Lady Offering Peace - Confederate Monument - Arlington, Cemetery, VA - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

County of monument: Arlington County
Location of monument: Jackson Circle, near Farragut Dr., inside Arlington National Cemetery
Artist: Sir Moses Jacob Ezekiel, 1844-1917, sculptor
H. Gladenbeck & Sohn, founder
Date dedicated June 14, 1914
Erected by: United Daughters of the Confederacy with permission of President Howard Taft

The quote in the short description is from Peace Memorials Web site

Proper Description: "The...richly modeled monument is crowned with a heroic-sized woman, symbolic of Peace, facing the South. Crowned with a wreath of olive leaves, she holds a laurel wreath, a plow stock, and a pruning hook....A vigorous high-relief, circular frieze in bronze is located around the center of the shaft and shows thirty-two life-size figures of Southern civilians bidding farewell to Confederate soldiers leaving for the war. Their sad return from the conflict is recorded in the center part of the frieze. Above the frieze...are carved in granite the seals of the Southern states." ~ Smithsonian American Art Museum

Remarks: "Monument to Confederate dead, erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, with the permission of President William Howard Taft, marks the burial site of 400 Confederate soldiers who died in action near Washington. The sculptor of the monument, Moses Ezekiel, was himself a Confederate veteran. Dr. Randolph Harrison McKim, Confederate soldier and Washington, D.C. clergyman, wrote the principal inscription of the north side of the monument. President Woodrow Wilson addressed some 3,000 Confederate and Union veterans at the dedication" ~ Smithsonian American Art Museum