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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: July 1985
Caption: Confederate Memorial
Additional Description: Confederate Monument Perryville State Historic Site (Boyle County) Limestone figure on pedestal, 1902 Front (South) Inscription: Nor braver bled for a brighter land, no brighter land had a cause so grand. Confederate Memorial East Inscription: (Names of 23 men killed) On flames eternal camping ground, their tents are spread, and glory guards with solemn round -- the bivouac of the dead. Rear (North) Inscription: Erected by the State of Kentucky Commissioners: R. J. Breckinridge, B. O. Rodes, S. D. Van Pelt Architects & Builders Peter-Burghard, St. Co., Louisville -- Nor shall your glory be forgot -- while fame her record keeps -- or honor points the hallowed spot – where valor proudly sleeps. West Inscription: (Names of 14 men killed and a note that 470 unknown soldiers are also buried there) Nor wreck, nor change, or winters blight -- nor times remorseless doom shall dim one ray of holy light, that gilds your glorious tomb.
Submitted: February 6, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p15470
File Size: 0.247 Megabytes

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