Dougherty County Confederate Monument, (sculpture).

Dougherty County Confederate Monument, (sculpture).

Unknown (Italian), sculptor.

W.H. Miller Company, contractor. (possibly by)

Dougherty County Confederate Monument, (sculpture).

Dedicated Nov. 13, 1901. Relocated 1920s or 1930s. Relocated ca. 1990.

Sculpture: Italian marble and white Georgia marble; Base: granite.

Sculpture: approx. 14 x 3 x 3 ft.; Base: approx. 4 x 6 x 6 ft.

(On back of stump:) MADE IN ITALY (On front of base:) OUR CONFEDERATE/DEAD/1861-1865 (On left side of base:) THESE MEN NEED NO EULOGY/FOR "THEIR WORKS DO FOLLOW/THEM" (On right side of base:) THEY FOUGHT NOT FOR CON-/QUEST, BUT FOR LIBERTY AND/THEIR OWN HOMES (On rear of base:) THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED/UNDER AUSPICES OF THE LADIES/MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION OF DOUGH-/ERTY COUNTY, GEORGIA, TO THE MEN/WHO FOUGHT IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY IN DEFENSE OF CONSTITU-/TIONAL LIBERTY unsigned Founder's mark appears.

A Civil War soldier stands wearing a hat and the accouterments of a soldier. His proper right leg is against a tree stump. He holds his rifle in front of him, butt to the ground, his proper right hand above his proper left hand on the shaft. The sculpture is mounted on a squarish graduated base with a stepped bottom. The sides of the steps are rough-hewn. The sculpture is surrounded by a low wall and rests in a plot containing the graves of seven unknown Confederate soldiers.

History -- United States -- Civil War

Figure male -- Full length

Occupation -- Military -- Soldier

Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform

Outdoor Sculpture -- Georgia -- Albany

Administered by City of Albany, Cemetery Division, Albany, Georgia 31701

Located Oakview Cemetery, Cotton Street, Albany, Georgia 31701

Formerly located In park across from Albany Municipal Auditorium, Albany, Georgia

Formerly located Intersection of Jackson & Pine Streets, Albany, Georgia

The sculpture cost between $1,000 and 1,500. It honors all men who fought and died for the Confederacy. The sculpture was made in Italy. The Ladies Memorial Association probably ordered the sculpture through an Albany, Georgia firm, the W. H. Miller Company. Originally, it was installed at the intersection of Jackson and Pine Streets in Albany. In the 1920s or 1930s, the sculpture was moved to a site in a park across from the Albany Municipal Auditorium after it was knocked over by an automobile. The sculpture was relocated again around 1990 to its current site in Oakview Cemetery, also called Riverside Cemetery.

IAS files contain photocopies of two postcard images of the sculpture in its original location; and a photocopied photograph of the sculpture near the municipal auditorium. IAS files contain related excerpts from Isabell Smith Buzzett's "Confederate Monuments of Georgia," Atlanta: Atlanta Chapter No. 18, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1984, pg. 1; Frank M. McKenney's "The Standing Army," Alpharetta, GA: W. H. Wolfe Associates, 1993, pg. 52-53; and Ralph W. Widener's "Confederate Monuments: Enduring Symbols of the South and the War Between the States," Washington, D.C.: Andromeda Associates, 1982, pg. 41.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Georgia survey, 1994.

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