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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 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 Wa ...
in the Hilltop neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio
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, 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
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...
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 Phillips ...
* List of Confederate monuments and memorials
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