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MD -- Baltimore -- Memorial: Lee-Jackson @ Wyman Park Dell:

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Description of Pictures: The Confederate memorials in Baltimore were removed on August 16, 2017, caving to modern sensibilities. These photos were taken a couple of days later.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MEMLJ_170820_005.JPG: The memorial, now removed, had graffiti on the base. Here: "End White Supremacy Now"
2. MEMLJ_170820_019.JPG: They Were Great Generals and Christian Soldiers and Waged War Like Gentlemen. -- Ferguson According to http://baltimoreplanning.wixsite.com/monumentcommission/leeandjacksonmonument The funds for the sculpture came from J. Henry Ferguson, the banker who organized the Colonial Trust Company. In his will, he left specific instructions for a monument of his childhood heroes, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, which was gifted to the City of Baltimore. Although Ferguson died in 1928, the sculpture was not dedicated until 1948 due to various factors, including World War II.
3. MEMLJ_170820_022.JPG: So Great Is My Confidence In General Lee That I Am Willing To Follow Him [Blindfolded *** Straight As The Needle To The Pole, Jackson Advanced To The Execution Of My] Purpose
4. MEMLJ_170820_028.JPG: Rebel scum were racist pigs
5. MEMLJ_170820_032.JPG: Black lives matter
6. MEMLJ_170820_040.JPG: [So Great] Is My Confidence In General Lee That I Am Willing To Follow Him [Blindfolded *** Straight As The Needle To The Pole, Jackson Advanced To The Execution Of My Purpose] The Parting Of General Lee And Stonewall Jackson On The Eve Of Chancellorsville
7. MEMLJ_170820_054.JPG: [So Great Is My Confidence In General Lee That I Am Willing To Follow Him] Blindfolded *** Straight As [The Needle To The Pole, Jackson Advanced To The Execution Of My Purpose]
8. MEMLJ_170820_064.JPG: [So Great Is My Confidence In General Lee That I Am Willing To Follow Him Blindfolded *** Straight As] The Needle To The Pole, Jackson Advanced To The Execution Of My] Purpose
9. MEMLJ_170820_068.JPG: [So Great Is My Confidence In General Lee That I Am Willing To Follow Him Blindfolded *** Straight As] The Needle To The Pole, Jackson Advanced To The Execution Of My] Purpose Gift Of J. Henry Ferguson Of Maryland
10. MEMLJ_170820_073.JPG: Resist
11. MEMLJ_170820_134.JPG: About the Park
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Wikipedia Description: Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument
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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 of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, formerly located on the west side of the Wyman Park Dell in Charles Village in Baltimore, Maryland, alongside a forested hill, similar to the topography of Chancellorsville, Virginia, where Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee met before the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863. The statue was removed on August 16, 2017, on the order of Baltimore City Council, but the base still remains. The present location of the monument is unknown and some city council members called for all Confederate monuments to be destroyed.

Significance

The Jackson and Lee Monument was the first double equestrian statue in the United States. Artist Laura Gardin Fraser was the only woman sculptor selected out of five other men to create the monument. Notable architect John Russell Pope 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. 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 William Henry Rhinehart's Roger B. Taney Sculpture in Mount Vernon Place would be removed.

On August 15, 2017, Baltimore city council voted unan ...More...
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2017 photos: Overnight trips this year: Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA, a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin), New York City, and my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona). Ego strokes: For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about: "Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo), "The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy), "The American Spirit" (David McCullough), "Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert), "The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and "The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover). Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.
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