Fragile Legacies of Dixie

More Alabama Legacies

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The Monument is in downtown Demopolis, AL.

Unknown named church in Boligee, AL..if you zoom in on the monument above "Our Confederate Dead"...it looks like there was a picture there....sad to say there are monuments in the rear of the church...but you can't read them..."Gone with Age"...

SWR's Richard

Captain Nathan Carpenter House Eutaw, Alabama

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Captain Nathan Carpenter organized a company of men called the Confederate Rangers on the lawn in front of the house in 1862 . He was elected as captain of the unit. It would become Company B of the 36th Regiment Alabama Infantry. The company would see action in the battles of Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Nashville, and the Atlanta Campaign.

Captain Nathan Carpenter

SWR's Richard

Confederate Monument Tupelo Mississippi.

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Inscription:
"The loyal and true. Their faith sealed with their most precious blood."

SWR's Unreconstructed

Confederate marker in Texas

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Hood County, Action Texas
Action Cemetery

I am a Texan but not from here. I attended a funeral here Friday and took this on the way out. On a side note, Davey Crockett's wife is buried here also.

Gary Grable

Monument to the Women of the Confederacy

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In the southwest corner of Legislative Plaza, downtown Nashville, there is a bronze sculpture with three forms -- a large female figure holding smaller male and female figures in her lap. This enigmatic monument is the Tennessee Monument to the Women of the Confederacy and its simple plaque reads:

Erected by the State of Tennessee to commemorate the heroic action of the women of Tennessee during the War Between the States. Dedicated October 10, 1926, Belle Kinney Sculptor. Plaque placed by the Tennessee Historical Commission.

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Inscription. (South face)
Our Mothers
To the women of the Confederacy “Whose pious ministrations to our wounded soldiers soothed the last hours of those who died far from the objects of their tenderest love, whose domestic labors contributed much to supply the wants of our defenders in the field, whose zealous faith in our cause shone a guiding star undimmed by the darkest clouds of war, whose fortitude sustained them under all the privations to which they were subjected, whose floral tribute annually expresses their enduring love and reverence for our sacred dead; and whose patriotism will teach their children to emulate the deeds of our revolutionary sires.” Jefferson Davis
United Confederate Veterans Honor the Memory of the Confederate Women of Mississippi.

(East face)
Our Daughters
Devoted daughters of the heroic women and noble men, they keep the mounds of loved ones sweet with flowers and perpetuated in marble and bronze the granite characters of a soldiery that won the admiration of the world and a womanhood whose ministrations were as tender as an angels benediction.

(North face)
Our Sisters
Their smiles inspired hope; their tender hands soothed the pangs of pain; their prayers encouraged faith in god; and when the dragon of war closed its fangs of poison and death, they like guardian angels, entwined their hands in their brothers arms, encouraged them to overcome the losses of war and to conquer the evils in its wake, adopting as their motto:
“Lest We Forget”.

(West face)
Our Wives
They loved their land because it was their own, and scorned to seek another reason why, calamity was their touchstone; and in the ordeal of fire their fragility was tempered to the strength of steel. Angels of comfort, their courage and tenderness soothed all wounds of body and of spirit more than medicines. They girded their gentle hearts with fortitude, and suffering all things, hoping all things fed the failing fires of patriotism to the end. The memory and example of their devotion shall endure.

The Polk monument at Pine Mt. GA

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The Polk monument at Pine Mt. GA

Inscription.
South
1861. 1865.
In Memory Of Lieut. Gen. Leonidas Polk
Who fell on this spot June 14, 1864.

Folding his arms across his breast, He stood gazing on the scenes below, Turning himself around as if To take a farewell view.

Thus standing a cannon shot from the enemy's guns crashed through his breast, and opened a wide door through which his spirit took its flight to join his comrades on the other shore.

Surely the earth never opened her arms to allow the head of a braver man to rest upon her bosom.

Surely the light never pushed the darkness back to make brighter the road that leads to the lamb.

And surely the gates of heaven never opened wider to allow a more manly spirit to enter therein.

Erected by J. Gid & Mary J. Morris. 1902.

Thanks to:
J.w. Binion

Covington, Tipton County TN.

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Date Installed or Dedicated: 05/29/1895

Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Citizens of Covington and Tipton County TN, Sons of Confederate Veterans Fort Wright #2506

From 1876-1941, Confederate Soldier’s Reunions were held at Brighton, Covington, and Glenn Springs. The great American cavalry general, Nathan Bedford Forrest, made his last public address to his Confederate comrades of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry at Covington in 1876.

Chuck Demastus

Faithful Slaves Fort Mill, South Carolina

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Erected 1895 by Sam'l E. White in grateful memory of earlier days. With approval of the Jefferson Davis Memorial Association.

Dedicated to the faithful slaves who, loyal to a sacred trust, toiled for the support of the army with matchless devotion and sterling fidelity [and] guarded our defenseless homes, women and children during the struggle for the principles of our "Confederate States of America." 1860-1865

Confederate Statue Alexandria, VA

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"Appomattox," the seven foot bronze statue erected in 1889 in honor of Alexandria's Confederate dead, is located at the intersection of South Washington and Prince streets where 800 Alexandria troops mustered on May 24, 1861.

The names of more than one hundred men who went to war but did not return are engraved on the granite base of the monument. The R.E. Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans commissioned the statue, sculpted by M. Casper Buberl based on a soldier in the battlefield painting by John A. Elder. The finished statue was so well-received that replicas began popping up throughout the South and the R.E. Lee Camp applied for and received a copyright for the statuary design in 1892.

Today, the monument is owned by the Mary Custis Lee-17th Virginia Regiment Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The chapter, whose museum is located nearby at 806 Prince Street, documented the statue in a 1990s survey for the "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" project by Heritage Preservation and the Smithsonian.

Palmyra, Missouri Massacre Monument

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Palmyra Massacre Monument

From the Palmyra, Missouri Courier.

Saturday last, the 18th instant, witnessed the performance of a tragedy in this once quiet and beautiful city of Palmyra, which, in ordinary and peaceful times, would have created a profound sensation throughout the entire country, but which now scarcely produces a distinct ripple upon the surface of our turbulent social tide.

It will be remembered by our readers that on the occasion of Porter's descent upon Palmyra, he captured, among other persons, an old and highly respected resident of this city, by name Andrew Allsman. This person formerly belonged to the Third Missouri Cavalry, though too old to endure all the hardships of very active duty. He was, therefore, detailed as a kind of special or extra provost-marshal's guard or cicerone, making himself generally useful in a variety of ways to the military of the place. Being an old resident, and widely acquainted with the people of the place and vicinity, he was frequently called upon for information touching the loyalty of men, which he always gave to the extent of his ability, though acting, we believe, in all such cases with great candor, and actuated solely by a conscientious desire to discharge his whole duty to his Government. His knowledge of the surrounding country was the reason of his being frequently called upon to act as a guide to scouting parties sent out to arrest disloyal persons. So efficiently and successfully did he act in these various capacities, that he won the bitter hatred of all the rebels in this city and vicinity, and they only waited the coming of a favorable opportunity to gratify their desire for revenge. The opportunity came at last, when Porter took Palmyra. That the villains, with Porter's assent, satiated their thirst for his blood by the deliberate and predetermined murder of their helpless victim no truly loyal man doubts. When they killed him, or how, or where, are items of the act not yet revealed to the public. Whether he was stabbed at midnight by the dagger of the assassin, or shot at midday by the rifle of the guerrilla; whether he was hung and his body hidden beneath the scanty soil of some oaken thicket, or left as food for hogs to fatten upon, or whether, like the ill-fated Wheat, his throat was severed from ear to ear, and his body sunk beneath the wave, we know not. But that he was foully, causelessly murdered it is useless to attempt to deny.

When General McNeil returned to Palmyra, after that event, and ascertained the circumstances under which Allsman had been abducted, he caused to be issued, after due deliberation, the following notice:

"PALMYRA, MO., October 8, 1862.

"JOSEPH C. PORTER:

"SIR: Andrew Allsman, an aged citizen of Palmyra, and a non-combatant, having been carried from his home by a band of persons unlawfully arrayed against the peace and good order of the State of Missouri, and which band was under your control, this is to notify you that unless said Andrew Allsman is returned, unharmed, to his family within ten days from date, ten men, who have belonged to your band, and unlawfully sworn by you to carry arms against the Government of the United States, and who are now in custody, will be shot as a meet reward for their crimes, among which is the illegal restraining of said Allsman of his liberty, and, if not returned, presumptively aiding in his murder.

"Your prompt attention to this will save much suffering.

"Yours, &c.,

"W. R. STRACHAN,

"Provost-Marshal-General, District of Northeastern Missouri.

"Per order of brigadier-general commanding McNeil's column."

A written duplicate of this notice he caused to be placed in the hands of the wife of Joseph C. Porter, at her residence in Lewis County, who it was well known was in frequent communication with her husband. The notice was published widely, and as Porter was in Northern Missouri during the whole of the ten days subsequent to the date of this notice, it is impossible that, with all his varied channels of information, he remained unapprised of General McNeil's determination in the premises.

Many rebels believed the whole thing was simply intended as a scare, declaring that McNeil did not dare [?] to carry out the threat.

The ten days elapsed, and no tidings came of the murdered Allsman. It is not our intention to dwell at length upon the details of this transaction. The tenth day expired with last Friday. On that day ten rebel prisoners, already in custody, were selected to pay with their lives the penalty demanded. The names of the men so selected were as follows: Willis Baker, Lewis County; Thomas Humston, Lewis County; Morgan Bixler, Lewis County; Herbert Hudson, Rails County; John M. Wade, Rails County; Marion Lair, Rails County; Capt. Thomas A. Sidner, Monroe County; Eleazer Lake, Scotland County, and Hiram Smith, Knox County. These parties were informed on Friday evening that unless Mr. Allsman was returned to his family by 1 o'clock on the following day, they would all be shot at that hour. Most of them received the announcement with composure or indifference. The Rev. James S. Green, of this city, remained with them during that night, as their spiritual adviser, endeavoring to prepare them for their sudden entrance into the presence of their Maker. A little after 11 a.m. the next day, three Government wagons drove to the jail; one contained four and each of the others three rough board coffins. The condemned men were conducted from the prison and seated in the wagons, one upon each coffin. A sufficient guard of soldiers accompanied them, and the cavalcade started for the fatal grounds. Proceeding east to Main street, the cortege turned and moved slowly southward as far as Malone's livery stable; thence turning east, it entered the Hannibal road, pursuing it nearly to the residence of Col. James Culbertson; there, throwing down the fences, they turned northward, entering the fair grounds (half a mile east of the town), on the west side, and, driving within the circular amphitheatrical ring, paused for the final consummation of the scene.

The ten coffins were removed from the wagons and placed in a row 6 or 8 feet apart, forming a line north and south, about 15 paces east of the central pagoda or music stand, in the center of the ring. Each coffin was placed upon the ground, with its foot west and head east. Thirty soldiers of the Second Missouri State Militia were drawn up in a single line, extending north and south, facing the row of coffins. This line of executioners ran immediately at the east base of the pagoda, leaving a space between them and the coffins of 12 or 13 paces. Reserves were drawn up in line upon either bank [flank] of these executioners.

The arrangements completed, the doomed men knelt upon the grass between their coffins and the soldiers, while the Rev. R. M. Rhodes offered up a prayer. At the conclusion of this, each prisoner took his seat upon the foot of his coffin, facing the muskets which in a few moments were to launch them into eternity. They were nearly all firm and undaunted, two or three only showing signs of trepidation.

The most noted of the ten was Capt. Thomas A. Sidner, of Monroe County, whose capture at Shelbyville, in the disguise of a woman, we related several weeks since. He was now elegantly attired in a suit of black broadcloth, with a white vest. A luxurious growth of beautiful hair rolled down upon his shoulders, which, with his fine personal appearance, could not but bring to mind the handsome but vicious Absalom. There was nothing especially worthy of note in the appearance of the others. One of them, Willis Baker, of Lewis County, was proven to be the man who last year shot and killed Mr. Ezekiel Pratt, his Union neighbor, near Williamstown, in that county. All the others were rebels of lesser note, the particulars of whose crimes we are not familiar with.

A few minutes after 1 o'clock, Colonel Strachan, provost-marshal-general, and Reverend Rhodes shook hands with the prisoners, two of them accepting bandages for their eyes. All the rest refused. A hundred spectators had gathered around the amphitheater to witness the impressive scene. The stillness of death pervaded the place. The officer in command now stepped forward, and gave the word of command, "Ready, aim, fire." The discharges, however, were not made simultaneously, probably through want of a perfect previous understanding of the orders and of the time at which to fire. Two of the rebels fell backward upon their coffins and died instantly. Captain Sidner sprang forward and fell with his head toward the soldiers, his face upward, his hands clasped upon his breast and the left leg drawn half way up. He did not move again, but died immediately. He had requested the soldiers to aim at his heart, and they obeyed but too implicitly. The other seven were not killed outright, so the reserves were called in, who dispatched them with their revolvers.

It seems hard that ten men should die for one. Under ordinary circumstances it would hardly be justified; but severe diseases demand severe remedies. The safety of the people is the supreme law. It overrides all other considerations. The madness of rebellion has become so deep seated that ordinary methods of cure are inadequate. To take life for life would be little intimidation to men seeking the heart's blood of an obnoxious enemy. They could well afford to make even exchanges under many circumstances. It is only by striking the deepest terror in them, causing them to thoroughly respect the lives of loyal men, that they can be taught to observe the obligation of humanity and of law.

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If there ever was a hell on Earth, Elmira Prison was that hell

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Confederate Monument Elmira NY

"I speak in all reverence when I say that I do not believe such a spectacle was seen before on earth...On they came, a ghastly tide, with skeleton bones and lustreless eyes, and brains, bereft of but one thought, and hearts purged of but one feeling -- the thought of freedom, the love of home." Comment by a resident of Elmira, N.Y. seeing the prisoners arrival.

If there ever was a hell on Earth, Elmira Prison was that hell, but it was not a hot one, for the thermometer was often 40 degrees below zero. There were about six thousand Confederate prisoners, mostly from Georgia and the Carolinas. We were housed in long prison buildings, say one hundred and twenty feet long and forty feet wide, three tiers of bunks against each wall. A big coal stove every thirty feet was always kept red hot; but for these stoves, the most of us would have frozen. Around each stove was a chalk mark, five feet from the stove, marking the distance we should keep, so that all could be warm. We were thinly clad and not half of us had even one blanket. Our rations were ten ounces of bread and two ounces of meat per day. My weight fell from 180 to 160 in a month. We invented all kinds of traps and deadfalls to catch rats. Every day Northern ladies came in the prison, some followed by dogs or cats, which the boys would slip aside and choke to death. The ribs of a stewed dog were delicious, and a broiled rat was superb.....From the Confederate Veteran

Jewish Confederate's Magnolia Cemetery

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Two of the six Jewish Confederate Officers buried in the Magnolia Cemetery ,Augusta GA. that were honoured on Confederate Memorial Day 17 April 2010. B/Gen E Porter Alexander #158 Augusta GA.

Lake View Cemetery Seattle, Washington

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A monument you might not expect to find in the Pacific Northwest. In honor of the "United Confederate Veterans," the organization Daughters of the Confederacy commissioned the work and installed it in ceremony in the cemetery in 1926:
Robert E. Lee rendered in bronze is long gone as are any other adornments that could be peeled away.

Story HERE

Columbia, North Carolina and stands in dedication to the "memory of the patriotic sons of Tyrrell County

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This monument stands in downtown Columbia, North Carolina and stands in dedication to the "memory of the patriotic sons of Tyrrell County who fell in the service of the Confederate States." The monument depicts a Confederate soldier, with inscriptions on all four faces of the pedestal.

The front face features a picture of Gen. Robert E. Lee and reads:

THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY THE TYRRELL MONUMENT ASSOCIATION, A. D. 1902
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. MARK MAJETTE, ABNER ALEXANDER, THOMAS L. JONES, J. S. CAHOON, and C. E. TATEM.
FINANCE COMMITTEE. MRS. B. V. McCLEES, MRS. J. C. MEEKINS Sr., MISS LINA B. ALEXANDER.
PRESIDENT. LT. COL. WILLIAM F. BEASLEY.

IN MEMORY OF THE PATRIOTIC SONS OF TYRRELL COUNTY WHO FELL IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES.

GENERAL JAMES JOHNSTON PETTIGREW.
HIS NORTH CAROLINIANS WENT FARTHEST AT
GETTYSBURG, PA.

The second face reads:

WAR COMMENCED AT FORT SUMTER, S. C., APRIL 12, 1861.

OFFICERS Company A, 32nd N. C. Troops.
J. H. THOMAS, Capt.
L. L. HASSELL and F. F. PATRICK, 1st Lts.
HENRY ARMSTRONG, HOLLOWAY ARMSTRONG, G. W. BATEMAN, J. C. DUGUID, 2nd Lts.
ABNER ALEXANDER, 2nd Lt. 61st N. C. Troops.
JAMES JARVIS, 2nd Lt. 2nd N. C. Cavalry.
J. W. Simmons, 1st Lt. 2nd N. C. Cavalry.
FIELD OFFICERS OF 32nd N. C. TROOPS TAKEN FROM CO. A.
E. C. BRABBLE, (Currituck Co.) Colonel.
D. G. COWAN, (Bertie Co.) Lt. Col.
HENRY G. LEWIS, (Tyrrell Co.) Major.

AS A TRIBUTE TO COMRADS WHO HONORABLY SERVED THE CONFEDERATE CAUSE TO THE END.

WILLIAM M. OWENS, CAPT.
CO. G, 2nd N. C. CAVALRY
BRANDY STATION, VA.

The third face reads:

IN APPRECIATION OF OUR FAITHFUL SLAVES

CONFEDERATES LIVING IN TYRRELL COUNTY WHEN THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED:
ABNER ALEXANDER, B. V. ALEXANDER, NELSON ALEXANDER, W. W. ALEXANDER, W. J. BARNES, THOS. BASNIGHT, D. D. BRICKHOUSE, F. L. BRICKHOUSE, J. S. CAHOON, W. R. CARAWAN, 2nd Lt. CO. H, 33rd N. C. TROOPS, W. G. COLSTON, A. A. COMBES, J. L. COOPER, W. S. DAVENPORT, M. G. ELLIOTT, W. L. GIBSON, THOMAS L. JONES, W. C. KEMP, W. W. KEMP, W. F. KNOWLES, JAMES LITCHFIELD, J. K. NICHOLS, JAMES PHELPS, JOHN RHODES, J. A. SAWYER, S. L. SAWYER, W. J. SAWYER, EDWARD SEXTON, W. E. SHALLINGTON, B. S. SPENCER, A. H. TATEM, C. E. TATEM.

TO THE NOBLE WOMEN OF TYRRELL COUNTY, WHOSE DEVOTION TO OUR CAUSE AND SACRIFICES IN ITS BEHALF, AND FOR THEIR LOVED ONES IN THE FIELD, ENTITLE THEM TO RANK WITH THE HEROINES OF ALL AGES.

NELSON McCLEES, 1st LT.
EDENTON BELL BATTERY
FORT ANDERSON, N. C.

The fourth face reads:

WAR ENDED AT APPOMATTOX, C. H., VA., APRIL 9, 1865.

WE LOVINGLY DEDICATE THIS TABLET TO THE MEMORY OF MARY ALEXANDER BEASLEY, WHO WAS BORN IN TYRRELL COUNTY, A. D. 1811, AND DIED IN TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, IN 1892. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF HENRY AND CLARKEY ALEXANDER, AND DEVOTED THE FOUR YEARS OF OUR WAR TO NURSING OUR SOLDIERS, WHO LOVED TO CALL HER "MOTHER BEASLEY." SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF Lt. Colonel W. F. BEASLEY, 71st N. C. TROOPS, WHO WAS THE YOUNGEST OFFICER OF HIS RANK IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.

THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER WON AND IS ENTITLED TO THE ADMIRATION OF ALL WHO LOVE HONOR, AND LIBERTY.

WILLIAM MORRIS,
SAILOR ON MERRIMAC
HAMPTON ROADS, VA.

Wirtz Memorial, Andersonville, GA.

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It is the only memorial in the US to a convicted war criminal.

Wirtz was unfairly singled out for prosecution for the deplorable conditions at the Confederate prison.

"Discharging his duty with
such humanity as the harsh
circumstances of the times,
and the policy of the foe
permitted, Captain Wirz
became at last the victim of a
misdirected popular clamor."

More HERE

Photo,
Scott F Lewis

The Confederate Powder Works Chimney in Augusta, GA

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"The Confederate Powder Works was the only large scale structure that was commissioned and paid for by the Confederate States national government. The facility consisted of 26 buildings that stretched 2 miles along the canal in Augusta and provided black powder for Southern soldiers throughout the War for Southern Independence. The chimney is the only remaining portion of the facility."

Photo compliments of:
Scott F. Lewis

Photo compliments of:
PalmettoPatriot
SLM News

THE CONFEDERATE CEMETERY IN CHATTANOOGA

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THE CONFEDERATE CEMETERY IN CHATTANOOGA

In 1867 the bodies of 887 soldiers who died in Chattanooga Jan. 1 to May 31, 1863 (the weeks immediately following the battle of Murfreesboro), were moved from a cemetery close to the Tennessee River, where they had been temporarily interred, to the Confederate Cemetery.

Confederate Dead monument Texas State Capitol

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Inscription:

Died For State Rights Guaranteed under the Constitution The people of the South, animated by the spirit of 1776, to preserve their rights, withdrew from the Federal compact in 1861.The North resorted to coercion.

The South, against overwhelming numbers and resources, fought until exhausted.

During the war, there were twenty two hundred and fifty seven engagements;

In eighteen hundred and eighty two of these, at least one Texas regiment took part.

Number of men enlisted:
Confederate Armies, 680,000; Federal Armies, 2,859,132,
Losses from all causes:
Confederate, 437,000; Federal, 486,216

Confederate Monument Perryville (Boyle County)

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Caption: Confederate Memorial
Additional Description: Confederate Monument Perryville State Historic Site (Boyle County) Limestone figure on pedestal, 1902 Front (South) Inscription: Nor braver bled for a brighter land, no brighter land had a cause so grand. Confederate Memorial East Inscription: (Names of 23 men killed) On flames eternal camping ground, their tents are spread, and glory guards with solemn round -- the bivouac of the dead. Rear (North) Inscription: Erected by the State of Kentucky Commissioners: R. J. Breckinridge, B. O. Rodes, S. D. Van Pelt Architects & Builders Peter-Burghard, St. Co., Louisville -- Nor shall your glory be forgot -- while fame her record keeps -- or honor points the hallowed spot – where valor proudly sleeps. West Inscription: (Names of 14 men killed and a note that 470 unknown soldiers are also buried there) Nor wreck, nor change, or winters blight -- nor times remorseless doom shall dim one ray of holy light, that gilds your glorious tomb.

Confederate Monument Perryville, KY. Goodknight Farmhouse

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Inscription: Erected by the United States to Mark the Burial Place of an Unascertained Number of Confederate Soldiers Said to Have Died While Prisoners of War at the Goodknight Farmhouse from Wounds Received at the Battle of Perryville, October 8, 1862 Whose Graves Cannot Now Be Identified and Whose Names Are Unknown.

This simple, seven-foot headstone is ornamented with the inscription and a decorative cap with a scalloped design. It was probably erected in 1928. at what is now

Vandals Hit Cemetery

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Along with flowers and Confederate flags, there is now yellow crime scene tape marking the graves of several Hays County founders in the historic Kyle Cemetery.

The Hays County Sheriff’s Department received a call on Saturday that around 30 gravesites in the cemetery on Old Stagecoach Road had been vandalized.

The headstones — some more than six feet tall — were knocked over with many fallen to the ground, severely damaging some and shattering others.

Vandals Hit Cemetery

Arkansas Boy Martyr of the Confederacy

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David Owen Dodd (1846 - 1864) , known as the
"Boy Martyr of the Confederacy," was hanged as a
Confederate spy by Union forces at Little Rock,
January 8, 1864

More on this young man HERE

Dodd's Grave
Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, AR

50 headstones vandalized in Fayetteville's oldest cemetery

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Story HERE

Some of the damaged gravesites dated back to the Civil War or earlier, including that of Cyrus Murphy, a confederate soldier in the 38th N.C. Infantry.

Old Douglas, the Confederate camel

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"Old Douglas" Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Confederate companies took various mascots to war with them. An Arkansas regiment took a wildcat, a Louisiana regiment fittingly took a pelican. Most unusual of all was the 43rd MS Infantry's "Old Douglas" the camel, who served with the unit until killed by Yankee sharpshooters at Vicksburg; he has a tombstone in that city's Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Confederate monument located in Saint Cloud, Florida.

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As you can see, it is a fairly recent addition to the fading legacy of the righteous battle our Confederate forebears fought.

Sincerely,
Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.

Gettysburg’s Mississippi State Monument

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From the monument:

Mississippi
July 1st 2nd 3rd 1863

On this ground our brave sires fought for their righteous cause;
In glory they sleep who give to it their lives
To valor, they gave new dimensions of courage
To duty its noblest fulfillment
To posterity, the sacred heritage of honor.

This monument was erected in 1973 to illustrate “the bravery, devotion, and sacrifice of the Mississippi soldier in the face of great odds.”

Located at the position occupied by Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade on July 2, 1863. At Gettysburg, Mississippi had eleven infantry regiments, one infantry battalion, one cavalry regiment, and one artillery battery. Mississippi’s casualty rate of 35%

Whitehall Memorial Park

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Confederate monument at Whitehall Memorial Park
Goldsboro News Argus, NC

Brock Townsend & daughter Dixie

New Tennessee monument at Shiloh

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New Tennessee monument at Shiloh
This monument was placed on the battlefield 2002.. Almost 150 years after the April, 1862 battle.

The notion of a Tennessee monument was hatched by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). Because the park’s enabling legislation requires that states sponsor new monuments, the UDC turned to Tennessee, which ultimately provided $125,000 in matching funds for the $280,000 project.

Other donors included the UDC, the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) and private individuals.

River of Death

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Many of the Stones River, Confederate dead are buried in a mass grave of unknown soldiers at Evergreen Cemetery in Murfreesboro

Between December 31, 1862, and January 2, 1863, a fierce battle took place in Rutherford County. When it was over, the Southern army retreated and the Union army took the field. In the process, more than 23,000 Americans were killed, missing or wounded -- giving Stones River the highest percentage of casualties of any battle in the Civil War.

Myrtle Hill Confederate Cemetary in Rome, GA.

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ERECTED BY THE WOMEN OF ROME TO THE MEMORY OF THE SOLDIERES OF FLOYD COUNTY, GEORGIA, WHO DIED IN DEFENCE OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA 1861-1865.

Twin Oaks Plantation, Alabama

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Captain Nathan Carpenter organized a company of men called the Confederate Rangers on the lawn in front of the house in 1862 . He was elected as captain of the unit. It would become Company B of the 36th Regiment Alabama Infantry. The company would see action in the battles of Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Nashville, and the Atlanta Campaign. Nathan Carpenter died on May 5, 1907, with Marjorie following him on February 14, 1911.

The house is now owned by the Charles and Jan Bullock. The Bullocks began a restoration of Twin Oaks in 1995.

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Culpepper Confederate States Army
Forward The Colours God Speed

Marianna Arkansas Confederate Memorial

2010-03-27T00:22:00.001-05:00

Marianna Arkansas Confederate Memorial

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SHNV's Chuck Demastus

Confederate Monument, Livingston, AL

2010-03-16T16:25:00.000-05:00

SWR's, Richard Culpepper's GGGGrandpa's Sons are Listed on this Monument...9 Sons Fought For The 40th AL Infantry Reg Vol., and also the 37th.

Culpepper Confederate States Army
Forward The Colours God Speed

Confederate Cemetery in Lauderdale Springs, MS

2010-03-11T18:08:00.002-05:00

Culpepper Confederate States Army
Forward The Colours God Speed

Alabama Confederate Monuments

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Confederate Monument, Greensboro, AL.

Confederate Monument, Eutaw, AL.

Culpepper Confederate States Army
Forward The Colours God Speed

Forrest Monument & Graveyard Gainsville, Alabama

2010-03-09T12:50:00.003-05:00

Culpepper, Confederate States Army
Forward The Colours...God Speed

The final resting place of 250 Civil War soldiers who were injured in the Battle of Shiloh and brought to the hospital in the Female Academy in Gainesville.

Forrest Monument and the Confederate Graveyard in Gainsville, the cannon, sent up from New Orleans on the river, sad to say, they never had a chance to use it.

The Battle of Marianna, Florida

2010-03-06T04:53:00.003-05:00

St. Luke's Burial Ground

The last stand of the Marianna Home Guard took
place here in the cemetery behind St. Luke's.
Surrounded by Union soldiers, the local men and
boys held out until they ran low on ammunition. The
home guard members were fired on by Union
troops after they had surrendered. Captain George
Maynard of the 82nd U.S. Colored Infantry
received a Congressional Medal of Honor in part
for bringing the shooting to a close and saving the
lives of Confederate prisoners here. Florida's
Confederate Governor, John Milton, is buried here.

Memorial Hill in Petersburg’s Blandford Cemetery

2009-06-27T10:05:00.001-05:00

Memorial Hill in Petersburg’s historic Blandford Cemetery

Atop the hill, a large memorial erected by the Ladies Memorial Association of Petersburg in 1890 stands in lieu of individual tombstones since Memorial Hill is a mass grave for about 30,000 Confederate soldiers. The memorial — with a soldier facing north perched atop it — has the seal of Virginia and an inscription to “Plant the fair column o’er the vacant grave. A hero’s honors, let a hero have.”

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Confederate monument Battle of Olustee Florida

2009-06-15T09:35:00.002-05:00

Officers Commanding

Brigadier-General
Joseph Finnegan

Lieutenant-Colonel, Charles Hopkins
1st,Battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel,Theo. Brevard
2nd,Battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel, McClellan
4th,Battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel, John M. Martin
6th Battalion

This monument erected to perpetuate in loving memory the 151 soldiers of the Confederate army who lost their lives in the Battle at Olustee and who now lie buried in Oaklawn Cemetery Lake City, Florida

February 20th-Olustee Battle-1864

The monument is in front of the county courthouse in Lake City, Fla. It is the county seat and is about 15 miles west from where the Battle of Olustee took place. Below, from top to bottom, is what is inscribed on the face of the monument shown.

Sincerely,
Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.

Tragedy in the Shenandoah Valley:

2009-02-28T09:55:00.005-05:00

The Story of the Summers-Koontz Execution
By Robert H., II Moore
Price: $19.99
ORDER HERE

Try to meet me in Heaven where I hope to go.

These poignant words were written in the summer of 1865 by twenty-year-old Confederate Sergeant Isaac Newton Koontz, in a letter he penned for his fiancee just hours before his death at the hands of Union firing squad in the heart of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The execution of Koontz and Captain George Summers came after the surrender at Appomattox Court House, and remains one of the most tragic yet little-known events of the Civil War.

One month prior to kneeling on the hard ground to face their deaths, Koontz and Summers, along with four other Confederate soldiers, stole horses from a Union troop stationed near their home. Soon after the theft, the young men--remorseful and goaded by their fathers to uphold their honor--returned the horses and were offered a pardon by Union Colonel Francis Butterfield. The rebs returned home, free of mind and clean of conscious. All had been forgiven. Or so they thought.

As the sun crept over the horizon on June 27, 1865, Union soldiers--under new command--swarmed the family homes of Summers and Koontz in a swift raid and arrested the two bewildered men. They were told that their pardons were no longer valid, and later that same day they were tied to a stake and shot with Union muskets--no trial, no judge, no jury.

Before their deaths, Summers and Koontz were allowed to write farewell letters to their loved ones, and these heartrending documents serve as the basis for Robert Moore's insightful recounting of the Summers-Koontz execution. An experienced Civil War writer and a direct descendent of Koontz's fiancee, Moore brings this shocking story to life with a clarity that will appeal to Civil War experts and enthusiasts alike. Exhaustively researched and well written, Tragedy in the Shenandoah Valley tells one of the great and largely untold stories of the Civil War.

Monument InscriptionCaptain George W. Summers and Sergeant Newton Koontz, Company D, 7th Virginia Cavalry, were here executed on June 27, 1865, by order of Lt. Col. Huzzy [sic] 192 O.V.M.I., without the privilege of any kind of trial, they having been arrested at their homes in Page County, brought here and shot.

Restoration of the Summers-Koontz Civil War Monument, located just off U.S. 11, about midway between Mt. Jackson and New Market, Virginia, on the west side of the road. Re-dedication ceremony is planned for June, 2009, says the Shenandoah County Historical Society.

Legacies of Olustee Florida

2009-02-23T17:42:00.006-05:00

Pictures of the Confederate monuments at the Battle of Olustee site, about fifteen miles east of Lake City, Florida. There are 14 of them.

This first batch shows two individual monuments subsequently implaced. The words ought to be legible enough. In another batch, the words on a stone slab on the monument might not be so I will transcribe the words.

Sincerely,
Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.

These show the Noble Banner of the South in place on three locations. The one with the regiments name, this band surrounds the bottom of the monument which also includes the yankee regiments involved. I show this one because my wife's GGGrandfather, James Monroe Davis, was a private in the 19th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Company E and was wounded in the thigh by a Minie ball. She likes to say that her DNA was shed on that battlefield.

Sincerely,
Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.

This is the second batch of pictures. The words in picture #VI reads thusly, "TO THE MEN WHO FOUGHT AND
TRIUMPHED HERE IN THE DEFENCE
OF THEIR HOMES AND FIRESIDES,
THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED
BY THE UNITED DAUGHTERS
OF THE CONFEDERACY AIDED
BY THE STATE OF FLORIDA
IN COMMEMORATION OF THEIR
DEVOTION TO THE CAUSE OF
LIBERTY AND STATE SOVEREIGNTY

MCMXII
The words on #VII reads thus, "THE BATTLE OF OLUSTEE WAS FOUGHT
ON THIS GROUND
FEBRUARY 20 1864
BETWEEN 5000 CONFEDERATE TROOPS
COMMANDED BY GENERAL JOSEPH E. FINEGAN
AND 5000 FEDERAL TROOPS UNDER
GENERAL TRUMAN SEYMOUR
THE FEDERALS WERE DEFEATED WITH
A LOSS OF 2000 MEN
THE CONFEDERATE LOSS
WAS LESS THAN 1000.
The Jackson Flag is always hoisted during the reenactment during Colours on Saturday and on Sunday. I suspect the rest of the year that flagpole is empty. But, I could be wrong. I think not, though.

These show the Noble Banner of the South in place on three locations. The one with the regiments name, this band surrounds the bottom of the monument which also includes the yankee regiments involved. I show this one because my wife's GGGrandfather, James Monroe Davis, was a private in the 19th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Company E and was wounded in the thigh by a Minie ball. She likes to say that her DNA was shed on that battlefield.

JACKSON GRAVE

2009-02-23T11:19:00.001-05:00

While I was in Washington, I drove down to Lexington, VA. and attended services at Lexington Presbyterian Church and sat where "Stonewall" did when he attended church there. Below is a picture of his grave near the church.

Just as "Stonewall" said if the Shenandoah Valley is lost the war is lost, we today face the same challenge with food production hanging in the balance as our lifeline. The Army of Northern Virginia depended on the food production from the valleys farms to sustain them.

The U.S. has almost destroyed its family farms and will ultimately destroy itself as a Nation.

Thanks to:

Clyde Magee
SCV
Rosin Heels Camp
Mississippi

Southern Legacy in Bonnie Scotland

2009-02-23T06:19:00.006-05:00

GREETINGS FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND
Just thought you would like to see the new stone that I had made for Col. R A.Smith
The old sandstone monument was getting harder to read.
His stone is one of the main talking points on the official tours round the Dean cemetary in Edinburgh
There will be a dedication later in the year.
All the best from Bonnie Scotland
BILL BROWN 43rd NC.
SCV MURFREESBORO CAMP #33
CSA UNKNOWN SOLDIERS CAMP#1753.
Widows Sons Mess. FRIENDSHIP 1712 Edinburgh, Scotland
email
Bill.brown@blueyonder.co.uk

Colonel Robert Alexander Smith.

Standing Vigil

2008-08-30T01:05:00.002-05:00

A Southern Patriot Standing Vigil.
Lafayette,Georgia

Jonathan, The Littlest Rebel

2008-08-27T18:23:00.007-05:00

Jonathan is honoured at the base of monument

Lafayette, Georgia

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If you have ever doubted the reason for the existence of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, its importance, and your role in it, this will remove all doubt.

In the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Jonathan Maxey found a replacement for the father he never had. Dan Chapman - Staff Sunday, May 6, 2001

The Confederate soldier was buried in the Alabama countryside alongside 16 other unknown Rebels who would have appreciated the shade of the magnolias and cedars this steamy afternoon in the summer of 1998. Rivulets of sweat rolled down the faces of the Civil War re- enactors in their woolen butternut-yellow and smoky-gray uniforms. They wore kepis atop their heads and white cotton gloves on their hands.

Some shouldered oiled and polished rifles. Others carried the Rebel-flag-draped casket to its grave. An ll-year-old Georgia boy, with owlish glasses, silver-toed cowboy boots and a Civil War cap, stood at the crowd's edge. He smelled the fresh pine of the handmade casket. He admired the red and white funeral roses the women had brought from their gardens.

He wondered again about the unknown soldier in the casket. The fellow most likely died in the Battle of Ringgold Gap, in November 1863, not far from the boy's home in Lafayette, Ga. A hunter had found the remains more than a century later: just a pile of bones and buttons and a tin pie plate that had covered the soldier's face.

The boy stared, mesmerized, as the re-enactors lowered the coffin into the ground. Bagpipes played "Amazing Grace," then "Dixie." An 18-gun salute was answered by distant thunder that sounded like cannon fire. Hidden among the pines, a bugler played taps. The boy felt at peace, wrapped in a sense of belonging he had never known before.

"If I die," he told his mother, "that's how I want to be buried." Jonathan Maxey and mother Kimberly lived in an old mill house on Magnolia Street, not far from the battlefields of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.

A Confederate National flag, a Bonnie Blue flag and two Rebel flags hung from the ceiling of Jonathan's room. The shelves were filled with Civil War books and jigsaw puzzles, including "Memories of the Blue and Gray," which Jonathan took apart and put back together every month. A framed picture of Stonewall Jackson hung over his bed. Two glass display cases protected old bullets, Minie balls, a black- powder pistol in a leather holster and a pair of spectacles "he just swears date back to the Civil War," his mother said.

On Saturdays and summer mornings, Jonathan waited outside the town library for the doors to open. He stayed until closing, breaking away only for a lunchtime bicycle ride through town to visit the grown-ups at the newspaper office, the bed-and-breakfast and the funeral home. He pestered the librarians for movies, microfilm and loaner books from other Georgia libraries. He tried to check out 20 books on Civil War battles and generals at a time.

He sneaked into the Georgia History Room, a treasure-trove of Civil War knowledge and ancestry off-limits to anyone under 18. At age 11, Jonathan became an honorary member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, John B. Gordon Camp 599. His mother was initially reluctant --- "I was afraid of a KKK thing" --- so she accompanied him to his first meeting in the summer of 1998. The camp's commander convinced her that the group was neither racist nor "anti -Christ."

"Jonathan was not shy by any means as he attended his first meeting," the Rebel Yell newsletter reported. "He asked three or four pertinent questions during the proceedings and seemed to fit right in." A year later, he was a full member. He ached to be a Civil War re-enactor --- his grandmother had already sewn a gray-and-gold uniform just like Stonewall Jackson's --- but that would have to wait until he was eligible at age 16.

Meanwhile, Jonathan embraced the Sons, with their glorification of history and heritage, at their monthly meetings, where "Dixie" was sung and allegiance pledged to the Confederate flag. But the group was more than just an opportunity for a smart, lonely and sickly boy to indulge his Civil War fantasy. These men accepted him, humored him and loved him like a father, something missing in Jonathan's life.

Charles Owens was paying his respects at the LaFayette cemetery when he saw a boy hovering around the line of headstones honoring unknown Rebel soldiers. It was April 26, 1998, Confederate Memorial Day, and Owens suspected mischief. He hustled over and discovered Jonathan placing artificial flowers on each of the 15 unmarked graves. The flowers had once adorned the grave of Kimberly Maxey's brother and for years had been kept in her mother's shed. A week before the Confederate holiday, Jonathan asked if he could have them.

Owens, an ex-Marine and a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, invited Jonathan to the next meeting. Impressed with the boy, and eager for new recruits, the group paid his first-year dues of $35. The men bought him a holster for his black-powder pistol and took him to Civil War re-enactments and the battlefields of Lafayette, Taylor's Ridge and Chickamauga. He reciprocated by selling raffle tickets, researching pension records of local Rebels and raising money to build a stone wall honoring Confederate soldiers.

"They treated him as an equal, instead of as a child," his mother said. "Jonathan ate that up. They'd slap him on the back, tell jokes, ask his opinion." Owens took Jonathan to the Rebel burial in Alabama. He remembered the boy's quiet enthusiasm as the re-enactors laid the unknown soldier to rest. But there were other memories. "It was hilly in the cemetery and Jonathan had trouble walking up the hills," Owens recalled. "I told him he ought to get on a running program to get in shape. He just smiled."

A boy must be 12 to join the Sons. He also must prove that an ancestor served the Confederacy. Jonathan was nine months shy of 12 when he hooked up with the group, so he had plenty of time to discover the Rebel in his attic. Jonathan never slept late on Saturdays; he was too eager to reach the Lafayette library by 9 a.m. "Most fascinations, they don't last very long," his mother said. "But this was something on his mind all the time. He was in his element talking about the Civil War."

Jonathan badgered librarians Valinda Oliver and Betty Johnson daily, demanding to know when this book or that microfilm would arrive from other libraries.

On sick days, he would call Oliver or Johnson from home just to talk. He invited them to distant battlefields and offered to pay their train fares. He asked if he could eat lunch with them in the library on Saturdays. "He wanted to learn everything he could while he was here," said Oliver, the library manager.

"It seemed like he was in a race with time. It was almost like he was looking for an anchor for his life, or for a belonging, or for the history of himself. He was looking for his history." He found it, finally, in a book called "The Maxeys of Virginia." He discovered that Thomas Franklin Maxey, his great-great-great- great-great grandfather, had served the Confederacy, Company H, 3 rd Georgia Cavalry.

"He said, 'Mama, here it is, here it is, here it is,' " Kimberly Maxey recalled. "He loved it and wanted everybody to know --- whether they wanted to or not. It was something that would last, I guess. " Jonathan discovered that Thomas Maxey, along with another Maxey soldier, was buried in nearby Summerville. Based on his research, the Veterans Administration placed honorary headstones on their graves. The Rebels were honored in September 1999 with re-enactors, bagpipes and an 18-gun salute. The folded Confederate battle flag was presented to Jonathan's grandfather, the oldest surviving Maxey, who later gave it to the boy. Framed and hung on a wall, that flag was the last thing Jonathan saw before going to bed each night.

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson is one of the more revered figures in the pantheon of Confederate generals. He was Jonathan's hero. Jonathan "seemed to connect so with him," his mother said. "He thought if he had lived, he could've been great." Both Jackson and Jonathan were born in the hills and grew up surrounded by aunts, uncles and grandparents. Socially awkward, and with few buddies, both took to books and learning, spending hours alone. History was their favorite subject. Jackson became a teacher. Jonathan aspired to be one.

Acquaintances considered both boys a bit odd; a biographer wrote that Jackson "was unquestionably a 'town character.' " Oliver, the LaFayette librarian, said Jonathan "was a complicated child. I never could figure him out." Mike Keown didn't care that Jonathan was different from other boys in LaFayette. Keown, commander of Jonathan's Sons of Confederate Veterans camp, was struck by the boy's insatiable appetite for history, knowledge and life.

"Some call that odd," said Keown, a mechanic. "I call 'em thinking the way they're supposed to."

Stonewall Jackson and Jonathan Maxey also shared something else. Their fathers were dead or gone. An uncle introduced Kimberly Maxey to Terry Bailey. Their relationship was brief, barely a month, but long enough for Jonathan to be conceived. Kimberly and Terry went their separate ways, she as a secretary for Walker County family services, where she remains, and he in the plumbing business. Terry, who had run-ins with the law, rarely saw his boy.

One evening, ll-year-old Jonathan was watching the TV news while his mother visited next door. Something he saw compelled him to call her. "He said, 'Mama, put on Channel 9. Dad's been arrested for drugs.' He knew that his dad was involved in drugs and he kept saying that one day he'd get his. (Jonathan) was laughing hysterically. It just tickled him to death."

There were other men in Jonathan's life. His grandfather Pete, a truck driver, drove Jonathan allover North Georgia, sometimes ending at the Chickamauga battlefield. Jerry DeBord, a retired state trooper, taught Jonathan how to handle his black-powder pistol. And there were the Sons of Confederate Veterans. So his mother didn't believe that her ex-boyfriend's death in November 1999, an apparent suicide, affected Jonathan much. But during a routine eye examination soon thereafter, the doctor discovered that Jonathan's eyesight had deteriorated badly. He asked if the boy had suffered a recent trauma. Within a month, his eyesight returned to its previous condition.

"I guess his father's death upset him," Maxey said. "He didn't get to say goodbye. He hoped in the future to have a relationship with him." Valinda Oliver, the library manager, felt sorry for the boy. "I'm no psychiatrist," she allowed, "but 1 always thought Jonathan really needed a father figure he never had. The Sons of Confederate Veterans filled the need."

Jonathan died last Christmas Eve. One day seven years earlier, he awoke and vomited blood. Kimberly raced the boy to the local hospital. An ambulance carried him to Chattanooga. Jonathan spent that weekend in intensive care. Uncertain of his illness, doctors transferred him to Egleston Children's Hospital in Atlanta. His spleen was four times the normal size and hindered the flow of blood to his liver. His blood was also protein-deficient.

Surgery was eventually performed. Hospitals became Jonathan's frequent companion. And then, the Wednesday before Christmas 2000, he fainted and was again rushed to the children's hospital in Chattanooga, this time with pulmonary hypertension. Maxey didn't tell her son that he didn't have long to live. "The Saturday before he died, he said, 'Mama, why is this happening to me?' " she recalled. "I told him, 'Jonathan, you're just something special.' He was OK with that."

He awoke early the chilly morning of Dec. 24 to find everything in order. The house was silent. His mother was still in bed. The Christmas tree, trimmed and beautiful with presents underneath, stood invitingly in the living room.

The boy bathed and, feeling suddenly ill, returned to bed. He suffered a seizure and died. On Christmas Day, Kimberly Maxey rummaged through a desk drawer looking for phone numbers of friends to notify about her son's death. She found instead a blue sheet of paper with clouds in the corners. A child's handwriting splashed across the page. It was a note from Jonathan.

Two years earlier, right after the Confederate graveside service in Alabama, Jonathan had written his will and sketched his tombstone. "He had more guts than anybody I know," said Owens of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. "He was something." Maxey set about honoring Jonathan's wishes. At the funeral home, she discovered that her son had left explicit instructions on how he should be buried: casket open, glasses on, Confederate flag and kepi placed alongside his body. At the florist, she found out that Jonathan had ordered red, white and blue flowers done up like a Confederate flag. She talked with Owens in hopes of re-enacting a Rebel burial.

Jonathan was buried under a cold and Confederate-gray sky at the cemetery on the edge of town. Civil War re-enactors, in white gloves and woolen uniforms, carried the boy's flag-draped coffin to its grave. A volley of musket fire was answered with cannon shot. The blustery wind carried taps off toward the mountains. The Rebel flag was folded and presented to Kimberly.

Jonathan's tombstone is black marble. On the front: a Rebel flag, a quotation from Stonewall Jackson ("Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees"), Jonathan in Confederate uniform on a white horse. On the back: a bugler, a drummer boy, a verse of "Dixie."

"He was always a Rebel," his mother " Kimberly"said. "That was his identity. "

The above, compliments:
Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.

God bless you Jimmy, for sharing this... PoP

Arlington Confederate Monument

2008-08-16T14:11:00.005-05:00

Photos by,
Brother Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.

Confederate Monument at Woodlawn Cemetery

2008-08-08T23:39:00.005-05:00

Differing views of the Confederate Monument at Woodlawn Cemetery West Palm Beach.

Compliments of:
Patriot, Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.

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President Jefferson Davis grave

2008-07-05T23:33:00.003-05:00

President Davis rests with other members of his family in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery.

His suffering during his imprisonment won him the affection of the Southern people, who came to regard him as a martyr to their lost cause. Although indicted, Davis was never brought to trial, and he was released on bond in 1867.

Prison Life Of Jefferson Davis
The Trying Experience of the Ex-President at
Fort Monroe Prevarication of General Miles
HERE

Devotion

2008-07-03T15:24:00.003-05:00

Cleaning the grave stone of my ancestor, Major Henry Harding of the North Carolina 61st Infantry Regiment. He's buried in Cherry Hill Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina.

Henry Harding was born in Beaufort County, North Carolina on May 8, 1837 and died April 23, 1912. He was raised on the family farm and later became a teacher. Mr. Harding married Susan Elizabeth Sugg on February 21, 1867. He enlisted in Beaufort County at the age of 25, and became Captain of Henry Harding's Independent Company N.C. Troops. He later served in Company K, 17th Regiment N.C. Troops (1st Organization) and was appointed 1st Lieutenant of the company. He was present or accounted for until he resigned on October 9, 1861. The reason he resigned was not reported or known. Mr. Harding later joined Company B, 61st Regiment N.C. Troops, also known as the Beaufort Plow Boys, and served as Captain until his promotion to Major and transfer to the Field and Staff of the N.C. 61st Regiment on September 5, 1862. He was reported present or accounted for in January-June 1863, and was reported in command of the regiment in July-August 1863. Major Harding was reported present or accounted for on surviving regimental muster rolls from September 1863 through April 1864. On August 3, 1864, he resigned "to promote the good of the service, as well as to secure my personal satisfaction and the satisfaction of those with whom I am associated......I respectfully pray that I may be allowed to join a Regt of my choice, which I promise to do within five days after this is accepted (the 41st or 50th N.C. preferred.) His resignation was accepted on August 10, 1864, but there is no evidence that he later served in another unit. Major Harding is buried at Cherry Hill Cemetery, Greenville, North Carolina.

From Sketches of Pitt Co, N.C. by Henry T. King (Page251)

Major Harding was born at his father's home on a farm three miles south of Chocowinity. Major Harding was raised on the farm, working and attending school, finishing from Trinity Parochial School at Chocowinity, with a good academic education. He then began teaching and had been teaching five years, when he left the schoolhouse for the field of war, volunteering in Captain Swindell's company, which went to Hatteras, and at the expiration of twelve months, for which he had enlisted, disbanded. Governor Vance then commissioned him Captain to raise a company. This company went into the Sixty-first Regiment as Company B. He was later promoted to Major of the regiment. The regiment saw much service in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. In 1863 it was encamped on James Island, near Charleston. On another part of the island were a lot of Negro soldiers. The United States Gunboat Chippewa was lying in Stono River to protect them. Major Harding conceived a plan to capture it. Early one morning in July, 1863, his regiment made the charge, succeeding in getting to the boat but could not scale its sides. The guns of the boat could not be lowered enough to reach the Confederates and any appearance over the sides of the boat was an invitation for a ball. So the boat could do nothing but weigh anchor and float down river. But not before several on the boat had been killed and the boat damaged. As the boat swung around, the regiment had to seek shelter, as grape and canister were flying thick. However, only one Confederate, B.A. Davis, Private in Company F, was wounded. He died in a few minutes. The regiment then charged on the Negro soldiers, and drove them from the island with great loss. All their camp and supplies were captured without the loss of a man. Returning from the war, he went to work on the farm and in 1866 was elected to the legislature (House). In 1876 he was elected a county commissioner and was twice reelected. In 1885 he moved to Greenville, N.C. He had served four years on the Board of Education, when in 1889, on the death of Superintendent Josephus Latham, he was elected county superintendent to fill the vacancy. He held this position four years. In 1892 he was elected Register of Deeds, and since the expiration of that term, with the exception of two years, he was a Justice of the Peace. He was Senior Warden of the Episcopal Church, was a long lay reader, teacher, and superintendent of the Sunday School. He was a Past Mason and a Democrat.

Major Harding's Obituary from the Washington Daily News, April 25, 1912

Major Harding, brother of the Rev. Nathaniel Harding, of this city passed away at his home in Greenville, N.C., yesterday afternoon. He was about seventy-seven years of age and for years resided in this county at Aurora, N.C. Major Harding was a native of Beaufort County and spent his early years at Trinity School at Chocowinity. When the Civil War broke out he organized the "Beaufort Plow Boys" and went to the front as Captain of that company. His gallantry as a soldier brought him steady promotion and he became major of the 61st Regiment North Carolina Regiment. He delighted in reviving the memory of the Confederacy and for the last several years was commander of Bryan Grimes Camp of Confederate Veterans, always taking active part in the annual reunions on the 10th of May. His remains were interred in Cherry Hill cemetery this afternoon with Masonic honors.

Your website continues to grow and becomes better each and every day. Thanks for all the hard work you do and keep up the great work!

Edward Harding
Washington, North Carolina
Beaufort Plow Boys Camp #2128
SCV/MOSB Life Member
SCV National Genealogy Committee Member

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the Confederate States of America

2008-07-02T22:06:00.002-05:00

Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier
The Confederate Veterans Cemetery at Beauvoir, in Biloxi, Mississippi

Ah! fearless on many a day for us,
They stood in front of the fray for us,
And held the foeman at bay for us;
And tears should fall
Fore'er o'er all
Who fell while wearing the Gray for us.

The discovery in 1980 of the remains of a Confederate soldier on a battlefield of the War for Southern Independence prompted the establishment of a tomb for the Unknown Soldier of the Confederate States of America. The remains were carefully authenticated from artifacts accompanying them, but the identity of the soldier, or of his unit, or place of origin is not known. Approval of the plan and official designation was sought and received all recognized Confederate organizations - Sons of Confederate Veterans, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Military Order of the Stars and Bars, and Children of the Confederacy.

http://www.beauvoir.org/unknsldr.html

Thanks to,
Culpepper

Aeterna Numini et Patriae Asto

2008-07-02T22:02:00.001-05:00

Hollywood Cemetery

It is inscribed, To the Confederate Dead Memoria in Aeterna Numini et Patriae Asto, meaning "In eternal memory of those who stood for God and country."

Confederate Monument - Palatka, Florida

2008-06-29T13:50:00.003-05:00

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Adam Joshua Crosby and his wife

2008-06-27T13:10:00.005-05:00

This is my Great Great Grandfather...
Adam Joshua Crosby and his wife, my G. G. Grandmother 'Miss Lucy'

Here is the church he and his brother and family built in legacy to a brother who died in Richmond.. Peter.
Paul survived with Adam.

We placed this stone in a memorial service in 1999. It was my Daddy's last wish that a stone be placed beside his brother's Adam and Paul. Peter succumbed (sp) to pneumonia in Richmond and is buried in Oakwood. The Moultrie SCV camp officiated.

with Peter beside him...apparantly Adam and his one brother Paul, lived near each other, and they felt awful bad that Peter was killed. Their Daddy.. Paul senior lived closer to Adel, and there is a a whole slew of the boys buried over there...many of them were in different regiments.
(there were a 'few' Pauls...) Paul # 3 is buried here behind the church in the Crosby section.

This graveyard has many Cooper's , Crosby's and Culpepper's

This was my Great Aunt Lucille Murphy's story she submitted ~ Owen Crosby

Sacred Ground

2008-06-26T19:34:00.002-05:00

"The Seven Blackbirds" Brock Townsend's great grandfather and his six great uncles.

The Cullen/Pippen Home

2008-06-26T19:30:00.003-05:00

Cullen/Pippen "Brock's" Home

Mosby's Tombstone

2008-06-26T19:26:00.002-05:00

Brock's daughters Christine & Bonnie at Mosby's Tombstone

HK at Brock Townsend's, Great Grandfather's Monument

2008-06-26T19:22:00.001-05:00

Asheville resident H.K. Edgerton (seated), chairman of the Southern Legal Resource Center, Inc. board of directors, prepares to begin a 160 mile march to Richmond, Va. on Monday morning as members of two Sons of Confederate Veterans camps provide support. Standing, from the left, are Oliver Wells of the Old Brunswick Camp; Tommy Ferguson of the Old Brunswick Camp; Tracy Clary, commander of the Old Brunswick Camp; Doug Winn of the Old Brunswick Camp; Van Wright, 1st Lt. Commander of the Old Brunswick Camp; and Fred Taylor of the Tom Smith Camp of Suffolk, Va. (who has family members living in Warren County). Edgerton hopes to increase awareness about the history of the south.

Ft. Meade Florida

2008-06-26T16:16:00.003-05:00

In memorial of Stonewall Jackson
Erected By Gen. E. M. Law, Camp SCV

Historical maker near-by.

Compliments of,
Owen Crosby "csason"

Confederate Monument, High Point NC

2008-06-26T09:58:00.002-05:00

The Confederate Monument in Natchez, MS.

2008-01-09T13:36:00.000-05:00

The monument was erected in 1890 by the Confederate Memorial Association of Natchez and Adams County, MS.

Compliments of:

Allen Terrell

Confederate Monument, Liberty, Mississippi

2007-11-19T01:00:00.000-05:00

Erected in 1871. It is in Liberty, Mississippi, which is the county seat of Amite County. It was erected to all who died in the War of Northern Agression from Amite County.

Amite County, one of the oldest counties in Mississippi, sent one thousand of her noblest sons to the Confederate Army. In honor of them stands in the town of Liberty a Confederate monument with the names of three hundred and fifty boys who, with unfaltering courage and devotion amid the shock of battle, went to their unmarked graves with songs of their country on their lips. No names shine with more resplendent luster upon pages of American history than those written across the sides of this weather beaten slab. The devotion that is felt for this monument is characteristic of a people who have always been true to every cause to which they showed allegiance, not because of its sculptural workmanship, but because it is a stone of memory erected by loving hands under trying circumstances. It was built in 1871 during the regime of the carpetbag and scalawag. ~ Confederate Veteran, 1911

Allen Terrell

Monument from Isle of Wight County

2007-11-16T20:25:00.000-05:00

Confederate Monument from Isle of
Wight County.

The flag to the left is the Isle of Wight County flag. To the right is
the Commonwealth of Virginia flag. The flag of the United States of
America is a third flag that is blocked by the monument itself.

This county is adjacent to Southampton County,
Southampton County having been carved from the original Isle of Wight
County land grant. Isle of Wight County is adjacent to Sussex County,
and directly across the James River from Jamestown. Isle of Wight
County was settled very early in the history of our country.

Doug

Southampton County, VA

2007-11-16T19:57:00.000-05:00

Monument to the Confederate dead from
Southampton County, VA, the county seat of which is Courtland.
Courtland is also infamous for the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion of 1831.

Blessings,
Doug

Soldier Monument Rockville Maryland

2007-10-26T01:13:00.000-05:00

Confederate Soldier Monument
Rockville Maryland

Rest of the story HERE

The consolidation of the States into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.
-- General Robert E. Lee

Heads-up goes to:
Dave King, Jr.

Iowa’s Confederate General

2007-10-20T01:22:00.000-05:00

This monument was dedicated on
September 22, 2007 by
Iowa Sons of Confederate Veterans; Texas Sons of Confederate Veterans; Marmaduke Chapter of Military Order of Stars & Bars; Douds Stone, Iowa’s Confederate General.
Iowa’s Only Confederate General Marker.

Monument honoring the Birthplace of Sul Ross,

Sul Ross, the only Confederate general born in Iowa

More HERE
on the effort of these wonderful Southern groups!

Thanks to:
Dann Hayes
For this wonderful heads-up!

Confederate Monument Virginia Beach, VA

2007-10-19T04:34:00.000-05:00

The statue is located in front
of the City Courthouse complex.

During the WBTS there was no city of Virginia Beach, VA ....it was called Princess Anne County and encompassed what is now Virginia Beach as well as parts of Norfolk.

Thanks to:
Steve Short
Member, Princess Anne Camp 1993, SCV

FIRST EVER "MONUMENT TO THE UNKNOWN CONFEDERATE DEAD" TN.

2007-10-18T22:32:00.000-05:00

FIRST EVER "MONUMENT TO THE UNKNOWN CONFEDERATE DEAD" erected in 1868 and underwent a recent refurbishing by a joint effort of our Union City Council, Obion Co. Historical Society and SCV Camp 176.

THE UNKNOWN CONFEREDATE DEAD
[Written while the ladies of Union City were engaged in the work
of raising means to rebury the Confederate dead at that place in 1868.]

THRICE noble aim befitting hands so fair,
Befitting hearts so gentle and so true,
Cause that might claim an angel’s loving care
Now claims this pure and holy trust from you.

Ah, broken hearts no doubt have waited long
For the return of each one sleeping here,
Waited and prayed and heard Hope’s siren song,
Till wailing dirges reached each list’ning ear.

Perhaps, dear friends, for one who came not back
You waited thus, prayed, wept, and watched; I
have.
My brother perished on War’s blasting track,
And sleeps now in a lonely, unknown grave.

Pale Sorrow, somewhat hushed, to-day arose,
And flitted slowly through fond Memory’s hall;
Again my soul bowed down beneath the throes
War gave when o’er the South he flung his pall.

Five dreary winters have their dirges sung
Above my knightly playmate brother’s grave;
Mayhap some stranger hand hath kindly flung
A chaplet o’er the mound of mine own brave.

If so, a sister’s heart would bless the hands,
E’en as the loved of these would bless you, friends,
And hope to clasp them in the starry lands,
Where peaceful, joyous union never ends.

This poem is from page 37 of a book titled ‘A SOUVERNIR OF THE TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL, POEMS’, by Annie Somers Gilchrist, Gospel Advocate Publishing Company, Nashville, Tennessee, dated 1897.

Thanks to:
Billy J. Foster/Life Member
Gen. Otho French Strahl, Camp # 176
Union City, TN

Confederate Soldier's Monument-Union City, TN

2007-10-18T22:24:00.000-05:00

Confederate Soldier's Monument-Union City, TN

Inscription on Confederate Soldier’s of Obion County Monument.

This monument, erected for the Confederate soldiers in 1909, is located on the south side of East Church Street, in Kiwanis Park, in downtown Union City,TN. The monument was originally located in front of the old courthouse, but was moved to this location when the present courthouse was constructed.

On the north side is written:

"TO THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS OF OBION COUNTY'

On the west side is written:

"TO THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER OF OBION COUNTY WHO WAS KILLED IN BATTLE - WHO WAS STARVED IN FEDERAL PRISON = AND WHO HAS PRESERVED ANGLO SAXON CIVILIZATION IN THE SOUTH"

"ERECTED BY THE LEONIDAS POLK CHAPTER OF U.D.C. - 1909"

Thanks to:
Billy J. Foster/Life Member
Gen. Otho French Strahl, Camp # 176
Union City, TN.

Confederate Monument Salisbury NC

2007-10-18T21:58:00.000-05:00

Confederate Monument Salisbury NC

Salisbury was a POW camp for captured Yankee invaders during the war. The Battle of Grant's Creek was fought in the town, which stopped Stoneman's Raiders on their way to Raleigh.

It was dedicated in 1909, and in attendance at the ceremony was Mrs. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson of Charlotte, North Carolina. To me, this is the most beautiful of all Confederate monuments. The locals refer to it as "Fame."

Thanks to:
Mike Tuggle

Monument to Confederate dead in Charlotte

2007-10-17T08:37:00.000-05:00

Monument to Confederate dead in Charlotte, Monument to Confederate dead in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Battleflag was hack-sawed down by order of the city manager two years ago after a black city councilman complained.

A Confederate Memorial Day ceremony at the same monument

Thanks to:
Mike Tuggle

CONFEDERATE MONUMENT DE

2007-10-17T05:37:00.000-05:00

CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS MONUMENT IN GEORGETOWN, DE

LOCATED ON THE GROUNDS OF THE MARVEL CARRIAGE MUSEUM, SOUTH BEDFORD STREET,
GEORGETOWN, DE

Thanks to:
Terry Ayers

Pensacola Lee’s Square!

2007-10-17T05:01:00.000-05:00

Just attended the 112th annual Florida Division UDC convention in Pensacola, WOW what a wonderful monument to the South in Lee’s Square! Last year in March we attended the Natural Bridge reenactment/memorial service which is hosted by the Tallahassee UDC Chapter Anna Jackson, who in 1920 put up this beautiful monument to the South. Check out both of these……Pictured in both are my two children, who are Florida Division Officers in the Children of the Confederacy.

Jill Wilson, Chapter Director Daniel M. Vaden #944 Apopka, FL- Awarded the Most Outstanding Chapter Director for 2006-2007 Florida Division!

City Cemetery, Athens, Alabama.

2007-05-15T01:16:00.000-05:00

----- Original Message -----
From: Barton Cox
To: Filupd@aol.com
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 7:53 PM
Subject: Fwd:

Along with this picture, which I hope comes through, I want to inform or remind you of Greenville's Confederate Memorial Day observance which will be Sunday May 20th at 3PM at Springwood Cemetery (400 block N. Main St. downtown). BJ grad Myron Mooney who pastors a church in Trinity, Alabama, will be our main speaker. I hope many of you will be able to attend. BC

>>> Harry Sandlin 5/14/2007 8:46 AM >>>
City Cemetery, Athens, Alabama. My home town.

Confederate Statue Vandalism! Will it Ever End!?

2006-09-28T00:09:00.000-05:00

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. - The Confederate soldier statue that has dutifully stood watch over the Loudoun County Circuit Court and grounds since 1908 was a victim of vandalism!

The statue was designed by F.S. Sievers and dedicated to the courthouse in 1908. It serves as a memorial to the many Rebel soldiers who died fighting for the cause in which they believed.

A Dominion Power employee found the gun barrel from the statue in the parking lot of the Colonial Funeral Home and notified the police department. The gun barrel was carefully collected and placed into the Leesburg Police evidence room pending the rightful return to the Soldier.

Confederate's & Monument in Brazil

2006-07-03T00:16:00.000-05:00

Monument in Brazil

Confederate Grave in Brazil

The members of this tight-knit group have became Brazilians, but without losing some of that Dixie character.

Watch the Video HERE

Story HERE

Confederate Mound in Oakwood Cemetery in Chicago, IL.

2006-06-22T08:58:00.000-05:00

The mound marks the largest mass grave in the western hemisphere-buried within are the remains of about 6000 Confederate soldiers.

Learn more HERE

John Jeffers,
Camp Commander
Camp Douglas Memorial #1507
Illinois Division

Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery

2006-05-31T21:59:00.000-05:00

Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery

Within it's walls are the remains of 2,260 Confederate soldiers; all but 31 reportedly died while held at the neighboring Camp Chase Confederate Prisoner Camp.

It is said, a melancholy ghost haunts the rows at Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery. Her name, according to some, is Louisiana Rainsburgh Briggs, but she's better known as the Lady in Grey. She weeps quietly over the grave of one Benjamin F. Allen, a private in the 50th Tennessee Regiment, Company D. Allen's grave is number 233 out of 2,260 Confederate soldiers laid to rest in this two-acre plot in the capital city of a very Northern state.

This hallowed was at one time cared for by The UDC. It is now in the hands of yankee charity....I Ask, Where are these Ladies Now?...PoP

Decking Southern Soldiers' Graves
by A.W. Slayback

Beautiful feet, with maidenly tread,
Offerings bring to the gallant dead.
Footsteps light press the sacred sod
Of heroes untimely ascended to God.
Bring spring flowers! in fragrant perfume
And offer sweet prayers for a merciful doom.

Beautiful hands! ye deck the graves,
Above the dust of the Southern braves.
Here was extinguished their manly fire,
Who scorned to flinch from the foeman's ire.
Bring spring flowers! the laurel and rose,
And deck ye the graves where your friends repose.

Beautiful eyes! the tears ye shed
Are brighter than diamonds to those who bled;
Spurned is the cause they fell to save,
But "little they'll reck," if ye honor the brave.
Bring spring flowers! with tears and praise,
And chant o'er their tombs your grateful lays.

Beautiful lips! ye trembled now,
Memory wakens the sleeping one's vow;
Mute are the lips and faded the forms,
That never knelt, save to God and your charms.
Bring spring flowers! all dewy with morn,
And think how they loved ye, whose graves ye adorn.

Beautiful hearts! of matron and maid,
Faithful were ye, when Apostles betrayed!
Here are your loved and cherished ones laid,
Peace to their ashes, the flowers ye strew
Are monuments worthy the faithful and true.
Bring spring flowers! perfume their sod,
With annual incense to glory and God.
I Ask, Where are these Ladies Now?

West Virginia Treasures

2006-05-31T20:58:00.000-05:00

Lewisburg ( Greenbrier Co. ) West Virginia

Stonewall Jackson - Clarksburg, West Virginia ( Gen. Jackson's birthplace )

Monroe County, West Virginia

Gen. John McCausland's Home - Putnam Co. West Virginia

Jackson's Mill - Clarksburg, West Virginia
( boyhood home of Gen. Jackson )

The Confederate Memorial in Indian Mound Cemetery at Romney, West Virginia is considered the first official memorial to Confederate dead to be erected anywhere in the United States of America. In the early Spring of 1866, citizens of Hampshire County decided to form an association to honor the Confederate dead. Eventually they adopted a formal organization and on June 1, 1866 held the first ceremony to honor the Confederate graves in Indian Mound Cemetery. Later, they ordered a monument listing the names of all county citizens who died in the American Civil War. The monument was formally dedicated on September 26, 1867.

A little known fact about the Confederate Memorial is that it had to be brought in secretly. Shortly after the Civil War, Federal law prevented any monuments being made that would honor the Confederate States of America. The monument was brought into the county at night and then had its commemorative words chiseled in on location, so as to avoid the possibility of being seized in transit from where it was created.

Each year Confederate Memorial Day in Hampshire County recalls the sacrifice and suffering of men and women on both sides of the war....Indian Mound Cemetery at Romney, West Virginia

Thanks to Sister pamba1

Stonewall's grave

2006-05-29T16:49:00.000-05:00

Stonewall's grave, Lexington, VA (front and side views)

Submitted by Kathy
Sowder, Chesapeake, VA
No further details.

My Hometown of Chester,South Carolina

2006-05-23T14:17:00.000-05:00

"Chester,South Carolina" Confederate Monument on top of hill in Chester.

Cannon found while digging at a Church a few years back. Believe to be buried at the time Sherman was on his march through South Carolina and after burning Columbia,and heading toward Chester which is about 45 miles from Columbia. The Confederate Soldiers in Chester buried the 4 Cannons to keep the Yankee from getting them.

Cecil and Judy
Westminster,Colo.

More Treasures of NC.

2006-05-22T05:19:00.000-05:00

More Treasures of NC.

Jeb Stuart and Confederate soldiers monument of Patrick County, Virginia in front of the courthouse in Stuart,Va.

Confederate Monument to Soldiers of Pittsylvania County in Chatham,Virginia. I grew up in Virginia and this is the county.

Confederate Monument to Brunswick County Soldiers in Lawrenceville,Virginia. My ancestors served from this county.

My Great,Great Grand daddy and his wife. They are buried in a private cemetary in Ebony,Va. His company was the 21st Virginia Infantry Co.G Brunswick County,Va.

Photos and comments:
Larry Lee Spence
Eden, NC.

Woodlawn Cemetery in West Palm Beach, Fla

2006-05-01T17:58:00.000-05:00

This was what we displayed on the flagpole display at the official centalised flagpole at the . on 30 April 2006, to commemorate our Confederate Memorial Day ceremonies.

Thanks to,
Jimmy L. Shirley Jr. & crew!

Anderson Cemetery, Ringgold, Georgia

2006-05-01T17:16:00.000-05:00

Established in 1840 for the Anderson family, slaves and friends.

Many of Ringgold's patriots are buried here.

PoP

Confederate statue in Hinton WV

2006-05-01T16:38:00.000-05:00

Confederate statue in Hinton WV which was Greenbrier County during the war. Many men from this county fought for the South

Thanks to,
KUZ

Willow Dale Cemetery Goldsboro, NC

2006-05-01T01:55:00.000-05:00

Confederate Monument in Willow Dale Cemetery in Goldsboro, NC erected by the original Goldsboro Rifles veterans, Co. A, 27th NC Inf. Reg. The tablets were added in 2003 by the Goldsboro Rifles Camp 760 SCV and list some six hundred names of soldiers who died in and around Goldsboro. The mound that supports the statue is a mass grave entombing the remains of eight hundred deceased Confederate soldiers that were gathered from around the area during the years after the war... MORE HERE

Glenn

Jon White's favorite

2006-05-01T01:19:00.000-05:00

Rockingham

Pulaski

Albemarle County

University of Virginia Confederate Cemetery

Virginia Military Institute

My favorite Confederate city and county monuments from Virginia.

Respectfully,

Jon White

Lt. General A.P. Stewart

2006-05-01T01:08:00.000-05:00

Lt. General A.P. Stewart, Erected 1918
And my better half of 39 years, 1/2 Pint
Hamilton County Courthouse, TN.
PoP

Columbus & Okolona, MS

2006-04-29T14:48:00.000-05:00

Stephen Dill Lee Home, Columbus, MS

Columbus, MS

Columbus, MS

Hwy 182 East, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS

Confederate Cemetery, Okolona, MS

Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, MS

Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, MS

Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, MS

Thanks to,
Jim Strickland

Lowndes County Columbus, MS

2006-04-29T14:37:00.000-05:00

Lowndes County Courthouse, Columbus, MS

Thanks to,
Jim Strickland

Silverdale Confederate Cemetery & Chatt.

2006-04-29T14:04:00.000-05:00

Silverdale Confederate Cemetery, TN

Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga, TN

Thanks to:
Jim Strickland

Monuments, Oakdale Cemetery Washington,NC

2006-04-29T11:38:00.000-05:00

Confederate Monument located at Oakdale Cemetery in Washington, North Carolina.

Monument located at Oakdale Cemetery in Washington, NC that was given by the Children of the Confederacy in 1905. The inscription on the monument reads:

Erected May 10, 1905
By Washington Gray Chapter
Children of the Confederacy
Organized In 1887 By Margaret Arthur Call
To The Memory
Of 17 Soldiers Killed In
Defense Of Washington

Edward Harding
Washington, North Carolina
SCV/MOSB Life Member
SCV National Genealogy Committee Member
Confederate Ancestors of Edward Harding

Rockingham County NC

2006-04-29T11:05:00.000-05:00

Erected by SCV Camp Lorenzo Dow Williams Camp #1456 Reidsville, NC. to the Confederate soldiers of Rockingham County, NC.

Confederate monument in Reidsville,NC

General Alfred M Scales Law Offices in Madison,NC

Thanks to,
Larry Lee Spence