Irwin County Confederate Monument, (sculpture).

Irwin County Confederate Monument, (sculpture).

Unknown, sculptor.

Irwin County Confederate Monument, (sculpture).

Installed Oct. 4, 1911. Relocated ca. 1940.

Sculpture: white marble; Base: marble.

Sculpture: approx. 5 x 2.5 x 2.5 ft.; Base: approx. 25 ft. x 110 in. x 110 in.

(Side of lower base:) IN MEMORY OF/OUR/CONFEDERATE/SOLDIERS (Rear middle of base:) SILENTLY THIS STONE/PROCLAIMS THE DEATHLESS/FAME OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT/AND FELL. (Front middle of base:) TELL IT AS YOU MAY,/IT NEVER CAN BE TOLD!/SING IT AS YOU WILL/IT NEVER CAN BE SUNG/THE STORY OF THE GLORY/OF THE MEN WHO WORE THE GRAY (Other side of lower base:) ERECTED BY THE/MARY V. HENDERSON CHAPTER,/UNITED DAUGHTERS/OF THE CONFEDERACY,/TO THE/CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS/OF OUR BELOVED SOUTHLAND./1911. unsigned

A Confederate soldier stands wearing a brimmed campaign hat and a bedroll slung over his proper right shoulder. He has a sharp Vandyke beard and his proper left hand holds a musket by the barrel, with stalk on the ground. A bayonet is under his proper right arm and his proper right hand gestures. Behind the soldier's proper left leg is a cut stump. The soldier is mounted upon a tall, inscribed, multitiered base with a column-like upper section and a graduated lower section. On the front and rear of the lower section of the base a cannon barrel projects outward amidst a bas-relief of crossed cavalry sabers.

History -- United States -- Civil War

Figure male -- Full length

Occupation -- Military -- Soldier

Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform

Outdoor Sculpture -- Georgia -- Ocilla

Administered by United Daughters of the Confederacy, Mary V. Henderson Chapters, 823 West 6th Street, Ocilla, Georgia 31774

Located Courthouse Square, Second Street & Irwin Street, Ocilla, Georgia 31774

Sponsored by the Mary V. Henderson Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and paid through subscription. About 1940, the monument was relocated from a street intersection two blocks away to its current location. For related article and historic photograph of the unveiling of the monument, see: Ocilla Star, Aug. 4, 1911. For related information see: "History of Irvin County," Clements, 1932, pg. 120. IAS files contain related excerpts from Isabell Smith Buzzett's "Confederate Monuments of Georgia," Atlanta: Atlanta Chapter No. 18, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1964, pg. 34; and, Frank McKenney's "The Standing Army," Alpharetta, GA: Wolf Publications, 1993, pg 76.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Georgia, Atlanta survey, 1994.

Ocilla Star, Aug. 4, 1911.

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