Founding Father Firepower: Metal Intended for Statues of George Washington Was Used to Arm the Confederacy

hat is the man himself,” the Marquis de Lafayette said as he viewed French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon’s statue of George Washington in 1824. “I can almost realize he is going to move.” The Commonwealth of Virginia had commissioned the statue in 1784 to be featured in the state’s capitol building, then under construction in Richmond. …

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