[1] In the late 1890s, residents of the city, wanting to promote both their granite industry and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, commissioned the creation of a Confederate monument.

[2] The granite for the statue was donated by Nathanael Long, a local doctor and businessman, at the request of the Women's Confederate Memorial Society.

[8][9] That morning, townspeople, including some Confederate veterans who took issue with the figure's resemblance of a Union soldier, toppled the statue from its pedestal.

[3] An empty whiskey barrel next to the statue led many to joke that Dutchy had gotten drunk and fallen.

[3] On April 19, 1982, Dutchy was dug up as part of a project by the Elberton Granite Association.