Confederate Monument - Evansville, IN
N 37° 59.071 W 087° 32.266
16S E 452775 N 4204233
"Confederate Monument" statue of a Confederate soldier in Evansville, IN
Waymark Code: WMDYH4
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 03/09/2012
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The Confederate soldier statue is located in Oak Hill Cemetery in Evansville, IN. It is a very rare sight to see a Confederate memorial in a northern state.
This cemetery has 24 graves of confederate soldiers buried here of soldiers that died in local prison camps during the Civil War. This monument is a marker that names all of these interments.
The inscription on the front of the monument reads:
"THIS TABLET WAS PLACED ON THIS MONUMENT BY THE UNITED STATES TO MARK THE BURIAL PLACE OF/24 CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS, WHO, WHILE PRISONERS OF WAR, DIED AT EVANSVILLE AND/WERE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY, WHERE THE INDIVIDUAL GRAVES CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED NOW./"
TITLE: Confederate Monument
ARTIST(S): Unknown Sculptor
DATE: 1904
MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS IN000609
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
Inside Oak Hill Cemetery, just north of the entrance off of Columbia St.
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
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