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Feb 3 '12
To The Confederate DeadHere Rest “Till Roll Call”The Men Of GettysburgTread lightly for each man bequeathed Ere placed beneath this sod,His ashes to this native Land His gallant soul to God.On Fame’s Eternal camping ground,Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with silent roundThe bivouac of the Dead  “Silence” is the title of the full-length female figure wearing long, flowing, layered robes and a head covering. Her right hand is raised to her mouth; the right index finger in front of her lips. She holds an inverted torch in her left hand; the flame of the torch rests on the ground near her left foot. The marble sculpture stands on a marble and granite base.  Once part of the 1875 Confederate Monument in Forsyth Park, Savannah, Georgia, she was moved in 1878, and now stands in the middle of Laurel Grove Cemetery’s Soldier’s Circle, a grassy knoll with the remains of twelve Confederate soldiers and Captain John Tripplet, who lies directly in front of the figure.  All were killed at Gettysburg in 1863. The poem above is etched on the sides of the marble base.

To The Confederate Dead
Here Rest “Till Roll Call”
The Men Of Gettysburg

Tread lightly for each man bequeathed 
Ere placed beneath this sod,
His ashes to this native Land 
His gallant soul to God.

On Fame’s Eternal camping ground,
Their silent tents are spread, 
And Glory guards, with silent round
The bivouac of the Dead 

“Silence” is the title of the full-length female figure wearing long, flowing, layered robes and a head covering. Her right hand is raised to her mouth; the right index finger in front of her lips. She holds an inverted torch in her left hand; the flame of the torch rests on the ground near her left foot. The marble sculpture stands on a marble and granite base.  Once part of the 1875 Confederate Monument in Forsyth Park, Savannah, Georgia, she was moved in 1878, and now stands in the middle of Laurel Grove Cemetery’s Soldier’s Circle, a grassy knoll with the remains of twelve Confederate soldiers and Captain John Tripplet, who lies directly in front of the figure.  All were killed at Gettysburg in 1863.

The poem above is etched on the sides of the marble base.

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