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Title	Entrance to Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Alternate Title	Confederate Cemetery Gate, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Date	1877, 1901- circa 1912
Genre	architecture
Material/Technique	limestone
Description	This stone gate and wall have a rusticated castle-like appearance. An inscription on the cornerstone of the gateway arch reads: "Erected in 1901 by the Daughters of the Confederacy, Chapter 81, Chattanooga, Tennessee, to commemorate the valor and the heroism that our Confederate Soldiers Displayed in the battle for our beloved southland in the war from 1861-1865 in fraternal recognition of N.B. Forrest Camp, UCV."
Historical note	Chattanooga's Confederate Cemetery, which holds more than 1100 Confederate burials, sits on three acres of land adjacent to the City Cemetery. Even though a 30 foot monument within Chattanooga's Confederate Cemetery was dedicated by the Ladies Memorial Society on 10 May 1877, this substantial limestone tower and arch and adjacent crenellated wall were not erected until several decades later by a local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy ( founded 1894) and a male fraternal organization, the United Confederate Veterans (founded 1889).
Subject	Cemeteries; Tombs and Sepulchral Monuments;United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Commemoration
Theme	The Persistence of Memory
Story	Monuments and Cemeteries
Geographic Location	United States -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga
Time period	1870-1879
Language	eng
Type	Still image
Format	image/jp2
Contributing Institution	Library of Congress
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Archival file	shades11/shades_loc_0035.tif