Jenkins County Confederate Monument (Millen, Georgia)
Confederate
Monument type:
Statue - standing soldier
Artist:
Dedication Date:
1909-01-01
Address:
Millen
Jenkins
Georgia
USA
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.
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United Daughters of the Confederacy
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Indigenous Land
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