Confederate Memorial

A Confederate memorial honors dead soldiers with words declaring that they suffered, sacrificed, dared, and died in obedience to duty as they understood it, not for fame, reward, place, rank, ambition, or necessity. It was dedicated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and bears the Latin phrase "Victrix causa diis placuit sed victa catoni." Inscriptions around the frieze and base include 1861-1865 and the words, "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks." It also includes the seals of the 13 Confederate States, plus Maryland. The sculptor was M. Ezekiel, in Rome, MCMXII, and it was made by Aktien-Gesellschaft Gladensbeck Bronze Foundry of Berlin-Fredrichshagen, Germany.

Arlington, Virginia · United States