Little Rock Confederate Memorial - Little Rock National Cemetery - Little Rock, Arkansas
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BruceS
N 34° 43.553 W 092° 15.368
15S E 568105 N 3842897
Confederate memorial located in the Oakland/Fraternal Cemetery but access through the Little Rock National Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM96TV
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 07/06/2010
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The memorial is a obelisk about 20-foot tall. The memorial is inscribed:
West side:
1913
In Memory Of
The Nine Hundred Confederate Soldiers
Buried Within This Enclosure, Most
Of Whom Died In The
Hospitals in Little Rock, Ark
In 1863
Our
Confederate Soldiers
North side:
Gather The Sacred Dust
Of The Warriors Tried And True
Who Bore The Flag Of A Nations Trust
And Fell In A Cause, Though Lost, Still Just
And Died For Me And You
And The Dead Thus Meet The Dead
While The Living O'er Them Weep
And The Men By Lee And Stonewall Led
And The Hearts That Once Together Bled
Together Still Shall Sleep.
South side:
All Lost But By The Grave
Where Martyred Heroes Rest
He Wins The Most Who Honor Save.
Success Is Not The Test
It Recks Not Where Their Bodies Lie
By Bloody Hillside, Plain, Or River,
Their Names Are Bright On Fames Proud Sky.
Their Deeds Of Valor Live Forever
Text on the north side of the monument is from a poem by Father Abram Joseph Ryan entitled "March of the Deathless Dead". The last part of the text on the south side is from a poem by Colonel A.M. Hobby entitled "Our Dead", though the entire text on this side had been previously used on a Confederate memorial placed in Jackson, Mississippi in 1890.