Walter Hancock
Walker Kirtland Hancock of Gloucester, Mass., took over as chief carver on the Stone Mountain
Confederate
Memorial in 1963 after having been selected by the Stone Mountain
Confederate Memorial Advisory
Committee from an international competition held in 1960. Carving
commenced in 1964 under the eye of the
chief carver and was completed by 1972. Hancock used Augustus
Lukeman's models and sketches for the
basis of his design of the carving. He made only slight modifications on
the second sculptor's plans. These
alterations included the lowering of the head of Robert E. Lee's horse,
Traveller, so that Jefferson Davis could
occupy a more prominant postion in the carving, and the omission of the
horses legs from the finished carving.
