Confederate Memorial -- Perry GA
N 32° 27.475 W 083° 44.024
17S E 243034 N 3594486
The tall Lost Cause era Confederate Memorial at the Houston County Courthouse in Perry GA
Waymark Code: WMWK6D
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/14/2017
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This tall Confederate memorial was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy on the northeast corner of the Houston County Courthouse grounds in Perry GA in 1908.
It is a tall grey granite memorial with multiple stacked plinths. The base of the monument is made of sloped rough-hewn granite blocks with an inset bas-releif plaque reading "Our Confederate Dead".
The first level features the "COMRADES" in bas relief beneath a wider rectangular die (main part) engraved as follows:
[N side]
"May this shaft ever
Call to memory
"The Story of the Glory
Of the Men Who Wore the Grey"
[E side]
"In Honor of the men of Houston County who served in the Army of the Confederate States of America.
"Those who fought and lived, and those who fought and died"
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Erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy"
The die is topped by rough shaft a grey granite that ends in a turret top, on which a Confederate soldier stands at in a posture of readiness for the battle that he can see coming to him.
Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1908
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: United Daughters of the Confederacy
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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