Sculpture: Italian white marble from Seravezza, Italy; Base: Texas pink granite; chapel: painted steel and glass
Type:
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures-Gravestone
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by State of Texas General Services Commission 1711 San Jacinto Street Austin Texas 78701
Located Texas State Cemetery 9th & Comal Streets Austin Texas
Date:
Modeled 1900. Commissioned 1902. 1903-1904
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Texas, Austin survey, 1994.
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.
Hendricks, Patricia D. & Becky Duval Reese, "A Century of Sculpture in Texas 1889-1989," (Austin, TX: Univ. of Texas Press, 1989), pg. 11-13.
Reichman, Bette Redman, ed., "Sculpture in Austin," (Austin, TX: The Univ. of Texas at Austin, College of Fine Arts, Office of the Dean, 1989), pg. 13.
Image on file.
(On proper right side of sculpture's integral base, on "ground" upon which stretcher lies, in script:) Elisabet Ney. fec. Austin, Tex. 1903 (On the sculpture's granite base near the figure's head:) ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON/BY THE STATE OF TEXAS/IN THE YEAR OF 1904 (Bronze (?) seal) (On circular plaque:) CITIZEN OF THE REPUBLIC 1836 1846 OF TEXAS (Plaque situated immediately at the bottom of the granite block beneath the sculpture:) ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON/GEN ARMY OF MISSISSIPPI/CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY/FEB 2 1803 APRIL 6 1862 (Carved into the small end of the granite base toward the general's feet:) BRIGADIER GENERAL IN THE ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS/AND ALSO SECRETARY OF WAR; AN OFFICER IN THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE WAR WITH MEXICO; AND A/GENERAL IN THE ARMY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES./FELL AT SHILOH, APRIL 6, 1862/WHILE IN COMMAND OF THE/CONFEDERATE FORCE IN DEFENSE OF THE RIGHTS OF SELF GOVERNMENT/AND OF/THE CONSTITUTION. signed
Louisiana Purchase International Exhibition, St. Louis, 1904.
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Summary:
General Johnston is depicted lying on a stretcher as he was carried from the battlefield. He wears his Confederate Army uniform, with sash around waist and cloak fastened at his neck. His eyes are closed and his head is supported by rushes wrapped in a Lone Star flag. The lower half of his body is covered with a Confederate flag.The sculpture is placed in a painted steel Victorian Gothic chapel. At some point after the installation, a peaked vitrine constructed of Plexiglas with a mild steel framework was mounted over the sculpture.
