Confederate Heritage’s Big Retreat

This week saw a major retreat suffered in the Old Dominion on the confederate heritage side.

The Virginia Military Institute [VMI] removed an iconic statue of Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson from its campus. This article tells us, “The Virginia Military Institute began work Monday to remove a prominent statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson, an effort initiated this fall after allegations of systemic racism roiled the school. A crew was inspecting the statue at the public military college in Lexington, poised to haul away the statue of Jackson that some cadets were required to salute until several years ago. VMI’s board voted to remove the statue in late October after The Washington Post published a story that described…