DailyKenn.com — Now that White House occupant Joe Biden has reversed Donald Trump's ban on disturbing monuments, some local judiciaries have resumed removing honors to fallen heroes; Confederates in particular.
One of those is the grave site of Confederate General A.P. Hill. The deceased general is buried under the monument that honors his memory. It is located in Richmond, Virginia where the mayor has vowed to rip down all monuments honoring the Confederacy.
Take aways...
• By removing Confederate monuments and renaming place names, the far-left is depriving future Americans from access to a perspective of history. That leaves history to be written by the far left.
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney said all Confederate statues in the city will be coming down, but one monument could present a unique challenge.
The remains of Confederate General A.P. Hill are buried underneath his statue at the intersection of W. Laburnum Ave. and Hermitage Road. According to Hill’s will, he wanted to be buried in Richmond at his memorial.
“This is the only Confederate monument in Richmond in which someone is buried, so it’s essentially a gravesite,” said Bob Balster, president of the Hermitage Road Historic District Association.
Hill, who was from Culpeper, became a high-ranking general in the Confederate Army and was killed in battle in 1865.
“He had left in his will that he wanted to be buried in Richmond. I’m not sure why Richmond because he wasn’t from Richmond and didn’t have any particularly strong Richmond roots that I’m aware of,” Balster told 8News.
More than 25 years after his death, the A.P. Hill Memorial was
erected in 1892. Confederate veterans who served under Hill raised money
for the monument and the land was donated by Lewis Ginter.
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