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The Cross of Honor is in the form of a cross pattée suspended from a metal bar with space for engraving. It has no cloth ribbon. The obverse displays the Confederate battle flag placed on the center thereof surrounded by a wreath, with the inscription UNITED DAUGHTERS [of the] CONFEDERACY TO THE U. C. V. (the UCV is the United Confederate Veterans) on the four arms of the cross.
'in part: "SOUTHERN / CROSS / OF / HONOR" " DEO / VENDICI /1861 / 1865" " COMRADES / "TO OUR / CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS", "LEST WE FORGET / ERECTED BY / U.D.C. CHAPTER 217, / JEFFERSON, GA. 1911" The statue was accidentally badly damaged and removed in 1940 at which time a cross was placed atop the monument. [44] Bibb County Confederate Memorial ...
In 1968, the Sons of Confederate Veterans passed a resolution to issue a "medal of honor" and began minting them in 1977. [2] According to past executive director Ben Sewell, "[t]he SCV created their own Confederate Medal of Honor simply because there were some incredible acts of valor that had received little or no recognition during and after the war". [3]
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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 ]
President Joe Biden will award the Medal of Honor on Wednesday for “conspicuous gallantry” to a pair of Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the American ...
Two Union soldiers from the American Civil War were posthumously awarded with the Medal of Honor by President Joe Biden on Wednesday, more than 160 years after being executed for their part in a ...
The Confederate Roll of Honor, officially the Roll of Honor, was an award of the Confederate States Army created by Adjutant and Inspector General Samuel Cooper on October 3, 1863 (authorized by act of Congress, October 13, 1862), to recognize "courage and good conduct on the field of battle."