May 22, 1863, The Charleston Mercury
The Richmond Sentinel learns that arrangements are on foot to procure at once a full size bronze statue of Gen. JACKSON, with the design to place it, when completed, on the plateau in front of the south portico of the Capitol. There are ample materials from which a perfect likeness of the General can be had, and no unnecessary delay will occur in sending these materials to the same foundry in Munich at which the equestrian statue of Washington was cast, after the necessary funds shall have been obtained. The estimated cost of the statue in Confederate funds is sixty to eighty thousand dollars. Our brethren of the press will gladly assist in making the appeal known; and we are pursuaded that nothing more will be necessary to secure the amount required. Col. S. BASSETT FRENCH, Aid de camp to the Governor of Virginia, and a member of General JACKSON’S staff during the campaign of last summer, has been appointed to receive all contributions to the testimonial of a nation’s love, and has agreed to act. All communications should, therefore, be addressed to him at Richmond.