[South]:

[Ship's Anchor]

1861-1865

"The world shall yet decide,

In truth's clear, far-off light,

That the soldiers who wore the gray, and died

With Lee were in the right!"

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"Brave men may die - right has no death;

Truth never shall pass away."

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"Come from the four winds,

O breath and breathe upon these slain,

That they may live."

[South Base]:

"On fame's eternal camping ground

Their silent tents are spread

And glory guards with solemn round

The bivouac of the dead."

[West]:

CSA

[Crossed Swords & Crossed Rifles]

Ordinance of Secession

Adopted Dec. 20, 1860

[West Footstone]:

Given in Memory by

William Henry Simpson

July 31, 1907 - May 17, 1992

For His Beloved Abbeville

December 14, 1996

[North]:

[Stainless Banner]

1861-1865

We have furled it; slowly, sadly;

Once we loved it, proudly, gladly,

And we fought beneath it madly,

Fought in bloody, deathly fray;

For we swore to those who gave it,

In triumph we would wave it,

Or life's crimson ride should lave it,

Ere to blue should yield the gray.

Yes, 'tis taken down all faded,

And like those who bore it, jaded,

For through lakes of blood, they waded

Nor did weary footsteps lag,

Oh! 'Twas hard to fold and yield it,

While a man was left to shield it,

For 'twas Dixie's Bonnie Flag.

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"Honor the Brave."

They knew their rights and dared to main them."

[East]:

CSA

Erected by the Daughters of the

Confederacy of

Abbeville County, 1906.

[Laurel Wreath]

[National Flag]

DC

61-65

by

Dario Rossi

1996

Dedicated to the soldiers of

Abbeville District.

[East Base]:

The first mass meeting for secession was

held at Abbeville, S.C., Nov. 22, 1860.

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The last cabinet meeting was held at

Abbeville, S.C., May 2, 1865.

[East Footstone]:

First Monument Erected

August 23, 1906

Destroyed by Fire

December 28, 1991

Second Monument Erected

December 14, 1996

Marker is on Court Square (State Highway 20), in the median.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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