Pennsylvania Monument, (sculpture).

Pennsylvania Monument, (sculpture).

Clark, Carroll J., sculptor.

Clark's Monumental Works, fabricator.

Pennsylvania Monument, (sculpture).

Dedicated Nov. 16, 1910.

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Sculpture: bronze; Structure: Georgia marble, Mt. Airy granite, and Italian marble.

Overall: approx. 40 ft. x 6 ft. x 6 ft.; Sculpture: approx. H. 8 ft.; Structure: 38 x 24 x 24 ft.

(On each side of stone structure, above each archway:) PENNSYLVANIA (On one bronze plaque:) THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY AUTHORITY OF AN ACT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE APPROVED JUNE 13TH 1907. / TO COMMEMORATE THE PATRIOTIC DEVOTION, HEROISM, AND SELF-SACRIFICE OF THE SOLDIERS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS WHO DIED WHILE CONFINED AS PRISONERS OF WAR IN THE CONFEDERATE MILITARY PRISON AT SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA, DURING THE WAR OF THE REBELLION AND WERE INTERRED AMONG THE UNKNOWN UNION SOLDIERS AND SAILORS IN THE EIGHTEEN TRENCHES AT THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF THIS MONUMENT. A GRATEFUL COMMONWEALTH RENDERS THIS TRIBUTE TO THEIR HONOR AND MEMORY. (On second bronze plaque:) MANY PENNSYLVNIA SOLDIERS ARE BURIED HERE. THEY WERE CITIZENS OF A STATE WHOSE FOUNDERS CAME ACROSS THE SEA AND ESTABLISHED A COMMONWEALTH WHERE ALL MEN WOULD BE EQUAL AND, UNDER JUST LAWS, FREE TO ENJOY THEIR INALIENABLE RIGHTS IN TH EPURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, UNMOLESTED BY KING OR NOBLE OR PREJUDICED CLASS. THEY USED THE SWORD ONLY TO PRESERVE THE PEACE AND UNITY OF THEIR COUNTRY. TWICE ON THE SOIL OF THEIR STATE WERE CRUCIAL STRUGGLES FOR THE REPUBLIC. FIRST AT VALLEY FORGE, THAT TESTED THE COURAGE AND FORTITUTED OF THE PATRIOT ARMY; THAN AT GETTYSBURG, THAT PROVED THE NATION COULD NOT BE BROKEN. RESPECTING THE EXAMPLE OF THE ROMANS, WHO NEVER RAISED EMBLEMS OF TRIUMPH OVER A FOE THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA ERECTES THIS MONUMENT OT PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD AND NOT AS A COMMEMORATION OF VICTORY. // THEIR MEMORY CANNOT BE FORGOT;/FOREVER SHALL MEN'S HEARTS REVERE/THEIR LOYALTY, AND HOLD THIS SPOT/SACRED BECAUSE THEY PERISHED HERE.

A bronze figure of a Civil War soldier stands atop a square stone structure adorned on three sides with large stone archways. The soldier, who represents a prisoner of war, wears a small cap and a short jacket. He stands with his left leg forward and his right hand at his waist. The interior of the stone structure is lined on the back wall with two bronze inscription plaques honoring Pennsylvania soldiers held as prisoners of war in the Confederate military prison at Salisbury, North Carolina. A third bronze plaque bears an image of the Salisbury Confederate Prison Camp.

History -- United States -- Civil War

Figure male -- Full length

Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform

Occupation -- Military -- Soldier

State of Being -- Other -- Imprisonment

Outdoor Sculpture -- North Carolina -- Salisbury

Administered by United States Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration, 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20420

Located Salisbury National Cemetery, 202 Government Road, Salisbury, North Carolina 28144

The memorial was erected by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in honor of Pennsylvania soldiers who died while held as prisoners of war in the Confederate military prison at Salisbury, North Carolina during the Civil War. The cost of the memorial was $20,000. IAS files contain a copy of the dedication program.

National Cemetery Administration Memorials Inventory Project, 2002-2005.

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Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

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