Looking Back at the Creation of the County’s Confederate Memorials (MD)

[struggle4progress]

Controversial statue of soldier in Rockville is one of several landmarks in area
BY MARK WALSTON
Published: 2015.07.21 10:35

... Here in Montgomery County, a new chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Elijah Veirs White Chapter, was formed in 1911. It was founded in honor of the hundreds of county residents who crossed the Potomac River to join the Southern cause ... The chapter spearheaded a movement to have a monument placed in the courthouse yard in Rockville ... The statue was unveiled on June 3, 1913—the birthday of Jefferson Davis ... The Damascus Coronet Band regaled 3,000 spectators with the playing of “Maryland, My Maryland” ... The lyrics, written by Marylander James Ryder Randall, memorialized the Baltimore riot of 1861, when Southern sympathizers fired upon Union troops marching through town ... It was adopted as the official song of Maryland in 1939 ... County Executive Ike Leggett announced July 17 that the statue will be removed.

http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2015/Looking-Back-at-the-Creation-of-the-Countys-Confederate-Memorials/

[packman]

1. My First job was in Rockville, Md - Montgomery County

Back in '65. I remember that statue of a confed. soldier standing in the center of the town facing South. As a Northern boy, it brought it home to me that I was now in the South. I understand now that it was removed and placed in some courtyard, basically out of sight. In reading the link, it is now fated to be boxed up and stored away completely out of sight.