British Tribute to Virginia Valor”
Unveiling the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Statue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16768917 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel Graber (University of Iowa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-164 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Nineteenth Century History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-4658 • E-ISSN: 1743-7903 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14664650802021733 |
| OpenAlex | W2037110259 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
This article outlines the political agendas surrounding the dedication of the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Statue, an early Confederate monument commissioned in Britain in 1863 and unveiled with much fanfare in Richmond, Virginia in 1875. It argues that the statue's British provenance made it an ideal means of expressing the distinctive claims of the Conservative Party of Virginia. By commemorating both General Jackson and Britain's Confederate sympathizers, modernizers in the Conservative Party presented themselves as representatives of an Anglo‐Saxon Christian value system, guardians of the "Old Dominion's" immemorial character, and defenders of political views that held national and international significance. Thus the Conservatives dedicated an international monument to a transatlantic and implicitly racist cultural tradition as part of their larger effort to facilitate Virginia's integration into the reconstructed national union on terms favorable to the former Confederates
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Statue · Tribute · West virginia · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Archaeology and Natural History · History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |