Lavaca County Confederate Memorial -- Hallettsville TX
N 29° 26.691 W 096° 56.580
14R E 699510 N 3259033
The monument dedicated to the Confederate soldiers from Lavaca County who captured Galveston in 1863
Waymark Code: WM15YVM
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/25/2022
Views: 2
This striped marble obelisk stands on the southwest corner of the Lavaca County Courthouse grounds in downtown Hallettsville TX.
The monument reads as follows:
[Side 1]
[on obelisk]
CAPT. WILLIAM SMITHERS
[on base]
Jan. 1, 1863 Jan 1, 1914
In commemoration
of the 50th Anniversary
of the Capture of Galveston
by the Southern Confederacy
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GEN. ARTHUR P. BAGBY
Commanding the
"NEPTUNE"
[Side 2]
[on base]
Gen. John B. MacGruder
Col. Tom Green
Col. Arthur P. Bagby
Com. Leon Smith
Co. G W. H. H. Brazier
In Memory of the men of Lavaca County who fought in the Civil War
[Side 3]
Banners may be furled but heroism lives forever.
[Side 4]
[on obelisk]
CAPT. J. W. WHITFIELD
[on base]
Lieut. J. W. Carson
Private Jno. Buchanan
Capt. Jas. Walker
Sergeant W. H. Turk
Dedicated to the heroes who wore the gray at the battle of Galveston.
Jan. 1, 1863"
Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1921
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Lavaca County
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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