The Monument to Women of the Southern Confederacy

(Top)

1861  In Memory of the Women of Our Southland  1865

(Center)

Let this mute but eloquent

structure speak to generations

to come, of a generation of

the past. Let it repeat

perpetually the imperishable

story of our women of the 60s.

Monument to the Women of the Confederacy

It was during a 1900 Florida reunion of the United Confederate Veterans (UCV) that serious discussion of the possibility of a memorial to the Women of the Confederacy developed, and in 1901 the Florida Division of the UCV formally resolved ...

Monument to Women of the Confederacy

(South face)

Our Mothers

To the women of the Confederacy “Whose pious ministrations to our wounded soldiers soothed the last hours of those who died far from the objects of their tenderest love, whose domestic labors contributed much to supply the wants ...

Women of the Confederacy

To the women of the Confederacy, who kept intact the homes of the South, while the men of the South were fighting her battles, and who gave to their soldiers, their children, and their land the water of life, hope, ...

Women of the Confederacy Memorial

[South Side]:

1860

Affectionately

dedicated by

the Jefferson Davis

Memorial Association

to the women of

the Confederacy.

The living and the dead,

who midst the gloom of war

were heroines in the strife,

to perpetuate their noble

sacrifices on the altar of

our common country. Let

sweet incense forever

rise, till it reach them,

in robes ...

To the Women of the Confederacy

1861 - 65

(Front):

To those who died for a sacred cause, and to those who lived to win a nobler victory in time of peace.

(Side):

Whose fidelity, whose purity, whose courage, whose gentle genius in love and in counsel. Kept the home ...

South Carolina Women of the Confederacy Monument

[North Face]:

To The

South Carolina Women

Of The Confederacy

1861-1865

—

Reared

By The Men Of Their State

1909-11

[West face]:

In this monument

Generations unborn shall hear the voice

Of a grateful people

Testifying to the sublime devotion

Of the women of South Carolina

In their country's need.

Their unconquerable spirit

Strengthened the thin lines ...

To the North Carolina Women of the Confederacy

To the

North Carolina Women

of the Confederacy

Marker is on West Morgan Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org