Massive Monuments -- Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville GA
N 32° 12.167 W 084° 07.915
16S E 770357 N 3566521
One of a series of signs in the Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville GA, this sign discusses the massive state monuments here
Waymark Code: WMWJ01
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/09/2017
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This sign was erected by the National Park Service and the Andersonville National Cemetery in Andersonville. It is near the New York monument, and reads as follows:
"MASSIVE MONUMENTS
1911 the state of New York erected this granite monument to honor its troops who died in Andersonville prison. Large monuments were a fashion of the time, built on a scale that would symbolize the prisoners enormous sacrifice.
There are 12 monuments the cemetery and 11 in the nearby prison site. Each has a unique design. Because so little remains of the historic prison, the monuments form a prominent part of the Andersonville landscape.
"Theirs was not the glory of death on the firing line. Penned in by the deadline, wasted by disease, far from home and loved ones, they were mercifully mustered out, leaving as a heritage to the nation the memory of a devotion as limitless as eternity itself." -- Address by Governor A. T. Bliss at the dedication of the Michigan monument, Andersonville, May 30, 1904.
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Dedication of the New York monument April 29, 1914. The Woman's Relief Corps acquired the prison site in 1896, erected the pavilion at Providence Spring, and encouraged states to build memorials."
Type of Marker: Park
Sponsor: National Park Service
Marker #: Not listed
Date: Not listed
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