Statue of Jefferson Davis is proposed (Richmond VA)

Confederate group seeks spot near Lincoln statue at Tredegar in Richmond

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-06-10-0139.html

A life-size statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis could stand with the one of Abraham Lincoln at Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans is offering to donate a bronze statue of Davis for placement at the National Historic Landmark site to mark this year as the bicentennial of his birth.

The $100,000-plus statue by Lexington sculptor Gary Casteel would help educate the public about the Confederate president and how his family took in a mixed-race orphan and serve as a counter to the Lincoln statue that was dedicated in 2003, said Brag Bowling, a Richmond resident and a board member with the national Southern-heritage group.


"There were two sides of the war," he said.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans fought the Lincoln statue, which depicts him with his son Tad on his visit to the burned-out Confederate capital in 1865. Bowling said the group isn't trying to cause an uproar but sees a need for historic balance at Tredegar.

Not to be confused with THIS Jeff Davis monument on Monument Ave.

"There were two sides of the war," he said.

Yeah the side that won, and the side that was comprised of seditious, treasonous snakes that lost.
The Professor

I guess Mr Bowling's next project will be to erect a statue of Abraham Lincoln on the grounds of Davis' well maintained home in Biloxi.

mikey_the_rat

too funny

"President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson F. Davis, his son Joseph Evan Davis, and Jim Limber who was a black youth that the Davises rescued from maltreatment and raised as their own. Joseph, called 'Joe,' died during the War Between the States as the result of an accidental fall from a window of the Confederate Executive Mansion known today as the White House of the Confederacy. Jim Limber was captured with the Davis family after the collapse of the Confederacy and was cruelly separated from the Davises by Union soldiers. Mr. Davis tried the rest of his life to find out the fate of the boy, but he was never to be heard of again."

As someone who is a native of a state well north of the Mason Dixon line, I find myself puzzled by this. Do grudges really last that long? Is it a grudge at all? If not, what is it?