Confederate Monument at Loudon Park Cemetery

Description

View of a Confederate monument at Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. The monument was sculpted by Frederick Volck (1833-1891) and features a Confederate soldier standing above a pair of young children, or possibly cherubs. A subsection of this cemetery has been federally owned since 1961 and is known as Loudon Park National Cemetery. This section holds the remains of over 2,000 Union soldiers and 650 Confederate soldiers killed during the American Civil War.

Creator

Holyland, John, 1841-1931

Date

circa 1870

Language(s)

English

Collection Number

PP159

Dimensions

4 x 7 inches

Object ID

PP159.10

Extent

1 print

Resource ID

2024

Digital Publisher

Digital resource provided by the Maryland Center for History and Culture

Rights

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