Arlington Confederate Monument
Confederate
Erected and dedicated in 1914, the Arlington Confederate Monument was located in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. The monument features a central, white female figure representing victory, surrounded by 32 life-sized figures depicting mythological figures, Confederate soldiers, and civilians. Among these figures, there are two Black Americans: an enslaved soldier following a white man to war, and a Black "Mammy" holding a white soldier's baby, a second white child clutching her skirt. The monument was designed by Confederate soldier Moses Jacob Ezekiel and commissioned by the Arlington Confederate Monument Association, an organization which formed out of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, who conceptualized and sponsored the memorial.
This monument was partially dismantled and removed in December 2023, with plans to relocate it to New Market Battlefield Historical Park.
Monument type:
Statue - group
Artist:
Moses Jacob Ezekiel
Dedication Date:
1914-01-01
Address:
Arlington
Arlington
Pennsylvania
United States
Inscription:
Panel 1:
"Not for fame or reward, not for place or for rank; not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity; but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it; these men suffered all, sacrificed all, dared all, and died."
Panel 2:
To our dead heroes, by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Victrix causa diis placuit sed victa catoni.
Inscriptions around frieze and base
1861-1865.
"They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks."
[Seals of the 13 Confederate States, plus Maryland.]
M. Ezekiel, Sculptor; Rome, MCMXII.
Made by Aktien-Gesellschaft Gladensbeck Bronze Foundry, Berlin-Fredrichshagen-Germany.
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Conception Date:
1906-01-01
Opening Date:
Material:
Bronze,Granite
Size:
m x m x 9.8m
Creator:
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arlington Confederate Memorial Association
Cost / Value:
Erected by:
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arlington Confederate Memorial Association
Funded by:
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arlington Confederate Memorial Association
Run by:
Indigenous Land
Piscataway
Organization/Curator:
Data Sources:
Arlington National Cemetery. “Confederate Memorial.” Www.arlingtoncemetery.mil, www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Monuments-and-Memorials/Confederate-Memorial.
“Confederate Memorial, a War Memorial.” Www.hmdb.org, www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=11807. Accessed 7 Apr. 2024.
Smith, Clint. “Arlington’s Civil War Legacy Is Finally Laid to Rest.” The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2023, www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/arlington-cemetery-confederate-monument/676965/. Accessed 7 Apr. 2024.
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