Edward Ward Carmack Statue
1858-1908
Statue At The State Capitol Of Tennessee
By Sculptor: Nancy McCormick
Carmack's Pledge To The South
The
south is a land that has known
sorrows; It is a land that has
broken the ashen crust and
moistened it with tears; A land
scarred and riven by the powshare
of war and billowed with the graves
of her deat; But a land of legend,
A land of Song, A Land Of Hallowed
and heroic memories.
To
that land every drop of my blood,
ever fibre of my being, every pulsation
of my heart, is consecrated forever.
I was
born of her womb; I was
nurtured at her breast; and when
my last hour shall come, I pray
God that I may be pillowed upon
her bosom and rocked to sleep
with her tender and encircling
arms.
