Unknown Soldiers Monument & Mound

West side of monument:

To the
UNKNOW AND UNRECORDED
Dead
South side of monument:

Erected A.D. 1879, by the people of the South, to the 829 unknown Confederate Dead, who lie beneath this mound, in grateful rememberance of their Heroic Virtues, and that their example of unstinted Devotion to Duty and Country may never be forgotten
North Side of monument:

WHO THEY WERE, NONE KNOW;
WHAT THEY WERE, ALL KNOW.

 

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