Historical Marker Series

Sons of Confederate Veterans/United Confederate Veterans

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In MemoriumPro Artis et Focis(For hearth and home)Not for fame or reward, not for place or for rankNot lured by ambition or goaded by necessityBut in simple, obedience to dutyAs they understood it, these men suffered allSacrificed all, dared all—and d…
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Union and Confederate forces clashed near here again on February 3, 1863, almost one year after the Battle of Fort Donelson. Confederate Gen. Joseph Wheeler attacked Dover's 800-man Federal garrison after he failed to disrupt Union shipping on the Cumberlan…
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In the spring of 1866, the bodies of Confederate soldiers killed at the Battle of Franklin were exhumed from their temporary graves and reburied here, on this two-acre plot adjacent to Carnton, home of John and Carrie McGavock. Over about ten weeks, veteran…
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After the Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864, the Union Army withdrew into Nashville. Casualties of over 8,000 Union and Confederate soldiers lay upon the field. In pursuit of the withdrawing Union forces, Confederate General John Bell Hood left a burial…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1B6G_evergreen-cemetery_Murfreesboro-TN.html
The Confederate Circle at historic Evergreen Cemetery was established in 1890. The reburial of Confederate dead from across the county here took place the following year. Among those buried here is Robert James Campbell Gailbreath (1829-1863), a Jackson …
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Within this circle lies the remains of over 2,000 gallant Confederate soldiers who gave their lives in the battles in and around Murfreesboro during The War Between The States 1861-1865. They were first buried on the battlefield where they died defending th…
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Less than half a mile west of here, on the Lewis Whitaker farm, the only engagement of the war in Cumberland County between regular Union and Confederate troops took place on December 9, 1863. Several companies of Col. Thomas J. Jordan's 9th Pennsylvania Ca…
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(front)Dedicated to the men of Lawrence County, Alabama,from all walks of life, who left kith and kin,hearth and home, and lost their lives in military servicefor the Confederate States of America duringthe War for Southern Independence. 1861-1865 Lawren…
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After the battle Union troops hastily buried the dead. The Confederate dead were interred in shallow mass graves near where they fell on battle. Some of these graves were so shallow that the bodies in them began surfacing within 48 hours of burial. This …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1C27_the-last-grand-review_Selma-NC.html
On this site, April, 1865, the last grand review of the Confederate Army was held. The troops were reviewed by General J.E. Johnston, Governor Vance and others.