Richmond's last major Confederate memorial on city property, a statue of Gen. A.P. Hill, was set to come down on Monday morning.
“This is the last stand for the Lost Cause in our city,” Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney said last week after a judge swept aside an effort to claim the statue by a group of people who said they were Hill’s indirect descendants.
What Richmond loses in divisive symbolism it gains in traffic safety, as the need to navigate around the Hill monument has made the intersection one of the city’s most dangerous. A few prominent Confederate symbols remain in Richmond — most notably a trio of statues on Capitol Square outside the State Capitol. The administration of former governor Ralph Northam has said it was too focused on getting the Lee statue down to take on the Capitol Square statues, which would probably require action by the General Assembly. Gov.
It has long been rumored that Hill was buried standing up inside the base of the monument. But news accounts from the time suggest that while he might have been vertical in one of the earlier burials, by the time he got to this spot the remains were little more than bones and tattered cloth.
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