Cicero - Confederate Monument - Savannah, TN
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YoSam.
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This quote is often used, modernized language and then attributed to "Author Unknown"...why the correct credit is not given I do not understand...
Waymark Code: WM11DDY
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 10/02/2019
Views: 2
County of quote: Hardin County
Location of quote: 463 Main St., courthouse lawn, Savannah
Quote made by: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Text of Monument:
(front): Erected 1995 by the Battle of Shiloh Camp #1454 Sons of Confederate Veterans
(Proper Right): C.S.A.
Confederate Units formed in Hardin County
1st (12th) Confederate Cavalry Reg't., Co. G
21st (Wilson's) Tenn. Cavalry Reg't., CO. A,B,F, and H.
Captain J.W. Phillips Co. Light Artillery.
Crews Tenn. Infantry Reg't.; Seven Companies consolidated into Co.
F 9th (5th) Kentucky Infantry Reg't., later Co. B, 23rd Tenn.
Infantry Battalion.
1st (Maney's) Tenn. Infantry Reg't., Co. G.
34th Tenn. Infantry Reg't., Co. B.
(proper Left): This monument erected in honor of the gallant Confederate soldiers of Hardin County who fought and died and suffered during the War Between the States 1861-1865.
Sacred is the memory of the men and women of Hardin County for the sacrifices whey made in defending their homeland.
Nor shall your glory be forgotten.
(rear): Poor is a nation that has no heroes.
Shameful is a nation that has heroes and forges them.
No nation can long survive without pride in its traditions.