The McNeel Marble Works of Marietta, Georgia, was founded in 1892 by Morgan Louis McNeel and his brother, R. M. McNeel. Its location near the Blue Ridge Mountains provided the firm with access to areas where marble and granite could be quarried. The firm is best remembered for the

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monuments it constructed in the southern states of the

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Selected works

* ''Chester Confederate Monument'' (1905) * John Brown Gordon statue, pedestal,

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(1907) * ''At Rest Arms'', Thomaston, Georgia, (1908) * ''Comrades'', Statesboro, Georgia, (1909) * ''Jasper County Confederate Monument'' aka ''Comrades'' Monticello, Georgia, (1910) * Illinois Monument, Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, (1914) * Florida's Tribute to the Women of the Confederacy,

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, (1915), Allen George Newman, sculptor * Statue of Sterling Price (1915), Keytesville, Chariton County,

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, Allen Newman, sculptor * Arkansas Memorial at Vicksburg National Military Park, 1954. The memorial was designed by William Henry Deacy.

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