Another statue: UVA faces its own challenge in who to memorialize, and how
In all the debate over Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, one often-overlooked example has lasted since 1893, and it sits mostly unnoticed by one of the most populated places on UVA Grounds.
“I tend to describe it as ‘hidden in plain sight,’” says history Professor Kirt von Daacke, of the looming statue in the Confederate cemetery bordered by the McCormick Road dorms. “Thousands of students walk by it every day, but it’s not really in our field of vision unless you know to look at it.”
The Confederate cemetery is part of the university graveyard and contains the remains of soldiers who died in the Charlottesville hospital during the Civil War. Presiding over these graves is a statue of a Confederate soldier, whose base reads, “Fate denied them victory but crowned them with glorious immortality.”
It’s a spot that isn’t often mentioned, yet one that marks itself in students’ memories. Fourth-year Nathan John says the statue jarred him when he first encountered it.
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(Charlottesville Weekly)
The Confederate statue in the cemetery at UVA came courtesy of the Ladies Confederate Memorial Association in 1893. Rammelkamp photo.