REBEL FELL
Aug 12, 2020
3 minutes
By Camille Squires
In 1865, Edward Virginius Valentine returned from Europe to his hometown of Richmond, Virginia—the former Confederate capital—and began using his training in classical sculpture to enshrine the myth of the Lost Cause. Over the next few decades he made a career of sculpting monuments to defenders of slavery, building tributes to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. And he made the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond,
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