Dallas' Robert E. Lee sculpture is going, going, gone for more than $1.4M at online auction
I guess this counts as Breaking News regarding the Civil War:
Alexander Phimister Proctor's 1935 sculpture Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Soldier, which Dallas City Hall snatched out of the former Lee Park in September 2017, sold Wednesday morning for more than $1 million.
To be exact, the winning bid was $1,435,000. Assuming the winning bidder doesn't come up short when the bill comes due. (But the city required all bidders to put down a $50,000 deposit just to participate. To make sure, you know, they were serious).
That top-dollar amount is far higher than the $450,000 reserve set by council members last month, when they declared the sculpture "surplus property." And way more than the $950,000 value at which City Hall had appraised the statue a month ago.
I cannot (yet) tell you the winner's name: The moniker by which the winning bidder goes is only LawDude. All I can say for certain is that he or she desperately wanted the sculpture — for what purposes, we do not yet know. Perhaps to display with pride; maybe to melt. Hard to say.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/06/05/dallas-robert-e-lee-sculpture-going-going-gone-14m-online-auction
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Auction that sucker off. 