Monument to the Women of the Confederacy -- Jackson, MS
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N 32° 18.196 W 090° 10.931
15S E 765324 N 3577539
A large monument in front of the Mississippi State Capitol Building
Waymark Code: WMMHC4
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 09/22/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Math Teacher
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A large memorial on the south side of the Mississippi State Capitol Building in downtown Jackson MS.

From the SIRIS database: (visit link)

"DESCRIPTION

The central figure is a female representing Fame, whose robes flow behind her giving the illusion of wings. On her proper left is a wounded Confederate soldier, who lies with his back against a broken cannon and grasps a flagpole in his proper left hand. He is supported and comforted by Fame. On Fame's proper right is a young Confederate woman who wears long robes and holds a palm frond in her proper right hand. Fame places a laurel wreath on the Confederate woman's head, a gesture that symbolizes victory and the strength of Confederate women during crisis."

The engraving on all four sides reads as follows:

[South side]

"OUR MOTHERS

To the women of the Confederacy “Whose pious ministrations to our wounded soldiers soothed the last hours of those who died far from the objects of their tenderest love, whose domestic labors contributed much to supply the wants of our defenders in the field, whose zealous faith in our cause shone a guiding star undimmed by the darkest clouds of war, whose fortitude sustained them under all the privations to which they were subjected, whose floral tribute annually expresses their enduring love and reverence for our sacred dead; and whose patriotism will teach their children to emulate the deeds of our revolutionary sires.” Jefferson Davis

United Confederate Veterans honor the memory of the Confederate women of Mississippi.

[East side]

OUR DAUGHTERS

Devoted daughters of the heroic women and noble men, they keep the mounds of loved ones sweet with flowers and perpetuated in marble and bronze the granite characters of a soldiery that won the admiration of the world and a womanhood whose ministrations were as tender as an angels benediction.

[North side]

OUR SISTERS

Their smiles inspired hope; their tender hands soothed the pangs of pain; their prayers encouraged faith in god; and when the dragon of war closed its fangs of poison and death, they like guardian angels, entwined their hands in their brothers arms, encouraged them to overcome the losses of war and to conquer the evils in its wake, adopting as their motto: “Lest We Forget”.

[West Side]

OUR WIVES

They loved their land because it was their own, and scorned to seek another reason why, calamity was their touchstone; and in the ordeal of fire their fragility was tempered to the strength of steel. Angels of comfort, their courage and tenderness soothed all wounds of body and of spirit more than medicines. They girded their gentle hearts with fortitude, and suffering all things, hoping all things fed the failing fires of patriotism to the end. The memory and example of their devotion shall endure."
TITLE: Monument to the Women of the Confederacy

ARTIST(S): Belle Kinney, sculptor. Tiffany & Co., founder

DATE: 1917

MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze; Base: Italian marble.

CONTROL NUMBER: IAS MS000213

Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]

PHYSICAL LOCATION:
Mississippi State Capitol Jackson MS


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