The Confederate statue "Appomattox" is located at the intersection of Prince and S. Washington streets. Head bowed and facing the battlefields to the South, this statue of a Confederate soldier marks the spot where approximately 700 Alexandrians of the 17th Virginia Volunteer Infantry left to fight for the Confederacy on May 24, 1861, the date Federal troops occupied the city © Mike Lynaugh

The Confederate statue "Appomattox" is located at the intersection of Prince and S. Washington streets. Head bowed and facing the battlefields to the South, this statue of a Confederate soldier marks the spot where approximately 700 Alexandrians of the 17th Virginia Volunteer Infantry left to fight for the Confederacy on May 24, 1861, the date Federal troops occupied the city

© Mike Lynaugh