1861-1865

(East Face)

In Commemoration of the deeds and services of the Buchanan Company. Organized Oct. 1859, as the Mountain Rifles Virginia Volunteers. Enlisted May 1861, in the Confederate States Army, for twelve months, as Co. 1-H-28 Regiment Virginia Infantry. Reenlisted Nov. 1861, for the war, as Anderson's Battery Light Artillery. Renamed, March 1863, as the Botetourt Artillery.

(South Face)

To Our Loving, self-sacrificiing, Confederate women.

(West Face)

To our comrades who have died since the war, and to the survivors of our Company.

(North Face)

To our officers and men who were killed in battle, and who dies from wounds and disease during the war.

Marker is on Main St (U.S. 11), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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