"The spirit of chivalry was not dead in 1861 when the soldiers of The Confederacy went for to battle for the love of home and country, and for the preservation of constitutional liberty. How well they acted their part in the gigantic drama of war which for four years convulsed the American continent and held the attention of all the world, let the truthful and impartial historian tell. Let him record how they wrested victory from foes who far surpassed in numbers, in excellence of arms and equipment, and in all the provisions and munitions of war, and who were supported by the material, moral, and political power of almost the entire civilized world. Let him record with what courage they met death and danger, with what fortitude they endured sickness and imprisonment, with what unflagging cheerfulness they sustained privations and sufferings. And above all, let him record with what sublime endurance they mey defeat. And how in povery and want, broken in health, but not in spirit, they have re-created the greatness of the South, and made it again the sweetest land on Earth. In grateful acknowledgement of their prowess in war, and of their achievements in peace, this monument is erected. That it may teach the generations of the future the story of the matchless unfading and undying honor which the Confederal solier won. "

"The world shall yet decide, in truth's clear, far-off light, that the soldiers who wore the gray, and died with Lee, were in the right."

"Though conquered we adore it. Love the cold, dead, hands that bore it!"

The long message is stark and strident

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