10 Works, October 6th. is William D. Washington’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #218

In June 1862, twenty-nine-year-old Captain William Latané of the 9th Virginia Cavalry was the only Confederate killed during J. E. B. Stuart’s famous ride around Union general McClellan’s army during the Peninsula Campaign. After Latané’s death at Old Church in Hanover County, his brother John Latané removed the body to the Westwood plantation two miles away. The plantation’s white men were all away serving the Confederate army…

William Dickinson Washington (October 7, 1833 — December 1, 1870) was an American painter and teacher of art. He is most famous for his painting The Burial of Latané (See below), which became a symbol of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy in the years following the American Civil War, and for the work he did in establishing the fine arts program of the Virginia Military Institute…

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