Southern Horror #93

Southern Horror #93 (Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, 26 of 28) by Kris Graves The Lewisburg Confederate monument in Lewisburg, West Virginia was dedicated in 1905 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Following the George Floyd protests of 2020, protestors called for the statue’s removal, however the city of Lewisburg ultimately decided not to remove it. While this was going on, I was commissioned by National Geographic to photograph memorials, monuments, and sites of the antebellum South. My friend Marshall Scheuttle and I drove approximately 4000 miles across eight southern states making photographs of every site we could find. Some have been removed, most remain in place.