Salvador Dalí Nearly Created a Confederate Monument in Virginia

She was called the “Angel of the Confederacy” and Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, of all people, was nearly chosen to create a statue of her in Virginia, the state with the most Confederate monuments in America. It would have been one of just a handful of statues of women who have been construed by some as Confederate heroes, and it would have existed on Monument Avenue in Richmond, not far from a controversial monument to Confederate States Army leader Robert E. Lee that is