emergency measures. Plans to remove all city-owned statues. The Lee statue is owned by the state; removal delayed by court injunction

[underpants]

1. How about THAT

Hi swim boy

I can’t believe I’m seeing this. Amazing.

[swimboy]

5. So exciting and so long in coming!

Our city is changing—finally!

[underpants]

12. 👍

[soothsayer]

2. Bye, Felicia

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Here's a link that will work (+adding a pic)

https://www.richmond.com/news/local/update-hundreds-show-up-to-watch-stonewall-jackson-statue-come-down-along-monument-avenue/article_4f139f30-c849-54d5-b768-de4ac5a02c22.html

(yours is missing the "https:// " )

[swimboy]

4. Thanks so much! n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

9. You are welcome

and I never thought I'd see the day!!!

[Gore1FL]

6. They should have had reenactors dress as confederates and shoot the statue in the arm.

Then they could remove the arm and take down the rest of the statue. It'd be like Chancellorsville all over again.

[greenjar_01]

7. Rally behind the Virginians!

[rkleinberger]

8. Those poor United of Confederacy Daughters...lol! Hopefully, someone will tear down their building

Hopefully, someone will tear down their building soon in Richmond.

[Journeyman]

10. Let us toss it in the river, then rest in the shade of those cool trees. . . .

(A paraphrase of the General's last words as he lay dying, shot by his own soldiers.)

[Paladin]

14. Extra credit for the historical reference.

What's that old saying, something to the effect of "Nothing so became his life as his leaving it."

[oasis]

21. Refers to the Thane of Cawdor in the play "McBeth". Cawdor also a rebel

and traitor.

[Scurrilous]

11. K&R

[ProudMNDemocrat]

13. There is one of him at the Manassas Battlefield as well.

Which is a Museum of sorts, as is Gettysburg.

The moniker..."Stonewall "Jackson was coined during the Battle of 1st Manassas in July of 1861 by one of his underlings.."There he sits upon his horse like a stonewall." Referring to the stoic look on his face and rigid posture. Thomas Jackson died of a gunshot wound by one of his soldiers shot by mistake in Chancelorsville, VA.

[rurallib]

15. So is Trump sending Barr down to arrest the mayor?

not very good snark on my part.

Maybe they could give the statue to Trump and he could haul it around to his rallies?

[swimboy]

16. A group appealed to Trump to intervene

A small number of residents who found themselves to be a very unpopular minority and that group vanished from the internets. Not before we feasted on the irony of Confederate sympathizers calling on the federal government to stymie the will of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. Wasn't he shot by his own troops? In any case a loser, right Drumpf?

[MosheFeingold]

18. Not a loser

To this day, he is remembered (and studied) as probably the preeminent tactical commanders in any war, certainly any American general. He is studied like Rommel throughout the world. He routinely routed better armed and more numerous Union troops.

He did ultimately die from an accidental discharge from a forward picket.

His death is probably what turned the way, allowing the Union to win.

Regarding the man himself, he was, indeed, a slave owner -- his family having about 5 household slaves -- but seemed to prefer to take in cast offs that were considered unfit and that had bad prospects -- i.e., a girl with learning and physical difficulties, older people, that sort of thing. He was apparently so well-liked by his slaves they stayed with him during the war and stayed with his family after, voluntarily.

Flawed, but fascinating, man.

[Evolve Dammit]

19. I'm not fascinated by traitors or slave owners.

[MosheFeingold]

20. Well, I am

Just like I am fascinated by Nazis, people with severe mental illness, and criminals.

Here you have a (by all accounts) very brilliant man and (oddly) very moral man. Yet he was deeply flawed.

It's like studying cancer. You have to look to see what went wrong.