The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors monument was erected on the 1400 block of Mount Royal Avenue in 1903, 35 years after the end of the Civil War. Funded by the Maryland Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, the statue was created by F. Wellington Ruckstuhl, a New York-based sculptor infamous for developing a classicizing Lost Cause iconography in many Confederate monument commissions. In its original form, the monument depicted a winged angel supporting a wounded Confederate soldier and raising a laurel crown of victory. Although in the early twentieth century Mount Royal was configured as a monumental corridor commemorating Maryland casualties of war—also serving as home to the Revolutionary War Monument of the Maryland Line (1901), the William H. Watson Monument (1903), and the Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1909)—the Confederate monument recast the South’s disgrace as a noble victory, and effectively marked the surrounding neighborhood as anti-Black space. Today, only the pedestal remains: In the early morning hours of August 16, 2017, in the wake of the deadly white nationalist unrest at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, crews removed the statue and hauled it away, along with four other monuments across the city.