Editor’s note : News 5 has changed this headline and story to clarify that a new Admiral Semmes statue is coming to Baldwin County.
SPANISH FORT, Ala. ( WKRG ) — Twenty-eight tons of granite, “This is the original base that was put up in the 1900s to hold the Admiral Semmes statue,” said Joe Ringhoffer with the Admiral Semmes Camp 11 Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The base is now prominently displayed at Fort McDermott Confederate Memorial Park in Spanish Fort. “1600 Confederates held off 30 thousand Union troops for two weeks,” said Ringhoffer.
The statue of Admiral Raphael Semmes was on Government Street in downtown Mobile until June of 2020. It was vandalized and eventually removed…