UNITED DAUGHTERS CONFEDERACY ORIGINAL PHOTO 1911 MONUMENT TO GEN. JOHN H. MORGAN

Description

[Civil War, Confederate States of America]
"Monument to Gen. John H. Morgan
and his Men, and some of the members
of the U.D.C. Committee that built it."
R.L. McClure (photographer).
Monument to Gen. John H. Morgan ...
Lexington, Kentucky: "Copyrighted 1911 by R.L. McClure." Original gelatin silver photograph measuring 8 inches by 10 inches (including margins), with added printed paper label pasted to the lower left & portion of another photograph overlaid at the lower right apparently to add five people not in attendance while deliberately obscuring people who were. This image is presumably a camera ready mock up for publication in, we believe, the Courier-Journal newspaper of Louisville. The verso is rubber-stamped by the photographer & additionally includes production notes in ink & pencil.
Condition:
Image lightly faded, corner crease & short tear in the upper margin (crease just touching the image), verso soiled, otherwise Good.
Please see photos.
A fascinating photograph by Robert Lee McClure depicting a group
posed around the equestrian statue in Lexington, Kentucky memorializing Confederate General John H. Morgan who was killed during a Union raid at Greeneville, Tennessee on September 4, 1864.
Quire uncommon, OCLC locates a single copy in the collection of the Library of Congress (accession number 51117921).
"The John Hunt Morgan Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky, is a monument created during the Jim Crow era, as a tribute to Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, who was from Lexington and is buried in Lexington Cemetery. The monument was originally situated on the Courthouse Lawn at the junction of North Upper and East Main Street, but was moved to Lexington Cemetery in 2018.
With the help of the state government of Kentucky, the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected the monument on October 18, 1911 on what was then the courthouse lawn. The bronze statue was cast in Brooklyn, New York, at a cost of ,000. The state of Kentucky contributed ,500 of the cost because the UDC was unable to raise all of the funds promised. The ceremony included a parade of 400 veterans. The pedestal is of granite. The monument was dedicated by Morgan's brother-in-law Basil W. Duke, master of ceremonies, and keynote speaker Dr. Guy Carleton Lee, a third cousin of Robert E. Lee. Also in attendance were John Castleman, and Morgan's brothers Charlton and Dick."
Courtesy Wikipedia.
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