The Confederate Monument

  


Confederate Monument
Rapheal Tuck & Sons No. 2485, "Alexandria, Va."
Art Publishers to Their Majesties the King and Queen
Photochromed in Saxony

postcard At the intersection of Prince and Washington Streets, stands Appomatox Monument, erected in 1889 by the surviving Confederate soldiers to the memory of their dead comrades. This was the place where the southern soldiers gathered, and from which they marched south on May 24th, 1861, the beginning of the Civil War. (Caption from postcard)


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