Tennessee Confederate Women's Monument

Tennessee Confederate Women's Monument
Artist	Belle Kinney Scholz
Completion date	1926
Location	Nashville, Tennessee, United States

The Tennessee Confederate Women's Monument, also known as the Tennessee Monument to the Women of the Confederacy, is a bronze statue on the grounds of the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S..

The statue symbolizes women's role in helping the personnel who served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It was designed by Belle Kinney Scholz, who described it as:

It represents Fame supporting the wounded and exhausted Confederate soldier with her left arm while with her right hand she is placing a wreath upon the head of the Southern Woman, whose every nerve is vibrating with love and sympathy for the soldier and his cause, as expressed by the palm she is trying to place upon his breast, thoroughly unconscious that as her reward a crown is being placed upon her own head.

The dedication, held on October 10, 1926, took place inside the War Memorial Auditorium due to a downpour. It was attended by 800 people, including Governor Austin Peay, members of the United Confederate Veterans, the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, including the president of its Tennessee chapter, Mary Lou Gordon White.

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