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Photographer: Stanley and Terrie Howard
Taken: September 6, 2008
Caption: Grave Stone
Additional Description: While attending a reunion of Confederate veterans in Atlanta in July 1898, Mrs. Alexander S. (Mary Ann Lamar Cobb) Erwin of Athens, Ga., conceived the idea of bestowing the Southern Cross of Honor on Confederate veterans . Mrs. Erwin and Mrs. Sarah E. Gabbett of Atlanta are credited with the design of the medal: a Maltese cross with a wreath of laurel surrounding the words "Deo Vindice (God our Vindicator) 1861-1865" and the inscription, "Southern Cross of Honor" on the face. On the reverse side is a Confederate battle flag surrounded by a laurel wreath and the words "United Daughters of the Confederacy to the UCV."
Submitted: September 7, 2008, by Stanley and Terrie Howard of Greer, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p34607
File Size: 1.085 Megabytes

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