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The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument was a monument in
The statue shows Glory supporting a fallen soldier, his standard lowered but her wreath of History held high. The inscription at the base of the monument read, "GLORIA VICTIS", meaning "Glory to the Vanquished" and ''To The Soldiers and Sailors of Maryland in the Service of The
Baltimore
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, Maryland
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, installed in 1903 and removed in 2017.
Description and history
The Maryland Daughters of the Confederacy raised money for the monument privately and commissioned a sculptor from New York City, F. Wellington Ruckstuhl to build it. The monument was dedicated on May 2, 1903.
The statue shows Glory supporting a fallen soldier, his standard lowered but her wreath of History held high. The inscription at the base of the monument read, "GLORIA VICTIS", meaning "Glory to the Vanquished" and ''To The Soldiers and Sailors of Maryland in the Service of The Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States or the Confederacy was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. The Confeder ...
, 1861–1865.'' On the right side it read: " Deo vindice", on the left: " Fatti maschii, parole femine" and on the rear ''Glory Stands Beside Our Grief. Erected by the Maryland Daughters of the Confederacy, February 1903.''
The monument was marked in June 2015, with "black lives matter
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" scrawled across its side in the aftermath of the Charleston church shooting. In August 2017, its statue was covered with red paint. It was removed during the same month along with all other Confederate monuments in the city after the Baltimore City Council unanimously voted on August 14, 2017, to have it removed along with the Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument, the Roger B. Taney Sculpture, and the Confederate Women's Monument
The Confederate Women's Monument was an outdoor memorial by J. Maxwell Miller, installed in Baltimore, in the U.S. state of Maryland in 1917.
The statue was removed in August 2017. At the August 14, 2017, City Council session, they also voted u ...
.
See also
*List of Confederate monuments and memorials
In the United States, the public display of Confederate monuments, memorials and symbols has been and continues to be controversial. The following is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials that were established as public displays and symb ...
* List of public art in Baltimore
This list of public art in Baltimore provides an introduction to public art which is accessible in an outdoor public space in Baltimore. Because the collection of public art is extensive and continues to grow, the list is incomplete. A fuller ...
* Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
More than 100 monuments and memorials to the Confederate States of America (CSA; the Confederacy) and associated figures have been removed, all but five since 2015. Some have been removed by state and local governments; others have been torn do ...
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