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Confederate Memorial Day observance in front of the Monument to Confederate Dead, Arlington National Cemetery, on June 8, 2014. In the spring of 1866 the Ladies Memorial Association of Columbus, Georgia, passed a resolution to set aside one day annually to memorialize the Confederate war dead.
Surrounded by the bodies of an estimated 3,000 unnamed Confederate soldiers, it was commissioned by the Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association and dedicated on Confederate Memorial Day in 1894." [ 40 ] In 2019, the city of Atlanta added a marker contextualizing its continued placement on state-owned property. [ 12 ]
Although Confederate Memorial Day is a holiday in most Southern states, the tradition of having a Confederate History Month is not uniform. State governments that have regularly declared Confederate History Month are as follows: Alabama [2] Florida [2] (since 2007) Georgia (by proclamation since 1995, [2] by legislative authority since 2009 [3 ...
Georgia Day is the holiday which the U.S. state of Georgia recognizes in honor of its colonial founding as the Province of Georgia. On February 12, 1733 [NS] [ 1 ] James Oglethorpe landed the first settlers in the Anne , at what was to become Georgia's first city (and later the first state capital ), Savannah .
Georgia was one of the original seven slave states that formed the Confederate States of America in February 1861, triggering the U.S. Civil War.The state governor, Democrat Joseph E. Brown, wanted locally raised troops to be used only for the defense of Georgia, in defiance of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, who wanted to deploy them on other battlefronts.
Elizabeth Rutherford was the daughter of Adolphus S. Rutherford and Susan Thweatt, born in Columbus, Georgia, on June 1, 1833.Her father was a clerk of the court and represented Muscogee County at the secession convention in 1861, along with Henry Benning and James N. Ramsey.
Lt R.A. Mizell of the "Southern Rifles" Company A 4th Georgia Infantry; resigned in 1864 after being wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness; joined Company "A" 2nd Kentucky Cavalry of John Hunt Morgan command Captain Augustus C. Thompson of Co. G, 16th Georgia Infantry Regiment with sword.
The Confederate Memorial Park in Albany, Georgia, United States is located on Philema Road across from Chehaw Park. [ 1 ] The stone monument to Albany's Confederate veterans from the American Civil War was originally located in downtown Albany in the middle of the intersection of Jackson Street and Pine Avenue.