Installed in June 1917, the Confederate Monument was not dedicated until months later, after the local UDC chapter finished raising the $2500 needed. The monument was designed by the McNeel Marble Company of Marietta, Georgia. The completed monument…
A seven-foot soldier, clutching a rifle and bayonet with both hands and with a knapsack slung across his shoulder. Bennett Young, a son of Jessamine County and the leader of the infamous St. Albans Raid on October 19, 1864, gave the dedicatory…