stone mountain

did they want to put a fourth guy on stone mountain originally? Who was it and why did he get excluded?

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ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Several sources state that the second sculptor to tackle the project, Augustus Lukeman, planned four figures, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, “Stonewall” Jackson, and an unnamed color-bearer. Perhaps this last figure was supposed to symbolize the average draftee. In any case, by the time the monument was completed in 1970 (dedicated by Vice President Spiro Agnew), they were pretty sick of the project dragging on for so long. Eliminating the fourth guy was one of several shortcuts taken.