The Confederate Memorial Carving is the largest bas-relief sculpture in the world & depicts three Confederate leaders of the Civil War: President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. The sculpture was cut 42 feet (13 m) deep into the mountain, measures 90 feet (27 m) in height and 190 feet (58 m) in width, and lies 400 feet (120 m) above the ground.[1]
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The Confederate Memorial Carving is featured in Outbreak.
It was first mentioned in 50 years after people when a thunderstorm roves in and lightning strikes Atlanta, which covers in kudzu that was turned into a tinderbox, causing the entire city to burn and the spreading inferno reached Stone Mountain where it light up the sculpted faces of the carving.
It was formally featured in 5,000 years after people showing the information of Stone Mountain, stating to be the largest piece of exposed granite in the world in 825 feet high and 5 miles in circumference. The constructions of the Confederate Memorial Carving begins in the 1920s when the United Daughters of the Confederacy raised money for work to begin a massive sculpture depicting Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson, on the northern side of the rock. Mark Lassiter stated that granite is the hardest and most competent rocks on Earth making it hardly a crack in the rock. After nearly 50 years and several works of the sculptors, it was completed in 1972 where the finished carved tablet measured 90 by 190 feet.
After 5,000 years, 90% of the carving remains completely intact, the depiction in the carving are still recognizable and some areas are covered in plants. Mark Lassiter stated that it will get an impression that it will last forever in Stone Mountain.
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