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in part, "By the Asheville Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy and Friends, This monument is erected commemorating the heroic part taken by the 60th Regt. N.C. volunteers in the great battle of Chickamauaga, Sept. 20, 1863 where it was given post of honor by "State Commission" appointed in 1893 to locate the position of each N.C. regt ...
The DeKalb County Confederate Monument is a Confederate memorial that formerly stood in Decatur, Georgia, United States. The 30-foot stone obelisk (9.1 m) was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy near the old county courthouse in 1908. [1] [2]
Benton was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia.She grew up during racial segregation. [1] Her great-grandfather, George W. Washington, was an enslaved man from Sumter, South Carolina who served as a body servant to his enslaver's son, Lieutenant William Alexander McQueen, from 1862 to the last days of the American Civil War, [2] seeing the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the ...
Lewis’ statue stands at the former site of an obelisk erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908. DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A crowd was on hand at a city park in Georgia Saturday to ...
A large bronze statue of the late civil rights leader and politician Congressman John Lewis is installed where a monument to the Confederacy was brought down in 2020, in the wake of the death of ...
Ella Thomas Foreacre Brantley (née Foreacre; also known as Mrs. A. P. Brantley; 1864–1948) was an American clubwoman and civic leader. [1] She was one of the first members of the Atlanta chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), and she served as President of the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs (FWC).
Milledgeville: Confederate Memorial Fountain, downtown median, erected by United Daughters of the Confederacy (1912). 20 feet (6.1 m) fall. Originally across from Post Office and Courthouse; later moved to street in front of Georgia Military College. "On the front is 'CSA' and the furled battle flag with a broken shaft.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy named a chapter in Alabama after Col. Rucker about 37 years ago. But an even bigger honor came back in 1942, ... Fort Benning, was named in Georgia. Dad ...