Albert Sidney Johnston

Austin, Italy

Albert Sidney Johnston is a memorial statue of General Albert Sidney Johnston by German American sculptor Elisabet Ney. The piece is a life-size recumbent male figure rendered in marble sculpture. It depicts the General at the time of his death in the Battle of Shiloh during the American Civil War.

Completed in 1903, the piece resides atop Johnston's tomb in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas, installed there in 1905.

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