Jenkins County Confederate Monument (Millen, Georgia)

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Title

Jenkins County Confederate Monument (Millen, Georgia)

Source

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Language

English

Type

Site

Identifier

1650

Date Issued

1909-01-01

Extent

m x m x m

Spatial Coverage

current,32.804004,-81.939328;

Europeana

Country

USA

Europeana Data Provider

Jenkins County Confederate Monument

Europeana Type

TEXT

Site Item Type Metadata

Wiki

https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/Jenkins_County_Confederate_Monument

Monument Type

Statue - standing soldier

Funded by

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Inscription

On front of base:) 1861-1865 (Raised lettering:) ERECTED JUNE 3RD 1909 / BY / THE WAYSIDE HOME / CHAPTER. U.D.C. / IN HONOR OF OUR / CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS, / WHOM POWER COULD / NOT CORRUPT WHOM DEATH COULD / NOT TERRIFY, / WHOM DEFEAT COULD / NOT DISHONOR. THOSE WHO SERVED. / THE / CONFEDERACY. (On right side of base:) CSA / THOSE WHO FOUGHT (On rear of base:) 1861-1865 / THESE WERE MEN WHO / BY THE SIMPLE MANHOOD / OF THEIR LIVES. / BY / THEIR STRICT ADHERENCE / TO THE PRINCIPLES OF RIGHTS, / BY THEIR SUBLIME / COURAGE. / AND UNSPEAKABLE SACRIFICE, / EVEN TO THE HEROISM OF DEATH, / HAVE PRESERVED FOR US, / THROUGH THE GLOOM OF DEFEAT, / A PRICELESS HERITAGE OF HONOR. / FOR EACH SINGLE WRECK / IN THE WAR PATH OF MIGHT, / HALL YET BE A ROCK IN / THE TEMPLE OF RIGHT. / THOSE WHO FELL (On left side of base:) CSA (Raised lettering:) COMRADES.

State

Georgia

County

Jenkins

Affiliation

Confederate

City

Millen