Augusta Confederate Monument - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Augusta Confederate Monument - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Augusta Confederate Monument, also known as the Richmond County Confederate Monument,McKenney, Frank M., ‘’The Standing Army: The History of Georgia’s County Monuments’’, WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, GA, 1993 pp. 99–103. is located in the median of the 700 block of Broad Street in downtown Augusta, Georgia, and is inscribed, in part “In Memoriam 'No nation rose so white and fair: None fell so pure of crime.' Our Confederate Dead.” The monument is seventy-six feet high on a granite base, topped by a shaft of Carrara marble. The monument was commissioned in 1875 by the Ladies Memorial Association of Augusta. It was designed by the architectural firm of VanGruder and Young of Philadelphia, built by the Markwalter firm of Augusta,McKenney, Frank M., The Standing Army: The History of Georgia's County Monuments, WH Wolfe Associates, Alpharetta, GA, 1993 p. 101. carved by Antonio Fontana, and dedicated on October 31, 1878. Read more on Wikipedia
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