Confederate Memorial
Fort Myer, United States
<i>Panel 1</i>: "Not for fame or reward, not for place or for rank; not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity; but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it; these men suffered all, sacrificed all, dared all, and died." <br><br> <i>Panel 2</i>: To our dead heroes, by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Victrix causa diis placuit sed victa catoni. <br><br> <i>Inscriptions around frieze and base</i>: <br> 1861-1865. <br><br> "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks." <br><br> <i>[Seals of the 13 Confederate States, plus Maryland.]</i><br> M. Ezekiel, Sculptor; Rome, MCMXII. <br><br> Made by Aktien-Gesellschaft Gladensbeck Bronze Foundry, Berlin-Fredrichshagen-Germany.