Confederate Square

Confederate Square. "Lest We Forget". Dedicated in proud and loving memory , to the Confederate soldiers who gave their lives on June 24, 1864 during the Battle of Lafayette, 15 of whom share a common grave at this site., Mr. Cyrus Edwards who fought in the battle on the Union side, writes the author under the date of April 25, 1932, as follows: "I was detailed to head a party to clear the street after the fight was over. We picked up the dead and laid them in rows on the side of the street - leaving the best shaded places for the wounded, who were many, and were as soon as possible moved into buildings., "The prisoners, except those wounded were sent at once to Chattanooga and the wounded sent there as soon as it could be done. Several old men came from the country and sccured permission to remove a few of the dead whom they recognized, for burial among their friends I saw no more of the dead, being busy elsewhere, until just as the last of them were being placed in the burial ditch.", Judge W. M. Henry, in an old issue of the Walker County Messenger, relates in a most interesting manner, his experiences of that frightful day. He says among other things: "The Presbyterian church, then having an enclosed front yard, had been converted into a field hospital. Where the Federal dead were laid I do not know. But inside the three sides of the church yard fence, each with his head to the fence, and with something thrown over his face, lay the Confederate dead numbering as I remember it, a few more than twenty.", Miss Orpha Center relates the following story: "the Yankee soldiers passed her home carrying the dead Confederate soldiers to the cemetery for burial. They were playing a funeral dirge and were very respectful and solemn. Her brother, Doc, a mere lad at that time, followed them and saw a large grave where he says they buried 15 in one place, all together in one grave.", Known Confederate Soldiers killed at the Battle of LaFayette Square:, 16th Confederate Cavalry , 12th Mississippi:, Pvt. R.B. Bryan, Co. D , Pvt. James M. Bryant, Co. H , Pvt. Robert, W. Cowley, Co. C , Pvt. E.S. Culpepper, Co. K , Sgt: R.A. Evans, Co. K , Pvt. Thomas Foster, Co. E , Pvt. William Gibson, Co. C , IsrSgt. Henry Holt, Co. K , Pvt. William F. McGee, Co. E , Corp. John Q. Robbins, Co. A , Pvt. Henry Stanton, Co. A, 8th Alabama Cavalry:, 1st Lt. S. S. Johnson, Co. F , Maj. Richard. H. Redwood, Lewis' Battalion Alabama Cavalry:, Maj. Thomas Hall Lewis, 12th Tennessee Cavalry:, Adj. R. B. Bone, Co. B , OS. John T. Densford, Co. B , Pvt. H. C. Kemp, Co. B, K, 14th Tennessee Cavalry:, Pvt. William C. Lewis, 15th Tennessee Cavalry:, None . This historical marker was erected by John B Gordon Camp 599 Sons of Confederate Vererans. It is in LaFayette in Walker County Georgia