
The Daily Item (Sumter, SC) · Dec 4, 1928
MONUMENT FOR LEE AND JACKSON
Baltimore Banker Leaves $100,000 For That Purpose
Baltimore, Dec. 3.- (AP) – The will of J. Henry Ferguson, president of the Colonial Trust company, who died November 24, set aside $100,000 to be used for the erection of a monument depicting Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson, Confederate generals, parting prior to the Battle of Chancellorsville. The will specified that the statue be erected within ten miles of Baltimore’s city hall.

