Dignified Resignation - Galveston TX
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This Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculpture is in the Galveston County Courthouse Square on Moody Avenue at Winnie Street in Galveston, Texas.
Waymark Code: WMKP8F
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/10/2014
Views: 5
This fine old statue is in the center of the beautiful Courthouse Square although the fountain around it is now filled with grass,
Inscription:
(On bronze plaque on front of base:)
Dignified Resignation
Erected to the Soldiers and Sailors of
the
Confederate States of America
by
The Veuve Jefferson Davis Chapter No. 17
United Daughters Of Confederacy
1911
Galveston, Texas
"There has never been an armed force
which in purity of motives intensity of
courage and heroism has equaled the
Army and Navy of the Confederate
States of America 1861-65"
—————— • ——————
Mollie R. MacGill Rosenberg President
—————— • ——————
Monument Committee
Mary Thompson Settle Chairman
Ida Smith Austin
Jean Scrimgeour Morgan
(On medallion on rear of base:)
"The Confederate States of America 22 February 1862 Deo Vindice"
Smithsonian Description:
A standing male figure, representing the brave sons of the South, holds a Confederate battle flag over his proper left shoulder and a broken sword in his proper right hand. He wears a shirt, pants and knee-high boots. Behind him is a dismantled cannon with a cannonball balanced on top. An anchor and foliage are under the cannon. On the ground between his feet is a scroll inscribed with "GLORY TO THE DEFEATED." On the rear of the base is a bronze medallion with a horse and rider in the center. The sculpture is set in a circular fountain pool.
TITLE: Dignified Resignation
ARTIST(S): Amateis, Louis, 1855-1913, sculptor.
DATE: Commissioned 1899. Cast 1911. Dedicated June 3, 1912.
MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze; Base: red granite.
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS TX001089
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
Galveston County Courthouse,
Courthouse Square,
Galveston, Texas
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
Fountain pool is now grass filled.
Inscription:
Molly R. MacGill Rosenberg should be Mollie R. MacGill Rosenberg
Several punctuation errors.
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