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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: July 1985
Caption:
Battle of Perryville Confederate Memorial | Additional Description: Artist: Peter-Burghard Stone Company, fabricator. •
Title: (Confederate Monument), (sculpture). •
Dates: Dedicated Oct. 8, 1902. •
Medium: Figure: limestone; Base: stone. •
Dimensions: Figure: approx. 6 ft. x 24 in. x 18 in. • Base: approx. 14 ft. x 96 in. x 96 in. •
Inscription: (On front of base, incised:) NOR BRAVER BLED
FOR A BRIGHTER LAND.
NOR BRIGHTER LAND
HAD CAUSE SO GRAND. (On lower front of base, incised:) CONFEDERATE/MEMORIAL (On one side of base:) (Names of 14
men) And 444 unknown heroes •
Nor wreck, nor change or winters blight.
Nor times remorseless doom,
Shall dim one ray of holy light,
That gilds from glorious tomb. • (On back of base:) 1861 1865 •
Erected By the State of
Kentucky •
Commissioners:
R. J. Breckinridge •
B.O. Rodes •
J. H. Baughman •
S. D. Vanpelt •
Architects and Builders:
Peter-Burchard (sic), St. Co.
Louisville, KY •
Nor shall your glory be forgot
while fame her record Keeps
Or honor points the hallowed spot
where valor proudly sleeps. •
(On the other side of base:) (List of 23 names) •
On fame's eternal camping ground
their silent tents are spread.
And glory guards with solemn round
the Bivouac of the dead.
Description: Standing Confederate soldier with both hands grasping barrel of a rifle with butt resting on ground near his
proper right foot. He wears brimmed hat. Base has inscriptions and a relief of a furled Confederate Flag. Monument is
surrounded by a fence.
Subject: History -- United States -- Civil War
Figure male -- Full length
Occupation -- Military -- Soldier
Dress -- Accessory -- Hat
Object -- Weapon -- Gun
Object -- Other -- Flag
SIRIS Control Number: IAS KY000081
Submitted: August 9, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p73185
File Size: 0.247 Megabytes
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