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Confederate Cemetery State Historical Marker
- Confederate Cemetery State Historical
Marker
- Located at the end of E. Church St. near the flagpole
in the Confederate section of the old city cemetery in Americus,
Ga.
(Text)
- CONFEDERATE CEMETERY
Here rest 129 Confederate soldiers
-- 45 of them "Unknown" -- all of whom died in Confederate
hospitals in Americus. These men served in the Army of Tennessee.
Some were with Gen. Jubal Early in the Washington, D.C. raid
in July, 1864. Others were sent here from Andersonville, suffering
and dying from the same diseases that beset Federal prisoners
there. Mortality among the prison guards was as high as among
the prisoners. Gallant women of the vicinity aided in the care
of these men -- all of whom gave their lives for the Confederacy.
- 129-4 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1956
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- © Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
University of Georgia
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