Monument Monday September 3, 2018

[Jimklag]

Monument to the men who fought at the battle of Five Forks, near Petersburg, Virginia.

 

[Jimklag]

North Carolina monument at the 3rd Winchester Battlefield.

 

[Buckeye Bill]

* The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Garfield Park Confederate Prisoner of War Monument) is a large granite monument that sits at the south entrance of Garfield Park in Indianapolis to commemorate the Confederate prisoners of war that died at Camp Morton. At 35 feet tall and located in the city's oldest public park, it is the most prominent of the very few Confederate memorials in the Union state of Indiana.

 

[Jimklag]

* The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Garfield Park Confederate Prisoner of War Monument) is a large granite monument that sits at the south entrance of Garfield Park in Indianapolis to commemorate the Confederate prisoners of war that died at Camp Morton. At 35 feet tall and located in the city's oldest public park, it is the most prominent of the very few Confederate memorials in the Union state of Indiana.

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As many times as I have been to Indianapolis and I have never seen this monument. Good one, Bill.

 

[CSA Today]

Confederate Monument at Bentonville



The monument is a granite column with a broad trapezoidal base on which the names of the Confederate dead from the Battle of Bentonville are inscribed. The column is topped by a cannonball-like sphere. It marks a mass grave containing approximately 360 Confederates who died at the Battle of Bentonville, March 19-21, 1865.

https://www.ncpedia.org/monument/confederate-monument

 

[bdtex]

Monument to the men who fought at the battle of Five Forks, near Petersburg, Virginia.
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I was gonna post my picture of the same monument today. Your picture is better than mine.

 

[bdtex]

The Pennsylvania Monument at Cold Harbor National Cemetery. Difficult monument to photograph. Just behind the cemetery wall and tall.

 

[Drew]

Clara Barton, Antietam National Battlefield Park

 

[jackt62]

Federal monument commemorating fallen soldiers at Groveton during 2nd Manassas campaign.

 

[rebel brit]

The Missouri monument at Vicksburg. Brother against Brother.

 

[mofederal]

Thanks for the great thread. I especially enjoyed the Missouri monument of course, but I enjoyed seeing all of them that have been posted.

 

[JOHN42768]

Great photos. Thanks

 

[Jimklag]

I posted this one on Facebook this morning - 1st New York Artillery, Battery L on Reynolds Ave. Gettysburg.

 

[James N.]

A day late, I know, I know... (Blame it on my local library being closed for the Labor Day holiday!) Here's another look at the Confederate Memorial at Shiloh - although it was my last month's entry in the Photo Contest, I've added additional views of the statuary groups this time around.

On the left as you face the monument, this above pair represents a Confederate cavalryman whose outstretched hand expresses his frustration at being unable to grapple with the enemy because of the heavily wooded terrain, and an officer whose head is bowed in resignation at the failure to destroy or drive into the Tennessee River the Federal army on the first day of the battle.

On the opposite side a Confederate infantryman has defiantly snatched up his flag from where it has fallen, while an artilleryman with his sponge-staff peers through the smoke and haze of battle. Below, the defeated Confederacy surrenders the laurel wreath of Victory to Death which overcame her commander Albert Sidney Johnston (seen in a relief profile below the group) and Night which brought an end to Confederate attacks - and more importantly, Federal reinforcements.

 

[rebel brit]

James N. James I'm not sure if you've already shown this plaque in a previous thread as I'm sure you're aware of it.
But for anyone who hasn't braved the snakes and ventured around the rear of the monument this fitting tribute is just below the three female figures.

 

[Cavalry Charger]

James N. thank you so much for the wonderful description of the Confederate monument at Shiloh. For me, having a little more insight helps in terms of appreciation.

 

[James N.]

James N. James I'm not sure if you've already shown this plaque in a previous thread as I'm sure you're aware of it.
But for anyone who hasn't braved the snakes and ventured around the rear of the monument this fitting tribute is just below the three female figures.
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James N. thank you so much for the wonderful description of the Confederate monument at Shiloh. For me, having a little more insight helps in terms of appreciation.

One salient fact I'd never realized or appreciated until my trip there this June is the reason the monument is located in the particular place it is. On my many previous visits it never struck me WHY it's here alongside the road between the Sunken Road/Hornets' Nest and Grant's Last Line instead of being in a more prominent location. I DID go behind the monument where I saw - but did not photograph - the sign because according to the modern interpretive markers, one of which explained the symbolism of the figures (though I already knew that) a trail was pointed out. It led a short distance to the markers in the woods behind the monument shown above and below. It seems this entire area around the monument was where Prentiss and the bulk of the remainder of his and W.H.L. Wallace's divisions surrendered around 5:30 pm on the afternoon of April 6, therefore making this the Confederate "High-Water Mark" of the battle, so to speak. (Wallace's mortuary monument, similar to Albert Sidney Johnston's, is also nearby on the spot where he was mortally wounded while attempting to escape.) There were over 2,200 Federal prisoners captured at Shiloh and most of them were bagged right here!

 

[Cavalry Charger]

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One salient fact I'd never realized or appreciated until my trip there this June is the reason the monument is located in the particular place it is. On my many previous visits it never struck me WHY it's here alongside the road between the Sunken Road/Hornets' Nest and Grant's Last Line instead of being in a more prominent location. I DID go behind the monument where I saw - but did not photograph - the sign because according to the modern interpretive markers, one of which explained the symbolism of the figures (though I already knew that) a trail was pointed out. It led a short distance to the markers in the woods behind the monument shown above and below. It seems this entire area around the monument was where Prentiss and the bulk of the remainder of his and W.H.L. Wallace's divisions surrendered around 5:30 pm on the afternoon of April 6, therefore making this the Confederate "High-Water Mark" of the battle, so to speak. (Wallace's mortuary monument, similar to Albert Sidney Johnston's, is also nearby on the spot where he was mortally wounded while attempting to escape.) There were over 2,200 Federal prisoners captured at Shiloh and most of them were bagged right here!

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I don't think I've ever seen a 'surrendered' or 'captured' marker before. Thanks for sharing James N.

 

[BigMuddy]

The Missouri monument at Vicksburg. Brother against Brother.
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Thanks for posting this one. I just looked it up a couple nights ago, remembering it from my trip there several years past. It is placed near the location where Missourians for both sides were engaged. I always wondered if they were talking to each other, and what they possibly said.

Dan