The Great Seal of the State of California
The Great Seal of the State of California
designed by
Major Robert Selden Garnett,
U.S. Army,
and adopted by the Constitutional
Convention of 1849 at Monterey.
Commissioned a Brigadier General
in the Confederate States Army
He was killed in West Virginia in 1861, the first general officer to be killed in the War Between The States.
Dedicated by California Division
United Daughters of the Confederacy
May 4, 1957
Marker is on Pacific Street near Jefferson Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
