IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES
IN THE EXPLOSION OF C. S. LABORATORIES ON BROWN'S ISLAND -- RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, MARCH 13, 1863

THOUGH THEIR HANDS WERE SMALL AND NOT HARDENED IN BATTLE
THEIR SERVICE TO THE CONFEDERACY LOOMS LARGE.

MAY THIS STONE SERVE AS A PERPETUAL MEMORIAL
TO THE DEDICATION AND SACRIFICE
OF THESE FORGOTTEN AND UNSUNG VICTIMS.

"LET US REMEMBER THEM AS TIME AND TIDE MORE OR IN ENDLESS RHYME WHILE BUD AND BLOSSOM, HILL AND TREE
REMEMBER THEM, SO SHALL WE"
                                          OLIVER REEVES

ERECTED BY VIRGINIA DIVISION,
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY

DEDICATED SEPTEMBER 15, 2001

Scores of women and children workers were burned, disfigured and killed in the explosion. Recently, the National Park Service, Cynthia MacLeod, refused to honor these Confederate women and children with a monument marker because of political correctness.