Dublin Core
Title
Charles Town Memorial to the Confederate Dead
Type
Site
Identifier
2478
Date Issued
1871-04-26
Extent
m x m x m
Spatial Coverage
current,39.289900,-77.854167;
Europeana
Country
USA
Europeana Data Provider
Charles Town Memorial to the Confederate Dead
Europeana Type
TEXT
Site Item Type Metadata
Wiki
https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/Charles_Town_Memorial_to_the_Confederate_Dead_
Monument Type
Monument
Erected by
Lee Memorial Association
Funded by
Lee Memorial Association
Inscription
Erected
to the memory of the
Confederate Dead
April 26, 1871
by the
Lee Memorial Association
of Jefferson County
There's grandeur in graves, there's glory in gloom
For out of the gloom, future brightness is born.
As, after the night Looms the sunrise of morn.
And the graves of the dead with the grass overgrown,
May yet form the footstool of Liberty's throne.
And in each simple wreck in the way-path of might
Shall yet be a rock in the temple of right.
[from Abram Joseph Ryan's A Land Without Ruins]
It is sweet and honorable
to die for one's country
In life united in the the discharge
of patriotic duty, in death
they ought not to be separated
State
West Virginia
County
Jefferson County
Affiliation
Confederate
Town
Charles Town
Location Type
Cemetery