Polk County Obelisk - Livingston, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 30° 42.644 W 094° 56.018
15R E 314831 N 3399141
Grey granite obelisk monument on the Northwest corner of the Polk Courthouse lawn.
Waymark Code: WMWRWM
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/08/2017
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Marker Text on Front:
Take that banner down
'tis tattered
broken is its staff
and shattered,
and the valiant hosts
are scattered,
over whom it floated high
furl that banner
softly, slowly,
treat it gently - it is holy
for it waived where
Heroes fell.
Left Side:
Polk County
furnished the
confederacy
more soldiers than
she had voters.
Back of Shaft:
Defeat does not
always establish
the wrong.
Right Side:
To the Memory
of
Polk County's
Confederate Soldiers.
Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1900
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Ike Turner Camp U.C.V.
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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