Southern Steel I a Bronze Civil War Sculpture Allegory by James Muir Bronze Allegorical Sculptor-Artist

"Southern Steel I"

9"H

edition 25

Although the industrial might of the South was sometimes lacking in the production of steel and other war materials, the steel of the individual soldier tempered in the fires of battles from First Manassas to Appomatox, proved always to be sharp and keen.
This Rebel cavalryman wears his captured Union crossed sabers upside down as a sign of unyielding defiance.