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The Confederate Soldier Memorial, also known as Confederate Monument and Memorial Arch, is an outdoor Confederate memorial installed at
The monument was erected in 1902 and commemorates the 2,260 Confederate soldiers buried at the site. The memorial is and includes a bronze figure of a soldier standing on a granite arch, holding a rifle. Its original wooden arch, which was inscribed with the word "AMERICANS", was replaced with the current stone arch in 1902.
The statue on top was toppled and destroyed by vandals overnight on August 22, 2017, and was repaired and re-installed in May 2019.Repaired statue of Confederate soldier reinstalled at Camp Chase cemetery
Retrieved July 21, 2019
Camp Chase
Camp Chase was a military staging and training camp established in Columbus, Ohio in May 1861 after the start of the American Civil War. It also included a large Union-operated prison camp for Confederate prisoners during the American Civil War ...
in the Hilltop neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio
Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, an ...
, in the United States.
Description and history
The monument was erected in 1902 and commemorates the 2,260 Confederate soldiers buried at the site. The memorial is and includes a bronze figure of a soldier standing on a granite arch, holding a rifle. Its original wooden arch, which was inscribed with the word "AMERICANS", was replaced with the current stone arch in 1902.
The statue on top was toppled and destroyed by vandals overnight on August 22, 2017, and was repaired and re-installed in May 2019.Retrieved July 21, 2019
See also
*1902 in art
Events from the year 1902 in art.
Events
* June – The group '' Boadicea and Her Daughters'' (1856–83) by Thomas Thornycroft (died 1885) is cast in bronze and erected on the Victoria Embankment in London.
* July – Cecil and Wilfred Phillip ...
* 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 ...
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