Alexandria will seek to move Confederate statue and rename Jefferson Davis Highway Thousands of cars in Alexandria pass by the statue of a Confederate soldier. The City Council wants to move it.
A Confederate statue in Alexandria, Va., is the latest memorial associated with the Civil War to be branded "problematic" by Democrats. Alexandria Councilman Justin Wilson (D.) hinted Thursday that the Appomattox statue at the intersection of Washington and Prince Streets in Old Town should be removed.
Regarding The Confederate Statue. From the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System: “The Robert E. Lee Camp introduced legislation into the Virginia House of Delegates, Jan. 9, 1890, to ensure that the statue would never be moved from its location, in the middle of the intersection of Prince and South Washington Streets.
Appomattox is a bronze statue commemorating Confederate soldiers from Alexandria, Virginia who died in the Civil War. 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.
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