Confederate Dead-GHM 141-12-Troup County
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Sprinterman
N 33° 01.786 W 085° 01.923
16S E 683790 N 3656307
Front of Cemetery, Miller St near Douglas St, LaGrange
Waymark Code: WM4Q03
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/17/2008
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About 300 Confederate soldiers are buried here, most of whom died of wounds or disease in the several Confederate hospitals located in LaGrange. Most of these men served in the Confederate Army of Tennessee and participated in many bloody engagements. The hospitals here were the St. Marys. Oliver Cannon. Law. and some temporary ones. The "Nancy Hearts." a militia Organization of gallant Confederate women, assisted in nursing the sick and wounded, as did other patriotic men and women of this vicinity.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 141-12
Date: 1956
Sponsor: Not listed
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