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Richmond removes second Confederate statue, of Matthew Fontaine Maury. He went home after he recovered and told his wife Ann Hull Herndon-Maury, "I have come home to die." 'Maury's statue in Richmond was targeted by Black Lives Matter protesters along with other Confederate statues deemed offensive and romanticizing or glorifying the Confederacy. Richmond removes 2nd Confederate statue as crowd cheers.
RICHMOND, Va. -- Work crews removed the Maury statue from its pedestal on Monument Avenue Thursday morning. Richmond Mayor Stoney had promised Wednesday that all Confederate statues on city-owned property — including the Maury statue — would be removed, as soon as possible.
The mayor expressed fear that protesters could be hurt or killed if they tried to take the statues down themselves. He would assemble them night and morning to read the Psalter for the day, verse and verse about; and in this way, so familiar did this barefooted boy [M. F. Maury] become with the Psalms of David, that in after life he could cite a quotation, and give chapter and verse, as if he had the Bible open before him. (See enlarged image on this page)As officer-in-charge of the United States Navy office in As a sailor, Maury noted that there were numerous lessons that had been learned by ship masters about the effects of adverse winds and drift currents on the path of a ship. He proposed for the United States to invite the maritime nations of the world to a conference to establish a "universal system" of meteorology, and he was the leading spirit of As its representative at the conference, the US sent Maury. He gave the speeches until his last days, when he collapsed giving a speech. RICHMOND — The former capital of the Confederacy removed a second Confederate monument Thursday morning, taking just over an hour to dismantle and lower the statue of Navy officer and oceanographer Matthew Fontaine Maury.“This is the day. Stuart and Jefferson Davis — also would be coming down soon.A law that took effect in Virginia on Wednesday allows cities and counties to act on their own to remove such tributes, which since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody have been the focus of nightly protests against police brutality and racial injustice.Virginia’s new law on monuments does not allow local governments to take them down immediately. Brasilia: UnB, 2011, pp. The military leader, born Thomas Jonathan Jackson on January 21, 1824, and other drivers of the Confederacy in the southern states of the US between 1961 and 1865 have proved to be controversial in recent years.Civil rights campaigners claim the American Civil War was sparked because President Abraham Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery in the southern states, which relied heavily on slaves for cotton production. "This is the day. The statue of astronomer and Confederate naval officer Matthew Fontaine Maury in Richmond had been removed to cheers from 200 bystanders Thursday morning.
Workers secure the statue of Confederate Naval officer Matthew Fontaine Maury to a truck on Monument Avenue, Thursday, July 2, 2020, in Richmond, Va. Maury was better known for his work in oceanography and other sciences before the Civil War. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that a plaque on one of the cannons said it marks the location of the second line of the Confederate defenses of Richmond and was placed there in 1938 at the request of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society.