Greenwood County Confederate Monument

South Side:

Our

Confederate

Soldiers

East Side:

1861 - 1865

Patriots

Who animated by the same faith, actuated by the same love of country, beset with the same trials and dangers, enduring with the same fortitude and fought as heroically to maintain local self government as did the colonial fathers to attain, the same and with then are immortalized in the same hall of glory.

North Side:

But their memories e'er shall remain for us,

and their names bright names without stain for us, -

the glory they won shall not wain for us.

In legend and lay

Our heroes in gray

Shall forever live over again for us.

West Side:

Erected by

The Ladies Memorial Association

of Greenwood County

1903.

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How sleep the brave who sink to rest by all their country's wishes blest.

Marker is on Monument Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Credits and Sources:

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