Georgia State Monument - Ft Oglethorpe, GA - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

Inscription: (Bottom right corner of bronze plaques:) GORHAM MFG. CO. FOUNDERS (Below infantry figure:) 1899 (On front face of monument:) TO THE LASTING MEMORY OF ALL HER SONS/WHO FOUGHT ON THIS FIELD--THOSE WHO FOUGHT AND LIVED AND THOSE/WHO FOUGHT AND DIED. THOSE WHO GAVE MUCH AND THOSE WHO/GAVE ALL, GEORGIA/ ERECTS THIS MONUMENT. (Under artillery figure:) ARTILLERY (followed by a list of artillery organizations) (below this:) CAVALRY (followed by a list of cavalry organizations) (Under Officer figure:) GENERAL OFFICERS, BRIGADE COMMANDERS/AND/STAFF OFFICERS OF GEORGIA COMMANDS (followed by a list) Founder's mark appears.

Description: A bronze full-length statue of a Confederate soldier surmounts a tall granite column. The soldier is dressed in uniform and holds a Confederate flag in his proper left arm; he points with his proper right hand. The soldier stands atop a capital which is supported by four horse heads carved from granite. The column is divided in two places by carved rings with ornate leaf design. The bottom section of the column has a bronze seal of the State of Georgia. A pedestal of rock-faced granite topped by polished granite with crenellation supports the column. The pedestal is composed of a cylindrical center with square platforms in three directions. Standing on each platform is a full-length bronze statue. In front is an infantry soldier dressed in uniform, holding a rifle in both hands. On the platform to the proper right, is the figure of an officer, dressed in uniform and pulling a sword out of its scabbard with his proper right hand. On the third platform stands the figure from the artillery holding a ramrod in both hands. The entire monument sits atop a three-tiered base set on a circular granite plaza.

Remarks: Frederick Moynihan sculpted the Infantryman figure. IAS files contain excerpts from Jack Kerr's "Monuments and Markers of the 29 States Engaged at Chickamauga and Chattanooga," (Collegedale, Tenn., The College Press, n.d.); and copy of Georgia Historic Resources form, Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Atlanta, Georgia. Monument is on the National Park Service List of Classified Structures, No. 08838.

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TITLE: Georgia State Monument ARTIST(S): Frederick Moynihan DATE: May 4, 1899 MEDIUM: Bronze, Granite CONTROL NUMBER: IAS GA000413 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Along US Hwy 27 as it passes through the park DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: None noted

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