Mount Pleasant in Maury County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)

Mount Pleasant Confederate Memorial

Photographed by Tracy Marsteller, July 17, 2021

1. Mount Pleasant Confederate Memorial

Inscription. (East face)
Erected in memory of our
Confederate soldiers
by the
Bigby Gray Chapter, U.D.C.
The love, gratitude and memory
of the people of the South
shall gild their fame in one
eternal sunshine
(south face)
History has
enshrined them immortal
(west face)
Crest to crest, they bore our
banner
side by side they fell asleep
hand to hand we rear this token
heart to heart we kneel and
weep
(north face)
1861-1865
In perpetual remembrance

Erected 1907 by Bigby Gray Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Topics and series. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil. In addition, it is included in the United Daughters of the Confederacy series list.

Location. 35° 32.057′ N, 87° 12.436′ W. Memorial is in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee, in Maury County. It is at the intersection of South Main Street (Tennessee Route 166) and Hay Long Avenue, on the right when traveling south on South Main Street. Memorial is in a small park. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Mount Pleasant TN 38474, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Middle Tennessee

and in Greater Nashville.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Upper South.

Globally, it is in 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 Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least

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8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: The Bigby Greys (here, next to this marker); Mount Pleasant Commercial Historic District (within shouting distance of this marker); Breckenridge Hatter's Shop (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Highland Hall (about 700 feet away); Clarke Training School (approx. 0.3 miles away); Rattle and Snap Plantation (approx. 3.6 miles away); St. John's Episcopal Church (approx. 4.7 miles away); Delaying Forrest (approx. 4.7 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Mount Pleasant.

Mount Pleasant Confederate Memorial (east face) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tracy Marsteller, July 17, 2021

2. Mount Pleasant Confederate Memorial (east face)

Mount Pleasant Confederate Memorial (north and west faces) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tracy Marsteller, July 17, 2021

3. Mount Pleasant Confederate Memorial (north and west faces)

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