Let's Play Statues......

[Niamhaine]

Clue #8- Critical comments our man wrote in his memoirs about General Lee's wartime performance, made him anathema to many of his former Confederate colleagues. He has only regained some of his credibility in the late 20th century. A prime example is the delay in erecting a statue in his honor on "sacred ground" until 1998.

[Niamhaine]

Clue #9- General Robert E. Lee called our man his "Old War Horse."

[zenwalk]

Would we be talking about Longstreet?

[zenwalk]

Victorian reformer across the pond.http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...26tbs%3Disch:1

2) British economist

[Niamhaine]

Victorian reformer across the pond.http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...26tbs%3Disch:1

2) British economist

Thomas Attwood..neat looking statue!

[Niamhaine]

It's his month:

http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL221.../385598830.jpg

[zenwalk]

TS Eliot? He looks like he's on a coal miner's trolley.

[Niamhaine]

TS Eliot? He looks like he's on a coal miner's trolley.

That's our man's tomb! Obviously the ones who buried him didn't believe in the "old soldier's never die, they just fade away" motto.

[Niamhaine]

Clue #1- Our man was related to Meriwether Lewis.

Clue #2- He graduated 2nd in his class from WestPoint.

[Niamhaine]

Clue #3- Our man became the first cadet to achieve the rank of sergeant at the end of his first year at WestPoint.

[Niamhaine]

Clue #4- His wife was the step-great-granddaughter of George Washington.

[Niamhaine]

Clue #5- Helen Keller was related to our man through her mother's side of the family.

Clue #6- Our man was an engineer who distinguished himself in the Mexican–American War early in his career. He was one of Winfield Scott's chief aides in the march from Veracruz to Mexico City. He was wounded in 1847.

[zenwalk]

Wow. Kevin Bacon? Short of that I'd have to say RE Lee.

[Niamhaine]

Wow. Kevin Bacon? Short of that I'd have to say RE Lee.

LOL...hey, maybe we both are related to Bobby and don't know it!

Ding, Ding, Ding!! Your turn....

That's some tomb he has, I might have to check it out the next time I'm down in Virginny.

[Niamhaine]

A fill-in for Zen.

It's this man's month also....what a co-inky-dink!

http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL221.../385771090.jpg

Clue #1- Found it interesting that the sculptor used one of this man's descendents as a model for a proposed statue of him as a youth, to be erected at his birthplace.

Clue #2- He "visited" Westminster (Maryland, not Abbey) in his travels.

[Niamhaine]

Clue #3- One of his nicknames was "Knight of the golder spurs".

[Niamhaine]

Clue #4- He was late, late, late for a very important date.

Clue #5- In the end, yellow was not his favorite color.

[Niamhaine]

Clue #6- Lee was appointed superintendent of the Academy in 1852, and our man became friends with the Lee family before graduating in 1854. He was one of eight cadets designated as honorary "cavalry officers" for his skills in horsemanship, graduating 13th in his class of 46 and ranking tenth in his class in cavalry tactics.

[Niamhaine]

Clue #4- He was late, late, late for a very important date.

Clue #5- In the end, yellow was not his favorite color.

Clue #7- That may have been because our man encountered Sherman's troops at an abandoned inn named Yellow Tavern.

[BabySealClub]

Clue #7- That may have been because our man encountered Sherman's troops at an abandoned inn named Yellow Tavern.

J.E.B. Stuart