CONFEDERATE MONUMENT. COLUMBIA, SOUTH

CAROLINA

[This eloquent inscription was composed by William Henry Trescot (1822-1898), of Charleston.]

This Monument

Perpetuates the memory

of those who

True to the instincts of their birth,
Faithful to the teachings of their fathers,
Constant in their Love for the State,
Died in performance of their duty;
who

Have glorified a fallen cause

By the simple manhood of their lives,
The patient endurance of suffering
And the heroism of death;

and who

In the dark hours of imprisonment,
In the hopelessness of the hospital,
In the short sharp agony of the field,
Found support and consolation
In the belief

That at home they would not be forgotten.

Those for whom they died

Inscribe on this marble

The solemn record of their sacrifice,

The perpetual gratitude of the State they served,
The undying affection of those whose lives

The separation of death

Has shadowed with an everlasting sorrow;
Scattered over the battlefields of the South,
Buried in remote and alien graves,
Dying unsoothed by the touch
Of familiar and household hands,
Their names are here

To recall

To their children and kinsmen

How worthily they lived
How nobly they died;

And in what tender reverence
Their memory survives.

Let the stranger
Who may in future times
Read this inscription,
Recognise that these were men
Whom power could not corrupt,
Whom death could not terrify,
Whom defeat could not dishonor;
And let their virtues plead for just judgment
Of the Cause in which they perished;
Let the South Carolinian
Of another generation
Remember

That the State taught them

How to live and how to die;
And that from her broken fortunes
She has preserved for her children
The priceless treasure of their memories,
Teaching all

Who may claim the same birth-right
That Truth, Courage, and Patriotism
Endure forever.

CONFEDERATE MONUMENT, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI

Officers of the Confederate Monument Association of Mississippi, A.D., 1890: Miss Sallie B. Morgan, president; Mrs. Belmont Phelps Manship, vice-president; Mrs. Elenor H. Stone, treasurer; Miss Sophie D. Langley, secretary; Mrs. Virginia P. McKay, corresponding secretary.

"All lost! but by the grave

Where martyred heroes rest,

He wins the most who honor saves-
Success is not the test."

"It recks not where their bodies lie,

By bloody hillside, plain, or river;

Their names are bright on fame's proud sky;
Their deeds of valor live forever."

The noble women of Mississippi, moved by grateful hearts and loving zeal, organized June 15, A.D. 1886, the Confederate Monument Association; their efforts, aided by an appropriation of the State of Mississippi, were crowned with success in the erection of this monument to the Confederate dead of Mississippi, in the year 1891.

The men to whom this monument is dedicated were the martyrs of their creed; their justification is in the holy keeping of the God of history.

God and our consciences alone

Give us measures of right and wrong.

The race may fall unto the swift

And the battle to the strong;

But the truth will shine in history
And blossom into song.

CONFEDERATE MONUMENT, KNOXVILLE,
TENNESSEE

[Dedicated May 19, 1892.]

[North Side]
Our
Confederate
Dead

[South Side]

This Shaft

Placed here with reverent hands, May 19, 1892, By the Ladies' Memorial Association of Knoxville, Tennessee, Commemorates

The heroic courage and unshaken constancy

of more than 1,600 soldiers of the South,

Who, in the great war between the States, 1861 to 1865

Were inspired

By the holiness of a patriotic and impersonal love, And in the mountain passes of Tennessee, whether on stricken field or in hospital ward,

Gave ungrudgingly their lives to their country.

[West Side]

"And their deeds, proud deeds shall remain for us,
And their names, dear names without stain for us,
And the glories they won shall not wane for us,
In legend and lay,

Our heroes in gray

Though dead, shall live over again for us."

[East Side]

"Forgotten! No! We can not all forget,
Or when we do, farewell to honor's face,
To hope's sweet tendence, valor's unpaid debt,
And every noblest grace

Which nursed in love might still benignly bloom
Above a nation's tomb."

Whose joy it was to suffer and die for a cause they believed to be just. Their unchallenged devotion and matchless heroism shall continue to be the wonder and

inspiration of the ages.

OUR CONFEDERATE DEAD.

JEFFERSON Davis

President of the

Confederate States of America.

Soldier, statesman, patriot, Christian. The only man in our nation without a country, yet twenty million people mourn his death.

EDWARD AYLESWORTH PERRY

Captain of the Pensacola Rifles, Colonel of the Second Florida Regiment, General of the Florida Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia.

STEPHEN R. MALLORY

Secretary of the Navy
of the

Confederate States of America.

""Tis not in mortals to command success; but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it."

CONFEDERATE MONUMENT, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA [In Hollywood Cemetery.]

[East Side]

Erected by the

General Dabney H. Maury
Chapter

Daughters of the Confederacy
of Philadelphia

In Loving and grateful memory of
The 224 known and unknown
Confederate Soldiers from

Virginia, North Carolina,

South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.
Who lie buried in National
Cemeteries in Philadelphia.

Unveiled, October, 1902.

[West Side]

Fate denied them victory but gave them a glorious immortality.

Dying in Captivity

And tendered a monument
In Phila. where they lie buried,
This stone is erected to their