Confederate Soldier Monument - Camden, AL
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N 31° 59.708 W 087° 17.616
16R E 472266 N 3539933
Located in the Camden Cemetery, this monument to the Wilcox County confederate war dead, was erected in 1880.
Waymark Code: WMHYQK
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 08/28/2013
Views: 3
Built in 1880, there are three blocks of Alabama granite at
the base. Resting on this is a square shaft of the same stone
surmounted by a figure of a Confederate Soldier resting " At
arms." On the center of the shaft is the Coat of Arms of the
State of Alabama. The cost for the monument was $1,064
and 22 years later a steel and wire fence was put around the
memorial at a cost of $230.
Inscriptions:
Front side:
IN MEMORY
OF THE
CONFEDERATE DEAD
OF
WILCOX COUNTY
1861. - 1865.
"THE MANNER OF THEIR DEATH WAS
THE CROWNING GLORY OF THEIR LIVES."
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Side 2 (Left)
THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR US;
FOR THE HONOR OF ALABAMA;
FOR THE RIGHTS OF STATES;
AND FOR THE PRINCIPLES OF THE
UNION AS THESE WERE HANDED
DOWN TO US BY THE FATHERS
OF OUR COMMON COUNTRY.
Side 3 (Rear)
ERECTED
by the
LADIES' MEMORIAL
and
WILCOX MONUMENTAL
ASSOCIATIONS
April 26th, A.D. 1880.
Side 4 (Right)
'WHEN MARBLE WEARS AWAY
AND MONUMENTS ARE DUST,
THE SONGS THAT GUARD OUR
SOLDIERS' CLAY
WILL STILL FULFIL THEIR TRUST."
FATHER RYAN.
Date Installed or Dedicated: 04/26/1880
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Ladies Memorial and Wilcox Monumental Associations
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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