WE CARE NOT WHENCE
THEY CAME,
DEAR, IN LIFELESS CLAY
WHETHER UNKNOWN OR KNOWN TO FAME
THEIR CAUSE AND COUNTRY STILL THE SAMETHEY DIED AND WORE THE GRAY
Description from Smithsonian:
"A Civil War soldier stands with proper left leg forward. He holds his rifle by the barrel in his proper right hand with butt to the ground. He wears a wide-brimmed hat askew on his head and a bed roll is draped over his proper left shoulder. The sculpture is mounted atop a tall, tapered shaft with crossed Confederate flags in low relief at the bottom front. The shaft is set upon a square base on top of an elevated, basin-like foundation, and may have once operated as a fountain. Near the bottom of the base, a cannon barrel projects from one side, above two crossed swords in relief.
The sculpture honors Confederate soldiers from Chicot County who served during the Civil War. The sculpture was installed by the Captain McConnell and the George K. Cracraft Chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the citizens of Chicot County. The base may have once functioned as a fountain"
The monument stands in the middle of the street in front of the courthouse near the lake.