Hood's Texas Brigade Monument
Monument in Austin, Texas, U.S.
30°16′27″N 97°44′22″W / 30.27407°N 97.73936°W / 30.27407; -97.73936The Hood's Texas Brigade Monument is an outdoor memorial commemorating members of John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade of the Confederate Army installed on the Texas State Capitol grounds in Austin, Texas, United States. The monument was sculptured by Pompeo Coppini and erected in 1910. It is topped by a bronze statue of a Confederate soldier.[1]
Content
On its shaft is the Texas State Flag crossed with the "Blood-Stained Banner" version of the Confederate Flag. Below it are the initials for the Confederate States of America, CSA. The base has quotes praising the Texas Brigade from the President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, Commander of the Confederate Army, Robert E. Lee and Confederate General, Stonewall Jackson.
See also
Texas portal
Visual arts portal
- 1910 in art
- List of Confederate monuments and memorials
References
- ^ "Hood's Texas Brigade Monument". Texas State Preservation Board. Archived from the original on August 13, 2022. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
External links
Media related to Hood's Texas Brigade (Texas State Capitol) at Wikimedia Commons
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Pompeo Coppini
- Confederate Soldiers Monument (1903)
- Terry's Texas Rangers Monument (1907)
- Hood's Texas Brigade Monument (1910)
- John Hunt Morgan Memorial (1911)
- Statue of George Washington (1927; Portland, Oregon)
- Littlefield Fountain (1933)
- Statue of Albert Sidney Johnston (1933)
- Statue of Jefferson Davis (1933)
- Statue of Jim Hogg (1933)
- Statue of John Henninger Reagan (1933)
- Statue of Robert E. Lee (1933)
- Statue of Woodrow Wilson (1933)
- Alamo Cenotaph (1939)
- Statue of George Washington (1955; Austin, Texas)
- Texas Centennial half dollar (1934)
- Scottish Rite Cathedral
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