On July 18, 1863, one of the first all-Black army regiments to serve in the Civil War stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina.
Critics of the statues have said they celebrate racism and tell a false narrative of the Civil War, and in the case of Columbus and other colonial figures, genocide against Indigenous populations.
He sculpted a number of other war memorials, including the famous Royal Artillery Memorial in Hyde Park in London. His statues are evocative of war during the early part of the 20th century and ...
EDENTON, N.C.—Rod Phillips and Michael Dean, a pair of white 70-something retirees, take opposing sides in the Civil War ... The statue is, plain and simple, a memorial to the 47 soldiers ...