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Quitman in Brooks County, Georgia — The American South (South Atlantic)
 

Our Confederate Dead

 
 
Our Confederate Dead Monument image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael Herrick, March 25, 2017
1. Our Confederate Dead Monument
Inscription.
Our Confederate Dead.
Erected
By The Ladies
Memorial Association
1878.

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Brothers!
Rest In Peace.

 
Erected 1878 by The Ladies Memorial Association.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil.
 
Location. 30° 47.118′ N, 83° 33.581′ W. Memorial is in Quitman, Georgia, in Brooks County. It is at the intersection of E. Screven Street and S. Court Street, on the right when traveling west on E. Screven Street. Located next to the Brooks County Courthouse. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 100 E Screven Street, Quitman GA 31643, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Georgia’s Coastal Plain. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Deep South, and in the Wiregrass. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate
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States of America, and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Brooks County (a few steps from this marker); Brooks County Courthouse (within shouting distance of this marker); Brooks County Veterans Monument (within shouting distance of this marker); Quitman Veterans Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Civil War Slave Conspiracy (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Quitman United Methodist Church (approx. 0.2 miles away); West End Cemetery (approx. 0.4 miles away); Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church (approx. 2.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Quitman.
 
Our Confederate Dead Monument image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael Herrick, March 25, 2017
2. Our Confederate Dead Monument
( back )
Our Confederate Dead Monument image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael Herrick, March 25, 2017
3. Our Confederate Dead Monument
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on March 12, 2019. It was originally submitted on March 27, 2017, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut. This page has been viewed 588 times since then and 33 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on March 27, 2017, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.
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