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Submitted: 9/12/20 • Approved: 9/15/20 • Last Updated: 9/18/20 • R34327-G0-S3
Sergeant
Company C
Battalion ofVirginia Military Institute Cadets
October 28, 1844 – March 27, 1917
After the war, he completed his degree at VMI, and a few years later went to Berlin, where he studied at the Prussian Academy of Art. He moved to Rome, where he lived and worked most of his life, selling his works internationally, including as commissions in the United States. He has been described as a "Confederate expatriate".
Ezekiel was a "proud Southerner", and the Confederate battle flag hung in his Rome studio for 40 years. He was a postwar friend of Robert E. Lee, who recommended he become "an artist"
Some of the most celebrated statues by Ezekiel were of heroes of the Confederacy. The most famous of his monuments is the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, which he thought of as the "crowning achievement of his career."
Contributed on 9/12/20 by tomtodd
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