FIRST -- Confederate Flag Raising in GA, Preston GA
N 32° 03.974 W 084° 32.227
16S E 732496 N 3550431
The site where the Confederate flag was raised over Georgia for the first time
Waymark Code: WMWKT2
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/16/2017
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On 31 Mar 2861 the Confederate flag was raised over Georgia for the first time. A state historic marker at the Webster County courthouse marks the occasion and reads as follows:
"FIRST CONFEDERATE FLAG RAISING IN GEORGIA
On this Courthouse lawn the first Confederate flag raising in Georgia took place March 31, 1861. Judge David B. Harrell of Webster County, Capt. James Pickett of Red Hill, Dr. Harvis Pickett of Weston, with their companies of soldiers, trained in Preston. Voting for Miss Mollie Josey as the most popular girl in town, the troops chose her to raise the flag. With much ceremony and enthusiasm a vast crowd witnessed the rites. At the end of the war Union troops stationed in Preston cut down and destroyed the flagpole."
FIRST - Classification Variable: Item or Event
Date of FIRST: 03/31/1861
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