Our Confederate Soldiers (Franklin, Tennessee)

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Title

Our Confederate Soldiers (Franklin, Tennessee)

Description

A statue of a six-foot-tall soldier at parade rest sculpted out of Italian marble on a Vermont granite base with a pillar that helps the monument reach thirty-seven feet tall. Franklin, a suburb of Nashville, was the site of a battle on November 30th, 1864 that resulted in defeat for the Confederates and nearly seven thousand casualties on their side. The Franklin chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy fundraised for the monument and planned its design. The monument was dedicated on November 30th, 1899 to a crowd of thousands, including veterans, bands, and a former Confederate general.

Source

american

Type

Site

Identifier

1466

Date Issued

1899-01-01

Extent

m x m x m

Spatial Coverage

current,35.9252,-86.868917;

Europeana

Country

USA

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Our Confederate Soldiers (Franklin, Tennessee)

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Site Item Type Metadata

Wiki

https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/Our_Confederate_Soldiers______Franklin,_Tennessee_

Monument Type

Monument

Funded by

United Daughters of the Confederacy

State

Tennessee

County

Williamson

Affiliation

Confederate

City

Franklin