Statue of Confederate soldier erected in Norfolk

[Canebrake Rifle Guards]

Interesting article.

NORFOLK - The Confederate Monument was naked for almost a century.

Originally installed in Berkley in 1912, the 13-foot-tall granite pedestal, flanked by four stone cannonballs, was supposed to be topped with a statue of a soldier. But the now-defunct chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy that commissioned it ran out of money.

That's always bothered Alma Lewis, who counts 10 Confederate veterans among her ancestors. She is a member of the Pickett-Buchanan chapter of the United Daughters, which assumed responsibility for the statue in 1987, when it was moved to Elmwood Cemetery to make way for a new road.

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Greg Starbuck

[Steamboat Willie]

Re: Statue of Confederate soldier erected in Norfolk

Is a Chinese granite statue really what the fallen dead were pining for?

Personally, I like the symbolic nature of an empty pedestal as it projects more than any smiling soldier would.

I appreciate what was attempted, it just seems that if they put a little more thought into it they could honor them in a better, albeit different, way.

Rick Gath

[Wounded_Zouave]

Re: Statue of Confederate soldier erected in Norfolk

Is a Chinese granite statue really what the fallen dead were pining for? Personally, I like the symbolic nature of an empty pedestal, as it symbolizes more than any smiling soldier would. I appreciate what was attempted, it just seems that if they put a little more thought into things, they could honor them in a better, albeit different, way. Rick Gath

At least they put up a statue looks like Victorian era art. A more recent attempt to look Victorian and failing miserably can be found at Shiloh:



Please... no more battlefield monuments erected by modern people. They really suck:



And then there is the big general on the itty-bitty horse:



Lesson: Don't start something that can't be finished.