Monument in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
The Confederate Soldier Memorial, also known as Confederate Monument and Memorial Arch, is an outdoor Confederate memorial installed at Camp Chase in the Hilltop neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, 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 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.
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