Perryville Confederate Memorial
(front, south)
Confederate Memorial
Nor braver bled for a brighter land, no brighter land had a cause so grand.
(side, east)
On flames eternal camping ground their tents are spread. And glory guards with solemn round the bivouac of the dead.
Capt. Cogar • Capt. Wm. B. Cathey. • T.J. Cogar. • James Stewart. • Jessie Brow. • William Crittenden. • William Patterson. • Edmund W. Ferris Macon. Miss • E.L. Hill, Co. A 37th Miss • William Jordan, " " • Lewis Jordan, " " • Lenard Kogan, " " • C.W. Little, " " • James Vernon, Co. B " • Thomas Vernon, Co. D " • John Bowen " " • Samuel Fenderbank, Co. E " • A. Molden, Co. G " • Cathley Cordds, Ord. Sergt. " • Thomas Hargis, Co. G " • James Upson, Co. I • Newton Brown, " • James C. Nunally, Co. K.
(rear, north)
1861 1865
Erected by the State of Kentucky
Commissioners: R. J. Breckinridge • B.O. Rodes • J. H. Baughman • S. D. Vanpelt
Architects and Builders: Peter-Burghard, St. Co. Louisville, KY.
Nor shall your glory be forgot while fame her record Keeps, or honor points the hallowed spot where valor proudly sleeps.
(side, west)
Nor wreck, nor change, or winters blight, nor times remorseless doom, shall dim one ray of holy light, that gilds your glorious tomb.
Maj. Samuel H. Ransom 1st Tenn. • Lieut. Cicero Sperlock 16th " • 26 men of the 1st Tenn. • Maj. B.F. Gaylor Co. B. 30th Miss. • Capt. James Rains " " • Lieut. Ed. Seabrook " " • William Nesbit " " • J.M. Pendleton " " • William C. Stewart " • C. H. Anderson " " • Lieut. Edwards 30th Miss. • Lieut. Lawber " " • Robert Montgomery " " • John McClanahan " " • W. R. Kyle " " • and 444 unknown heroes.
Marker can be reached from Park Road 0.3 miles west of Battlefield Road (Kentucky Route 1920).
Courtesy hmdb.org
