Prattville Dragoons Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 1524 Chaplain Visits Fame Monument in NC

 Camp 1524 Chaplain Brantley and his wife visited the Fame monument in Salisbury NC on Friday Decemebr 27^th and placed a small Confederate flag there at the fencing surrounding the monument.  Fame, also called Gloria Victis ("Glory to the Defeated" or "Glory to the Conquered"), was cast in Brussels, in 1891, Fame is one of two nearly-identical sculptures by Frederick Ruckstull. The monument measures 23 feet "from the bottom of the pedestal".  The bronze statue features an allegorical angel with outstretched wings dressed in robes with a laurel wreath on her head. In one hand she supports a dying soldier holding a battered rifle, while in her other hand—held high—she holds a second laurel wreath.  On the pink granite base created from Balfour Quarry stone from nearby Granite Quarry, an inscription says, "Deo Vindice," which can be translated "With God as our champion" or "With God as our vindicator." The dying soldier was modeled from an 1861 photograph of Confederate Lt. Henry Howe Cook of Franklin, Tennessee.The monument was placed by the UDC and dedicated on on May 10, 1909. [Wikipedia]