Frederick in Frederick County, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Confederate Sentinel
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, May 1, 2017
1. Confederate Sentinel Marker
By the Ladies
Monumental Association
of Frederick County
In honor of the soldiers
of the Confederate Army
who fell in the battles of
Antietam, Monocacy, and elsewhere
and are here buried.
Honor To the Brave
To the Unknown Soldiers
Whose bodies here rest
We Cannot inscribe their
names upon tablets of stone
But we may hope to read them
on a purer and unchangeable
Record.
Soldier Rest thy warfare oer.
Sleep the sleep that knows
Not breaking:
Dream of battled fields no more.
Days of Danger nights of waking.
Their praises will be sung
In some yet unmoulded tongue.
Far on in Summers that we
shall not see.
Erected 1880 by Ladies Monumental Association of Frederick County.
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Civil.
Location. 39° 24.281′ N, 77° 24.972′ W. Marker is in Frederick, Maryland, in Frederick County. Memorial can be reached from South Market Street south of Mt Olivet Boulevard, on the right when traveling south. In Mount Olivet Cemetery. Touch for map.
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Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Civil War Children's Memorial (here, next to this marker); Mount Olivet Cemetery (within shouting distance of this marker); Elizabeth Hughes Potts (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Richard Potts (about 300 feet away); John Ross Key and Anne Charlton Key (about 300 feet away); Daniel Hughes (about 300 feet away); Frederick's Diarist (about 500 feet away); Confederate Row (about 500 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Frederick.
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, May 1, 2017
2. Confederate Sentinel Marker
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, May 1, 2017
3. Soldier Rest thy Warfare Oer
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking:
Dream of battled fields no more.
Days of Danger nights of waking.
These lines are from a poem of that title by Sir Walter Scott.
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, May 1, 2017
4. Their Prases will be Sung..
In some yet unmoulded tongue.
Far on in Summers that we
shall not see.
These lines are a paraphrase of part of Tennyson's Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, December 23, 2008
5. Confederate Sentinel Monument
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, June 17, 2021
6. Confederate Sentinel Marker
Without the Statue
Without the Statue
The Confederate Sentinel statue was toppled in July 2020. The AP reported that, “The statue had been beheaded and could be seen on the ground splattered in red paint. Cemetery Superintendent Ronald Pearcey told the newspaper it likely won’t be repaired. ”
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, May 1, 2017
7. Confederate Sentinel
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, May 1, 2017
8. Confederate Sentinel
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, May 1, 2017
9. Confederate Sentinel
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, May 1, 2017
10. Confederate Sentinel
Credits. This page was last revised on January 7, 2023. It was originally submitted on May 2, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. This page has been viewed 504 times since then and 13 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on May 2, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. 6. submitted on June 18, 2021, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. 7. submitted on May 2, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. 8, 9, 10. submitted on May 4, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.
