Some history on this statue....it wasn’t erected in the 20-year period after the war. This is true for probably 90 percent of the memorials and statues that exist today.
It was 1905, during a revival period over the entire state that the Democratic Party took advantage of local feelings (most of the participants were approaching mid-60s to mid-70s). Around the whole state, there’s probably over forty of these statues that are erected from 1900 to 1912.
Cost of the statue? Covered by the Daughters of the Confederacy.
So to the more curious piece of history. Around the mid-1960s...the statue was taken down as the new courthouse was being built. This was safely taken down, but put into a unsafe location at the site, and accidentally crushed/damaged by the construction company.
The DAR folks sued the company and forced them to pay for a new statue (so this is not the original one from 1905).
Interesting!
There was little money available in the South for memorials in the first 20 years after the war.
The Washington Memorial in Washington was not erected in the first 20 years after the Revolutionary War. Think about that.