 Surrounding the base are statues of CSA generals Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Albert Johnston, and CSA president Jefferson Davis.All of these men were leaders of the Confederate States of America, which seceded from the United States of America, leading to the American Civil War in 1861.As previously installed, the inscription on the south-facing side below the medallion read, "The brazen lips of Southern cannon thundered an unanswered anthem to the God of Battle".