Saturday, November 22, 2008

JEFFERSON DAVIS STATUE

JEFFERSON DAVIS STATUE
By WILL JONES
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-11-19-0131.html

A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis apparently won't stand -- or be stored -- at the American Civil War Center, after all.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans are talking to two other sites about the life-size bronze statue after talks with the American Civil War Center at Tredegar Iron Works broke down, said Brag Bowling, a Richmond resident and board member of the Southern heritage group.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans had offered to donate the statue, and museum officials had said they would accept it. That decision, however, came with no guarantee of where or whether the statue might be displayed or how it might be interpreted.