Sons of Charleston Confederate Monument
(North face)
In Memory
of the sons of Charleston
who
fell around her walls;
who
sleep on many battlefields
in
Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, and
North Carolina
and who
lie in distant graves around
their Northern prisons.
— • —
These died for their State
(Rectangular plaque:)
Testimonial of Ladies Memorial Association
to its founder and first president
Mary Amarinthia
Snowden,
Died
23rd
Feb.
1898.
We chant no requiem where she's sleeping nor cry "Alas!"
with sorrow's breath, we send our triumph song to heaven,
and this its music - faithful unto death.E. B. Cheesborough
Designed by James G. Holmes
(Smaller plaque on front of base, beneath a palm branch:) Wade Hampton
(On smallest plaque on front of base:) Heath & Roberts
Columbia
S. C.
(West face)
In Memoriam
The Confederate States of America: 22 February 1869 * Deo Vindice *
(South face)
This Bronze
preserves the memory
of the
Heroic Dead
from
every part of Carolina,
and from
her sister states of the South,
who fell
in the defence (sic) of this city.
In proud and grateful remembrance
of their devotion, constancy and valour;
who against overwhelming odds
by sea and by land
kept Charleston virgin and invincible
to the last Founder's mark appears.
(East face)
(On medallion:) Sumter
1864
Marker is on Cunnington Avenue Loop, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
