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The Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar was an American fifty-cent piece struck in 1925 at the Philadelphia Mint. Its main purpose was to raise money on behalf of the Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association for the Stone Mountain Memorial near Atlanta, Georgia .
1925 50¢ Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar: Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson: Eagle perched on a mountain crag; inscription to the bravery of the soldiers of the South 90% Ag, 10% Cu Authorized: 5,000,000 (max) Uncirculated: 2,314,709 (P) [15] 1925 50¢ California Diamond Jubilee half dollar: A Forty-Niner panning for ...
The submarine was decommissioned in 1995. During World War II, the Navy named a Liberty ship the SS T.J. Jackson in his honor. The U.S. M36 tank destroyer was nicknamed Jackson after him by British forces in World War II. "Stonewall" Jackson appeared on the CSA $500 bill (7th Issue, February 17, 1864) and on the 1925 Stone Mountain Memorial ...
In 1925, a commemorative 50-cent coin was released that showed Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Money raised from the sale of the coins was combined with money raised by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Association in order to fund the carving of a Confederate monument at Stone Mountain. [6]
Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [13] According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."
The half dollar, sometimes referred to as the half for short or 50-cent piece, is a United States coin worth 50 cents, or one half of a dollar.In both size and weight, it is the largest circulating coin currently minted in the United States, [1] being 1.205 inches (30.61 millimeters) in diameter and 0.085 in (2.16 mm) in thickness, and is twice the weight of the quarter.
The original version of the bill, introduced in the House of Representatives on February 16, 1925 by Pennsylvania Congressman George P. Darrow and in the Senate by that state's George W. Pepper, called for a $1.50 gold coin for the 150th anniversary, for commemorative half dollars, and for a $1 bill honoring the Declaration of Independence.
One of the relatively few monuments to black soldiers that participated in the American Civil War, 1924. Captain Andrew Offutt Monument, Lebanon, 1921. Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument, Morgantown at the Butler County Courthouse, 1907. 32nd Indiana Monument, near Munfordville. The oldest surviving memorial to the Civil War, 1862.