Monument to the Confederate Dead - Columbia, South Carolina
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BruceS
N 34° 00.067 W 081° 02.008
17S E 496909 N 3762280
Civil War memorial on the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol in Columbia, South Carolina.
Waymark Code: WMGN1V
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 03/22/2013
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Directly north of the State House is the MONUMENT TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, a tall white marble shaft surmounted by a figure in Confederate uniform, carved by Nicoli, Italian sculptor. The inscription, by William Henry Trescot, is a stirring summary of Southern ideals. That on the south side reads:
Let the Stranger,
Who May in Future Times
Read This Inscription,
Recognize That These Were Men
Whom Power Could not Corrupt,
Whom Death Could not Terrify,
Whom. Defeat Could not Dishonor,
And Let Their Virtues Plead
For Just Judgment
Of the Cause in Which They Perished.
Let the South Carolinians
Of Another Generation
Remember
That the State Taught Them
How to Live and How to Die.
And that From Her Broken Fortunes
She Has Preserved for Her Children
The Priceless Treasure of Their Memories,
Teaching All Whom May Claim
The Same Birthright
That Truth, Courage and Patriotism
Endure Forever.
. - South Carolina: A Guide to the Palmetto State, Columbia section , pg. 223.
The guide is discussing various items found on the Statehouse grounds in Columbia. The location and description of memorial matches what is in the Guide. On the west side of the memorial the inscription reads:
To South Carolina's Dead
Of The
Confederate Army
1861 1865