Defenders of Charleston Monument - Charleston, SC
N 32° 48.953 W 079° 56.643
17S E 598849 N 3631369
The Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina, contains a section dedicated to Civil War soldiers. In the center of this section of the cemetery is a Confederate memorial known as the "Defenders of Charleston" monument.
Waymark Code: WM4QVJ
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 09/21/2008
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The text on the front of the monument reads: "In memory of the sons of Charleston who fell around her walls, who sleep on many battlefields in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and North Carolina, and who lie in distant graves around their Northern prisons. These died for their State."
The text on the back of the monument reads: "This Bronze preserves the memory of the Heroic Dead from every part of Carolina and from her sister states of the South who fell in the defence of this city. In proud and grateful remembrance of their devotion, constancy and valor, who against overwhelming odds by sea and by land kept Charleston virgin and invincible to the last."
From the South Carolina Order of the Confederate Rose website:
Buried at Magnolia are 2,200 Civil War veterans - a great percentage of the war's total casualties that includes five Confederate generals and 14 signers of the Ordinance of Secession. "The Confederate connection probably attracts the most people, because there are so many buried here from that era," notes Donald. A special Confederate section contains more than 1,700 graves of the known and unknown. One reads, simply, "Unknown, Three Bodies, Fort Sumter." Here, too, are 84 bodies of South Carolinians who fell at Gettysburg and were reinterred at Magnolia.