Administered by Delta Cultural Center 141 Cherry Street Helena-West Helena Arkansas 72342
Located Battery C Park End of Yorkshire Street Helena-West Helena Arkansas
Date:
2013. Installed before March 2014
Notes:
State of Arkansas, Department of Arkansas Heritage, Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, 2016.
unsigned
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Summary:
This sculpture depicts the Confederate assault on Battery C with three Confederate Soldiers (one officer, and two riflemen) charging across the field toward the ramparts manned by two Union Soldiers, one rifleman, and one cannon crewman. The cannoneer pulls the lanyard on a 12-pounder howitzer behind the wooden breastworks of the battery. The figures are Cor-Ten steel but their accessories - rifles, sword, ramrod - are stainless steel.
