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Title
Rebel Martyr' Sam Davis Statue (Pulaski, Tennessee)
Source
american,visualworkssculpture,daughters
Type
Site
Identifier
1797
Date Issued
1906-01-01
Extent
m x m x m
Spatial Coverage
current,35.199223,-87.031345;
Europeana
Country
USA
Europeana Data Provider
"Rebel Martyr" Sam Davis Statue
Europeana Type
TEXT
Site Item Type Metadata
Wiki
https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/"Rebel_Martyr"_Sam_Davis_Statue
Monument Type
Statue - standing soldier
Funded by
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Inscription
(front base):
BORN OCT. 6, 1842, NEAR SMYRNA
RUTHERFORD COUNTY TENNESSEE
THOUGH A CONFEDERATE
SOLDIER IN THE LINE OF DUTY,
HE WAS EXECUTED AS A SPY
BY THE FEDERALS AT
PULASKI,NOV.27, 1863
"LET COME WHAT MUST,
I KEEP MY TRUST."
SAM DAVIS
(Proper Left - Base):
"If I had a thousand lives,
I would lose them all here
before I would betray my
friend or the confidence
of my informer."
(Proper Right - Base):
"Greater love hath no
man than this; that a
man lay down his life
for his friends.
(Rear Base): Erected by the Giles County Chapter U.D.C. Oct. 11, 1906
State
Tennessee
County
Giles
Affiliation
Confederate
City
Pulaski