![]() On June 30, 2015, Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake announced plans to undertake a formal review for Baltimore’s Confederate statues. October 1948: Strom Thurmond campaigns in Baltimore, stops at the Lee-Jackson Monument.May 1, 1948: Lee-Jackson Monument dedicated at Wyman Park Dell.October 1947: Maryland Historical Society mounts an exhibition of Confederate relics.speaks at the Hayward Shepherd Memorial dedication in Harper’s Ferry Harry Ferguson provides $100,000 for the erection of a monument to Robert E. November 2, 1918: Confederate Women’s Monument erected on University Parkway.April 5, 1906: Maryland State legislature authorizes funding for a Union monument in Baltimore.January 9, 1906: Severn Teackle Wallis statue dedicated at Mount Vernon Place.1905: Maryland disenfranchisement campaign illustrates the political context of Confederate memorialization. ![]() May 2, 1903: Maryland Confederate Monument dedicated on Mount Royal Avenue.February 1899: Baltimore City Council approves resolution supporting the erection of a Confederate monument in Druid Hill Park.1888: Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers’ Home opened in Pikesville.November 12, 1887: Chief Justice Taney statue unveiled in Mount Vernon Place.June 1883: Ladies’ Confederate Memorial and Beneficial Association reorganizes.January 19, 1880: Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in Maryland resolve to erect a monument.1871: Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in the State of Maryland established.1865: Loudon Park Memorial Association established.April 26, 1861: James Ryder Randall writes the poem “Maryland, My Maryland”. ![]()
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