Dignified Resignation - Galveston TX
Posted by: PeterNoG
N 29° 18.187 W 094° 47.394
15R E 326160 N 3242898
This Civil War Monument is in the Galveston County Courthouse Square on Moody Avenue at Winnie Street in Galveston, Texas.
Waymark Code: WMKP8J
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/10/2014
Views: 3
This fine old statue is in the center of the beautiful Courthouse Square.
~ Smithsonian Art Inventory 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.
~ inscription on plaque ~
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
Date Installed or Dedicated: 06/03/1912
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: The Veuve Jefferson Davis Chapter No. 17 United Daughters Of Confederacy
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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