The granite pedestal has an inscription on each of its four sides; the fourth being part of the last stanza of the Bivouac of the Dead,[6] written by Theodore O'Hara, who is also buried in Frankfort Cemetery.[7]
Face:
Our Confederate Dead 1861–1865 They sleep—what need to question now if they were right or wrong? They know, ere this, whose cause was just in God the Father's sight. They wield no warlike weapons now return no foeman's thrust; Who but a coward would revile an honored soldier's dust.[8]
West side:
This marble minstrels voiceful stone in deathless songs shall tell When many a vanished age hath flown, the story how ye fell. Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, Nor time's remorseless doom, shall dim one ray of holy light that gilds your glorious tomb.[4]
Reverse:
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.[4]
East side:
To every man upon this earth death cometh soon or late, and how can man die better than facing fearful odds for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods?[8]
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