A Tradition of Remembering, A Legacy of Preservation
Eleven years after the battle of Rivers Bridge,
a group of local young men formed the Rivers
Bridge Confederate Memorial Association and
reburied the Confederate dead here, about a
mile from the battlefield. The Memorial
Association began to meet at the site every year
to recall the battle and the fallen Southerners.
This area soon became known as the Memorial
Grounds, and the Memorial Association's
annual service to commemorate the Confederate
dead - a tradition that continues to this day -
eventually led to the preservation of the
battlefield where the soldiers fell.
Marker is on Rivers Bridge State Park near SC-S-5-8.
Courtesy hmdb.org
