Relief: bronze; Stele and base: pinkish gray granite
Type:
Sculptures-Relief
Sculptures-Stele
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Washington District of Columbia
Administered by Vicksburg National Military Park 3201 Clay Street, Box 349 Vicksburg Mississippi 39180
Located Frontage Road, east of Washington Street Vicksburg Mississippi
Date:
Dedicated Sept. 1915
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Mississippi survey, 1992.
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MS7301, 1989.
Vicksburg National Military Park, 1988.
Image on file.
A. Schaaf/Jno. Williams, NY (On bronze tablet beneath portrait:) LAWRENCE S. ROSS/COL. 6TH TEXAS CAVALRY/COMMANDING 2ND BRIGADE/CAV. DIV. JOHNSTON'S ARMY signed Founder's mark appears.
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Summary:
A relief portrait, bust-length, of Colonel Lawrence S. Ross. He wears a uniform, but no hat. He has a full beard and moustache. The relief is on a granite stele, which rests on a low rectangular granite base.
