Appomattox is a bronze statue commemorating Confederate soldiers from Alexandria, Virginia It is positioned in the center of the intersection of South Washington Street (Virginia Route 400) and Prince Street in the Old Town neighborhood of Alexandria. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The Confederate Statue Marker Inscription. The unarmed Confederate soldier standing in the intersection of Washington and Prince Streets marks the location where units from Alexandria left to join the Confederate Army on May 24, 1861.
The R.E. Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans commissioned the statue, sculpted by M. Casper Buberl based on a soldier in the battlefield painting by John A. Elder. The finished statue was so well-received that replicas began popping up throughout the South and the R.E. Lee Camp applied for and received a copyright for the statuary design in 1892.
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William Leal of Richmond, Virginia. On November 5, 1888, the R. E. Lee camp voted to seek approval from Alexandria's City Council to place the statue at the intersection of Washington and Prince Streets, the point from which the Alexandria troops left the city. The Council quickly granted permission. The dedication ceremony was held on May 24, 1889.
The statue has long been a sore point for some Alexandria residents, who say it glorifies the army that fought to retain slavery in the Civil War. Others call it a legitimate historical marker, occupying the spot where a local regiment mustered to retreat from the city just before Union troops seized Alexandria in 1861.
A statue of an unarmed confederate soldier stands at the intersection of Prince and Washington streets in Alexandria, Va. The monument titled 'Appomattox,' was erected in 1889 as a memorial to soldiers from Alexandria who were killed in the civil war. The statue marks the spot were soldiers from Alexandria left to join the Confederate Army.
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