![]() You may remember that in 1851 the New York Herald Tribune under the sponsorship and publishing of Horace Greeley, employed as its London correspondent an obscure journalist by the name of Karl Marx. You bear heavy responsibilities these days and an article I read some time ago reminded me of how particularly heavily the burdens of present day events bear upon your profession. I appreciate very much your generous invitation to be here tonight. Saunders’ email also have not issued any public statement concerning the shrine. The members of City Council who were included on Mr. Stoney, whose tenure as mayor includes the removal of Confederate statues and icons from public spaces, did not respond to a Free Press query about whether he supported the shrine. In an April 19 email, he noted that the gate into the shrine “has been taken off, and the shrine is open to the public. Sarahan has followed the shrine’s development. Sarahan has found a statement from DPU that contradicts that assertion.Īccording to DPU, the city “relocated the graves to the rear of the site several decades prior to erecting the utility building.” In other words, there are not supposed to be any remains on the property. Saunders’ claim that the property was a mass grave, Mr. Shift hospital set up in a house that still exists and sits across Wise Street from the substation.ĭespite Mr. The now 84-year-old marker remembers 100 or so wounded South Carolina Confederate soldiers who died at a make. ![]() A search of records could not turn up a similar instance in which the city spent taxpayer dollars in response to a single resident’s request for a personal benefit.Īs the Free Press reported in the April 6-8 edition, the Richmond chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy created the marker and with city backing and installed it at the site with much fanfare in 1939. “You may disagree, but please accept this as the city’s official response.”Īccording to city records, the bench cost $1,068. “Furthermore, a resident, who has a grandfather, four times removed, represented by this marker asked for and received the bench to sit and reflect at the marker,” Mr. “This location was a mass gravesite for soldiers,” he continued, “and we don’t know how many remains may still lie on this site.” “THAT is why it has been treated with sensitivity by the City. Saunders stated in the two-paragraph email. “The marker is a tombstone for the mass burial,” Mr. Sarahan’s question, “Why is this one marker given pride of place, while the others have been removed?” Lincoln Saunders, chief administrative officer, provided that explanation in an April 21 email sent to the Free Press, members of City Council and community advocate Michael Sarahan, who raised questions about the shrine, which surrounds a marker remembering Confederate soldiers and features a bench and gate. ![]() That’s why the Richmond Department of Public Utilities spent upward of $16,000 to create a shrine to Confederate soldiers on the grounds of a utility substation located in the 2400 block of Wise Street in South Side, according to City Hall’s No. ![]()
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