DAVID MARCUS: Woke Virginia tears down statue of Geneva Convention pioneer

Do not adjust your calendars.

You may have seen images this week of Confederate statues coming down in Richmond’s capitol grounds, and thought we had slipped back in time to the tumult of 2020, but no.

Rather, the commie Commonwealth of Virginia is still tearing down American history in the year of our Lord 2026.

As bad as the removal of all of these monuments has been, this particular round of damnatio memoriae on Friday, captured in its illiberal net the statue of a man named Dr.

Hunter Holmes McGuire, whose work provided a major contribution to the Geneva Convention, the global gold standard of wartime humanitarian rules.

McGuire served as a Confederate surgeon for almost the entirety of the Civil War, saving countless lives.

One life he failed to save was that of General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, who died under the doctor’s care.

A Jackson statue also came down on Friday.

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McGuire could not save Stonewall.

It was under Jackson’s command in 1862 that McGuire established a new humanitarian principle of warfare that we still have with us today, not just in the United States, but across the world.

In May 1862, after the First Battle of Winchester, 6 Union army doctors were captured.

It was then that McGuire convinced a reluctant Jackson to release them, and established, with Northern agreement, the Winchester Accord, after which both sides released doctors as non-combatants.

McGuire himself would be released by the North under the accord in 1864, and would go on to be present for the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse .