Confederate Women Memorial - Nashville, Tennessee
Posted by: BruceS
N 36° 09.826 W 086° 47.007
16S E 519476 N 4002134
Sculpture of two women figures supporting a fallen soldier, honoring the role Confederate women during the Civil War. Located adjacent to the War Memorial building in downtown Nashv
Waymark Code: WMGHJB
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 03/08/2013
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"Three seated figures. At the proper left is a male figure lying back against a broken cannon as if dying. In the center is a female figure representing a Greek goddess and wearing classical drapery and a laurel wreath on her head. She holds a wreath over the head of the female figure on her proper right who wears a dress of the Civil War period. The male figure is also dressed in Civil War era clothing. The woman on the proper right holds a palm branch over the man. The man grasps a partially rolled up flag in his proper left hand. His legs are bent under him as if he is kneeling or falling. The sculpture is attached to a wall, and the rectangular granite base juts out from wall." - Smithsonian Art Inventory
Below the sculpture is a plaque inscribed:
Erected By The State Of Tennessee
To Commemorate The Heroic Devotion And
Self-Sacrifice Of Teh Women Of Tennessee
During The War Between The States
Dedicated October 10, 1926
Bell Kinney, Sculptor
This Plaque Placed By The Tennessee Historical Commission