Draw the Sword (and Throw Away the Scabbard)

Dum Spiro Spero

Posted 12 Sep 07 in Civil War, Monument Project

Dedicated on the 100th anniversary of the July 2d battle, the South Carolina Memorial contains carved palmetto trees and the front details the names of each South Carolina unit to fight at Gettysburg. It stands where Kershaw’s Brigade attacked the Rose Farm and the Wheatfield. The front of the monument also contains a line from Henry Timrod’s “Ode at Magnolia Cemetery” appropriate to all Confederate soldiers at Gettysburg: “There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies, by mourning beauty crowned.”

Dum Spiro Spero is the state motto of South Carolina. It is Latin for “While I breathe, I hope.”

Main Shaft - Front

Reverse (Facing West)

Main Side (Facing East)

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Tags: Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate State, Gettysburg, Monument Project, South Carolina

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