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

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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[1] MEMLJ_170820_005.JPG	[2] MEMLJ_170820_011.JPG
[3] MEMLJ_170820_019.JPG	[4] MEMLJ_170820_022.JPG
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[7] MEMLJ_170820_040.JPG	[8] MEMLJ_170820_054.JPG
[9] MEMLJ_170820_061.JPG	[10] MEMLJ_170820_064.JPG
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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
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 unanimously to deconstruct these monuments. 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, was destroyed shortly thereafter. The pedestal was also repeatedly vandalized with politically motivated graffiti.

Inscription

The base of the sculpture featured the following inscription:

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

(West steps:) THE PARTING OF GENERAL LEE AND/ STONEWALL JACKSON ON THE EVE/ OF CHANCELLORSVILLE

(East steps:) GIFT OF J. HENRY FERGUSON OF MARYLAND.

(North steps:) THEY WERE GREAT GENERALS AND/ CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS AND WAGED/ WAR LIKE GENTLEMEN.
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