# @myvpm on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcmSFr3lY5b
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69794572-myvpm-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-28T21:03:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** VPM (@myVPM) — https://gondola.cc/myVPM

## Caption

The commonwealth removed the last state-owned Confederate monuments from Capitol Square in Richmond on Friday. Crews from the Department of General Services took down three statues — Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Gov. William “Extra Billy” Smith and Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire — that had been installed in the late 1800s and early 1900s. 

The state has gifted the statues to the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation.

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