Saturday, January 22, 2011

Monument to the Lost Cause

ROBERT E. LEE MONUMENT, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, JANUARY 11, 2011

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This 16-foot bronze monument to Robert E. Lee, sculpted by Alexander Doyle, was erected atop a 60-foot Doric column of Tennessee marble in 1884 at what is now called Lee Circle on the St. Charles streetcar line in New Orleans. It is naturally a shrine holy to cultists of the Lost Cause, but it is also an important and impressive (not to mention photogenic) relic of American history.

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