Civil War Veterans Memorial - Dyersville, TN
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 36° 01.944 W 089° 23.178
16S E 284997 N 3990176
These two plaques are different from the large monument on the corner, and they must be very old.
Waymark Code: WMACJX
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 12/26/2010
Published By:Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
Views: 3

County of Memorial: Dyer County
Location of Memorial: Court St., on courthouse, either side of north entrance door, Dyersburg

Text of Plaques:

"THE SUN NE'ER SHONE ON A BRAVER BAND
NOR BRAVER FOUGHT FOR A FAIRER LAND."

Company K
Company B
Company K
Company I
Company K
Company D
Company E
Company C
Company F
Company G 
Fourth
Twelfth
Thirteenth
Twentysecond  
Twentysecond
Fortyseventh
Fortyseventh
Fifteenth
Fifteenth
Twentieth
Tennessee Infantry
Tennessee Infantry
Tennessee Infantry
Tennessee Infantry
Tennessee Infantry
Tennessee Infantry
Tennessee Infantry
Tennessee Cavalry
Tennessee cavalry
Tennessee Cavalry

-----==~==------
1896 -- DAWSON BIVOUAC -- 1928
Commanders
H. L. Fowlkes
G. B. Miller
J. N. Lauderdale  
I. H. Dawson  
J. P. Grigsby
J. W. Ashcraft
W. N. Roark
C. L. Clairorne

' FOR OUR TOMORROW THEY GAVE THEIR TODAY"

--====== KILLED IN ACTION ======--
Bundy Alexander
Robert Edgar Austin
Robert Allen Brewer 
Tipton J. Brewer
Robert T. Brown
Clarnece F. Butler
Murrow Childress
Earl R. Cooper
Hampton Cooper
Roy Lee Daniels
Wesley Davis
Richard L. Glidewell
Edwin Bruce Gaynor
Linzie B. Greer
George W. Hamilton
George Elbert Hodge 
Ira H. Justice
Elihu Light, Col.
George Looney
George F. Miller
Ira H. Morgan
Emmett H. Moore
Charlie L. Moss
John R. Mulherrin
George W. Rose
John H. Sarrells
Jodie P. Smith
William E. Sparks
George Henry Thompson

--====== DIED IN SERVICE ======--
Lunda Meeks Barber
William Triplett Basye
William Henry Boyd
William B. Boyette
Robert Clyne Burns
Thomas R. Canada
Rock Carver
Jim E. Collins
Claud W. Connell
John Carroll Doyle III 
John W. Ellis
Charley Tilton Fisk
William E. Follis
Ben M. Fowlkes
William T. Freeman 
Robert O. Hancock
Flury Howard
Adrian O. Jett
Will G. Lark, Col.
John E. Lewis
Roy Martin
George Pate
Jesse Pike
Mark L. Poteet
Sherman Prichard, Col.
Cordie L. Reddin
Floyd Richards
L. C. Robinson
Sam Shearer
Bennie Simmons, Col.
Arthur Donnie Skaggs
Robert Lee Spencer
Bob Taylor
Ezra Bonner Thompson
Lee Todd
Orvine Wilson
Luther E. Woodward

DIED OF INJURIES RECEIVED IN SERVICE
Holland Ayers
Harve L. Beach
Charles C. Blood  
Thomas A. Finley
Jerry M. Glidewell
John Henry Harrison 
George Hudson
Dallas T. Baker
Robert B. Montgomery
Will J. Odom
Clifford R. Ozment
Robert Lee Vaughn
Clarence M. Richardson

Presented to the future citizens of Dyer County

Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1928

Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Dawsons Bivouac, United Confederate Veterans

Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate

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