by Larry Chowning
The Confederate monument on the Historic Middlesex County Courthouse green was dedicated on July 4, 1910 by the Middlesex Chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy.
President of the chapter, Alice W. Christian of Urbanna, wife of Col. William S. Christian, organized the dedication. Christian’s portrait is one of three uniformed Confederate soldiers hanging on a wall in the Historic Middlesex County Courthouse. The other two are Sgt. William X. Smith, who was shot in the throat and killed in 1863 at Chancellorsville, and Capt. Elliott Muse Healy, who was shoot dead at the Battle of Manassas in 1862. All three have family still living today in Middlesex County.
In 1910, the war had been over just 45 years. Confederate veterans and their wives and children were still alive and the war still very much….
