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    (Confederate Monument, Yazoo County), (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown, sculptor.
    Title: 
    (Confederate Monument, Yazoo County), (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1909. Dedicated July 8, 1909.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: gilded metal with green patina; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 8 x 6 x 3 ft.; Base: approx. 16 x 6 x 4 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (Incised on base:) 1861-1865/AS AT THERMOPYLAE, THE GREATER/GLORY WAS TO THE VANQUISHED/THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED TO/PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THE/NOBLE COURAGE, CONSTANCY AND/SELF SACRIFICING DEVOTION OF THE/WOMEN OF THE CONFEDERACY AND/THE PATRIOTISM AND HEROIC VALOR/OF THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS/AND ALL WHO FOUGHT ON LAND OR/SEA FOR THE COUNTRY AND THE/CAUSE THEY LOVED SO WELL./BY JEFFERSON DAVIS CHAPTER/YAZOO CAMP U.C.V. NO. 176/AND THE SONS OF CONFEDERATE/VETERANS AND PEOPLE OF YAZOO COUNTY/DEDICATED JULY 8, 1909 unsigned
    Description: 
    A uniformed Confederate soldier and a woman in period dress stand atop a decorative pedestal on a tiered base. The figures face each other, with the soldier holding out his proper left hand. He holds a rifle at the center, in his proper right hand. The woman is extending a flagstaff with flag, held diagonally in both hands.
    Subject: 
    History -- United States -- Civil War
    Figure group
    Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform
    Object -- Other -- Flag
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Mississippi -- Yazoo City
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Ricks Memorial Library, 310 North Main Street, Yazoo City, Mississippi 39194
    Located Triangle of Main & Washington, Yazoo City, Mississippi
    Remarks: 
    Erected under the auspices of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis Chapter no. 216. The Board of Supervisors of Yazoo County appropriated $3,000 for the monument and the Board of Aldermen of the Yazoo City appropriated $500. The local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy raised the remaining $1,500 needed. The inscription was composed by Sam S. Griffin, then Chancery Clerk for the County and also a Confederate veteran.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Mississippi survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS MS000362
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