The Confederate Mound Monument, (sculpture).

The Confederate Mound Monument, (sculpture).

Unknown, sculptor.

Underwood, John C., Gen., designer.

Fearn, Louis R., architect.

Van Amringe Granite Company, contractor.

Southern Granite (Atlanta, GA), contractor.

The Confederate Mound Monument, (sculpture).

Installed 1893. Dedicated May 30, 1895. Relief panels added ca. 1910-1911.

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Figure: bronze; Column: Georgia granite; Relief panels: bronze.

A bronze figure of a Confederate infantry soldier, arms folded across his chest, hat in hand, and kit hanging at his side, stands atop a square granite column. Three bronze relief panels at the base depict "The Call to Arms"on the east side, "A Veteran's Return Home" on the west side, and "A Soldier's Death Dream" on the south side. The monument is surrounded by the Confederate dead buried in concentric trenches.

History -- United States -- Civil War

Figure male -- Full length

Occupation -- Military -- Soldier

Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform

Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Chicago

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

Located Oak Woods Cemetery, 1035 East 67th Street, Chicago, Illinois

The monument honors Confederate prisoners of war who died while imprisoned in Chicago's Camp Douglas. The prisoners were first buried in a cemetery plot next to the prison camp, but after the Civil War, they were exhumed and reburied in the City Cemetery at Lincoln Park. When the City Cemetery closed, the remains were moved to a two acre plot of land in Oak Woods Cemetery. The monument for the burial mound was erected with funds raised by the Confederate Veterans Association. The figure is adapted from a painting entitled "Appomattox" by John A. Elder. General John C. Underwood head of the United Confederate Veterans division west of the Alleghenies, designed and solicited contributions for the monument. The bronze relief panels by Van Amringe were aded around 1910-1911, and may have been part of a new base design. IAS files contain an excerpt from American Cemetery (Jan. 1986), which details the history of the monument.

National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, IL0149, IL5059, 1989.

Bach, Ira J. and Mary Lackritz Gray, "A Guide to Chicago's Public Sculpture," Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Monumental News, June 1895, Nov. 1910.

National Cemetery Administration Memorials Inventory Project, 2002-2005.

Bach, Ira J. and Mary Lackritz Gray, "A Guide to Chicago's Public Sculpture," Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983, pg.350.

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