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The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], West point Cadets appointed. (search)
Statue of Gov. Nelson.
--The statue of that old Revolutionary hero and patriot, Governor Thomas Nelson, ordered by the Legislature of Virginia, to be placed with his compatriots on the Washington Monument, may be expected here in a few months.
It will cost about $4,500. Mr. Randolph Rogers, who has the contract for finishingGovernor Thomas Nelson, ordered by the Legislature of Virginia, to be placed with his compatriots on the Washington Monument, may be expected here in a few months.
It will cost about $4,500. Mr. Randolph Rogers, who has the contract for finishing the remaining figures, is now at Rome, busily engaged in the performance of that undertaking.
No doubt, during the summer most of them will have been completed Thomas Nelson, Jr., who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born at York, December 26, 1738, was a member of the Continental Congress, Governor of this SThomas Nelson, Jr., who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born at York, December 26, 1738, was a member of the Continental Congress, Governor of this State, &c.; and at the siege of Yorktown by the American army, under Washington, had command of the first battery which opened upon the town.
The first object to which he directed his attention was his own house, because filled with British officers.
The marks of cannon balls can be seen to this day. History awards him a prominen