''At Ready'' (1909) is a memorial of a
Confederate
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soldier originally located in front of the
Albemarle County
Albemarle County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its county seat is Charlottesville, which is an independent city and enclave entirely surrounded by the county. Albemarle County is part of the Char ...
Courthouse in downtown
Charlottesville, Virginia. The statue, popularly known as "Johnny Reb,"
and accompanying objects were removed on September 12, 2020.
The statue and nearby cannon, and cannonballs were removed to be placed on display at the Third Winchester Battlefield,
part of the
Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District.
History
The statue was unveiled on May 5, 1909, the anniversary of the 1857 creation of the Monticello Guard, a militia company in Charlottesville that formed in front of the Albemarle County Courthouse when Virginia seceded from the union in 1861, and became part of the
19th Virginia Infantry
The 19th Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.
The 19th Virginia, organized at Manass ...
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Relocation
On August 6, 2020, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to remove the statue. While several Virginia communities removed monuments in 2020 due to safety concerns amidst widespread protests, Albemarle was the first locality to remove a war memorial under the procedures of a recently passed statues bill that went into effect on July 1, 2020. The statue was gone in September 2020.
See also
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Albemarle County Courthouse Historic District
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Charlottesville historic monument controversy The Charlottesville historic monument controversy is the public discussion on how Charlottesville should respond to protesters who complain that various local monuments are racist. The controversy began before 2016 when protest groups in the communi ...
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Monuments and memorials in Virginia removed during the George Floyd protests