Confederate Memorial in Cedar Hill Cemetery - Vicksburg, MS
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Confederate Monument overlooking Soldier's Rest CSA Cemetery in Cedar Hill cemetery along "Lindsey Street".
Waymark Code: WMP2QV
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 06/18/2015
Views: 6
Full-length figure of a uniformed Confederate soldier stands on a pedestal on a tiered base. The figure wears a long coat, hat and mustache and holds his rifle in front of him, butt on the ground with both hands around the barrel.
Surrounded by Confederate Graves from the siege of Vicksburg, including the graves of three CSA generals, stands a monument to the southerners who died in defense of Vicksburg. A square column is topped by a statue of a soldier leaning on his rifle.
On the front panel:
Upper Area: 1861-1865
Center Panel:
In Memory of the men, from all states of the South, who fell in the defense of Vicksburg during a siege of 47 days - May 18 to July 3, 1863. A defense unsurpassed in the annals of war for heroism, endurance of devotion, and patriotic devotion.
"We care not whence they came,
dear in their lifeless clay,
whether unknown or known to fame,
their cause and country still the same,
they died - and they wore the gray."
Lower Border: Confederate Dead
Right Side:
Here rests some few of those who vainly brave
Died for the land they loved, but could not save.
Reverse:
Building Committee
Mrs. M.A. Stevens
Mrs. T.W. Preston
Mrs. F.J. Hoffman
D.A. Campbell
Left side (road side)
Our dead are mourned forever through all the future ages. In history and in story their fame shall shine, their name shall twine; they need no greater glory, tenderly fall our tears over their lifeless clay
Here lie the dead who fought and bled and fell in garb of gray.
Ours the fate of the vanquished whose heartaches never cease.
Ours the tears,
Regrets and Tears,
Their's the eternal peace
TITLE: Confederate Memorial in Cedar Hill Cemetery, (sculpture)
ARTIST(S): A.A. Meneze
DATE: April 16, 1893
MEDIUM: Sculpture: granite; Base: granite
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS MS000387
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg Mississippi.
Soldier's Rest Confederate Cemetery
"Lindsey Street"
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