Unknown Confederate Dead Memorial, Kingston, Georgia
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Sprinterman
N 34° 13.796 W 084° 56.764
16S E 689178 N 3789558
Monument to 250 unknown Confederate dead in Kingston, Georgia.
Waymark Code: WM2BK2
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/07/2007
Published By:Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
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This monument stands in a cemetery in Kingston,Ga. It was erected by the Ladies Memorial Association of Kingston in 1874. The memorial was repaired in 1937. It overlooks the graves of 250 unknown Confederate dead and 2 unknown Union soldiers buried in this section of the cemetery. More Union troops were buried here originally but those graves were opened and transferred to the National Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia after the war.
Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1874

Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Ladies Memorial Association

Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate

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