[1] The monument is a public artwork by American sculptor Gutzon Borglum located on Seminary Ridge, West Confederate Avenue,[2] in the Gettysburg National Military Park.

[3] One man kneels injured on the ground, pointing towards the enemy with his proper left hand while two men wield guns and look forward.

A 1913 North Carolina commission of Civil War veterans presented a monument proposal after visiting the Gettysburg Battlefield,[citation needed] and after World War I, the North Carolina United Daughters of the Confederacy and Governor Angus McLean continued the planning in 1927. with a commission visiting the battlefield on September 28, 1926.

to purchase and landscape the site and to commission Gutzon Borglum, presumed to have been a Ku Klux Klan member, who was approached while working on Mount Rushmore.

After a 1985 restoration required lifting by helicopter [8] for shipment to Cincinnati,[9] a fence was added in 1993;[6] and after the 1995 Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture!