Soldiers and Sailors Monument

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Gift of Mrs. George H. Daniel

This reduction of the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument was made from bronze remaining from the casting of the monument on Libby Hill, in Richmond, VA. The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association formed in 1889 with the purpose to erect a monument that would be modeled after "Pompey's Billar" in Alexandria Egypt. The Richmond monument depicts a bronze Confederate private standing on top of a pillar, which is composed of 13 granite blocks representing each of the Confederate states. The monument was completed on the southern end of 29th Street in 1894, at an approximate cost of $30,000.