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United Daughters of the Confederacy Historical Markers
Markers erected by or related to the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). UDC is an American hereditary association of Southern women established in 1894 in Nashville, Tennessee. The purpose of the organization includes the commemoration of Confederate soldiers and the funding of the erection of memorials to these men.
By Brian Scott, September 13, 2015
Dissolution of the Confederate Government marker
GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| | On this site stood the old Georgia State Bank building in which Pres. Davis held the last official cabinet meeting of the Confederacy May 4, 1865.
Present
President Jefferson Davis
Post. M. Gen. John H. Reagan
Sec. of Navy Stephen R. . . . — — Map (db m66815) HM |
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This museum shows the splendors of plantation life in Georgia before the War Between the States, displays relics, mementos and keepsakes of the era that tried mens souls, and adds a fine collection of Indian relics for variety. Washington had . . . — — Map (db m26511) HM |
| | Erected
Anno Domini 1908
By the
"Last Cabinet" Chapter
United
Daughters of The Confederacy,
Ladies
Memorial Association,
and
Sons of Veterans.
—
A tribute
of abiding love
for our
Confederate Heroes.
(Left . . . — — Map (db m30352) HM |
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Who defended Gordon GA. from
the invasion of Sherman's Army
Nov. 1864 — — Map (db m103163) HM |
| | To honor the memory of
Robert Toombs
July 2, 1810 – Dec. 15, 1885
United States Senator
Secretary of State, C.S.A.
Patriot and Statesman
For whom the town of Toombsboro is named — — Map (db m41908) HM |
| | Two blocks South of this marker
on March 6, 1814, was born
Sarah Knox Taylor
Daughter of
Capt. And Mrs. Zachary Taylor
Miss Taylor married Lieut. Jefferson Davis
at Louisville, Kentucky on June 17, 1835
and died in West Feliciana . . . — — Map (db m23263) HM |
| | This marks the spot where
the only battle was fought
in Daviess County during
the War Between the States
Sept. 20, 1862 — — Map (db m159291) HM |
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In Memory of
Greenville R. Davidson
and
Confederate Veterans
of Floyd County
Who Fought for Our Confederacy — — Map (db m97254) WM |
| | Here on Nov. 18-20, 1861, delegates from 68 counties of Kentucky in convention, by the ancient right of self determination and revolution, set up a newly constituted State of Kentucky. Henry C. Burnett, Trigg, was President of the Convention. Robert . . . — — Map (db m124170) HM |
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Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston
Born February 2 - 1803
Washington, KY.
Killed at Shiloh Tenn.
April 6 - 1862
Graduated West Point 1826,
Black Hawk War,
War for Texas Independence,
Mexican War, . . . — — Map (db m84142) HM |
| | Zero Milestone
Jefferson Davis Highway
Fairview, Ky. - Biloxi, Miss.
Erected 1930 by
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Born June 3, 1808
in Christian, now Todd Co. KY.
Died December 6, 1889
in New Orleans, . . . — — Map (db m3034) HM |
| | A newly constituted state of Kentucky, having been conceived in sovereignty convention Nov. 18-20, 1861 at Russellville,
established Bowling Green as its capitol. The commissioners to the Confederate Congress in Richmond were William Preston, . . . — — Map (db m129938) HM |
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(center panel)
The Finest of Texas and Arizona,
Lives lost by river and bayou.
We mark their graves,
Remember their names:
Brave Confederates who died
At Fort Butler, June 28, 1863.
Martha M. Boltz
Virginia Division - . . . — — Map (db m86049) WM |
| | In Memory of Louisiana and Texas Confederate Soldiers who Died During an Epidemic While In Camp at Niblett's Bluff. — — Map (db m136233) HM WM |
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In Memory of
the Confederates killed
in the Battle of
Pleasant Hill
April 9, 1864 — — Map (db m105407) WM |
| | On this site, then the town of Pleasant Hill, on April 9th, 1864 Gen. Richard Taylor with 12,000 Confederates attacked the town, occupied behind log breastworks by Gen. Banks and 25,000 Federal troops. Through the afternoon the battle raged. That . . . — — Map (db m105402) HM |
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To our
Confederate
Soldiers — — Map (db m90259) WM |
| | Side A
We care not whence they came
Dear is their lifeless clay
Whether unknown or known to fame
Their cause and country still the same
They died and wore Gray.
Side B
In memory of the thirty-nine members of Co. A. 2nd . . . — — Map (db m94473) HM WM |
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In memory of our
Confederate Soldiers
of Madison Parish, LA
who enlisted and
served during the
War Between the States — — Map (db m90262) WM |
| | Commander in Chief
Confederate States of America
1861 – 1865
Placed by
Julia Jackson Chapter No. 4
Children of the Confederacy — — Map (db m51593) HM |
| | Fort Buhlow and Fort Randolph were earthwork/moat fortifications constructed beginning October 1864 by Confederate forces anticipating a repetition of Union Gen. Nathaniel Banks Summer 1864 Red River
Expedition. Construction, completed March 1865, . . . — — Map (db m7848) HM |
| | Incorporated November, 1947, located partly on Indian-French settlement & trading post site. In 1739 much of this area was sold to Joseph Delille Dupart, a Commissioner of Indian Nations under Bienville. Today area is location of various industries. . . . — — Map (db m71147) HM |
| | As Madame Beauregard lay dying in New Orleans, she yearned to see her husband once more, but his duties in the Confederate Army made his return impossible. She knew her husband could not be spared as a soldier of the South, and she resigned herself . . . — — Map (db m85143) HM |
| | This cabin was believed to be built in 1929 to serve as the meeting house for the Camp Moore Chapter No. 562, United Daughters of the Confederacy and served in that capacity for many years. It originally stood east of Marker No. 2 but was removed to . . . — — Map (db m92336) HM |
| | Gloria Victis-To the Soldiers and Sailors of Maryland in the service of the Confederate States of America. 1861-1865
{The front of the base of the monument} — — Map (db m62306) WM |
| | Within this cemetery is buried Brig. General Lewis A. Armistead Born New Bern, N.C. Feb. 16, 1817 Died at Gettysburg, Pa. July 3, 1863 Where men under his command made the farthest northern advance by any Southern troops Captain U.S. Army . . . — — Map (db m21366) HM |
| | Chief of the Confederate States Army Signal Corps and Secret Service Bureau, 1862–1865. Appointed Commissioner of Prisoner Exchange with rank of Colonel in April 1865. The Norris Home, “Bookland,” stood 2½ miles south of this . . . — — Map (db m2064) HM |
| | Here on farmlands bordering the Monocacy River, the fate of the nations capital was decided July 9, 1864, when Union troops confronted Confederate soldiers marching toward Washington. Though the Confederates won this battle on Northern soil, they . . . — — Map (db m41915) HM |
| | and is in memory – of – The Southern Solders who fell in the battle fought July 9, 1864 which resulted in a Confederate victory ——— Erected July 9, 1914 by the Fitzhugh Lee Chapter United Daughters of the . . . — — Map (db m155659) HM |
| | On September 9, 1862, the running engagement between Illinois, Indiana, and Virginia cavalry units that began the day before in Poolesville continued in Beallsville when two Federal regiments forced the single regiment of Virginia cavalrymen posted . . . — — Map (db m1681) HM |
| | May 15, 1862, with seventeen young Marylanders he organized First Maryland cavalry. He served consistently and gallantly, rising from Private to Lt. Colonel. Killed at South Anna River, Virginia, June 1, 1864. — — Map (db m362) HM |
| | To
Our Heroes
of
Montgomery Co.
Maryland
That We Through Life
May Not Forget to Love
The Thin Gray Line
Erected A.D. 1913
1861 CSA 1865 — — Map (db m106402) WM |
| | (1807–1877) Born Charles County. Attended Charlotte Hall Mil. Academy. US Navy – Mexican War. Practiced Law. Commissioned in CSN 1861. Captained CSS Sumter. Later commanded CSS Alabama. Most successful raider with 82 naval victories. . . . — — Map (db m140069) HM |
| | C.S.A.
On this site in an oak grove from Sept. 15 to Sept. 18, 1862, stood the headquarters tent of General Robert E. Lee commanding the Confederate forces. Purchased, restored and marked by the West Virginia Division, United Daughters . . . — — Map (db m5640) HM |
| | During the War Between the States, 1861-1865 more than a thousand Confederates were imprisoned here of whom thirteen died.
D.B. Cartwright CO H 32 N.C.
James J. Cooper CO. F 17 N.C.
Col. T.J. Davidson 25 Miss
A. Diggs citizen, VA
Aquila . . . — — Map (db m59205) HM |
| | ”Lest we forget – lest we forget”
To the boys who wore the grey.
Erected by the Natchez Chapter No. 304
Daughters of the Confederacy
January 19, 1950
Commemorating those who left from
Natchez and Adams County
Mustered . . . — — Map (db m127098) WM |
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Front (East)
To the memory
of our
Confederate Dead.
1861-65.
Dead upon the field of glory
Hero fit for song and story.
Rear (West)
Bolivar County's
tribute to
southern heroism.
No nation . . . — — Map (db m90270) WM |
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Chickasaw County's tribute
to the sons who wore the gray
and were faithful to the cause.
Erected under auspices of
Okolona Chapter U.D.C. No. 117.
— — Map (db m102750) WM |
| | Citizens of the Dixie community built this structure 1/4 mile southeast of this site in the 1930s to serve as a cafeteria during the Depression era. The log cabin has also served as a meeting place, music hall and classroom. In 2003 the cabin was . . . — — Map (db m56534) HM |
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[Northeast Inscription]:
C.S.A.
To the Men and Women of
the Confederacy
1861-1865
[Southwest Inscription]:
When their county called
they held back nothing.
They cheerfully gave their
property and their lives.
. . . — — Map (db m39867) HM |
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"In Memory of our
Confederate Dead" — — Map (db m102155) WM |
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This boulder is erected by the Mississippi
College Rifles Chapter U. D. C.
in grateful memory of the 104 men who went
out from this college as Company E; 18th
Mississippi Regiment, April 23, 1861.
J. W. Welborn, Capt., Cuddie . . . — — Map (db m90391) HM |
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Front
To Our
Confederate Dead
1861-1865,
Left side
They fell devoted, but undying;
The very gale their names seem'd sighing:
The waters murmur'd of their name;
The woods were peopled . . . — — Map (db m102996) WM |
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Front
CSA
1861-1865
Leflore County's tribute
to her sons and daughters
of the Southern Confederacy.
Erected under the auspices
of the Varina Jefferson Davis
Chapter United Daughters
of the Confederacy.
Oct. 9, . . . — — Map (db m77355) WM |
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Our
Confederate Dead — — Map (db m90263) WM |
| | Constructed using funds raised by public subscription, this monument was dedicated in July 1912, to the memory of citizens of Neshoba County who served in the Civil War (1861-1865).
The statue on the monument was damaged by a windstorm in 1990 . . . — — Map (db m130057) HM WM |
| | To our
Confederate
Dead.
Names listed on monument
Wm. Franklin Wm. Cason James Goodwin
Ike Griffin Jasper Holmes Wm. Hurt
B.T. Tatum Franklin Rogers A. Rickey
Abe Ware J.O. Gavin Sam Connor
Joe Robbins J. Luttrell S. . . . — — Map (db m92669) WM |
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Front
C.S.A.
Our Heroes
1861 — 1865
[Bottom two tiers of lower base contain names and units of those who served]
Left
C.S.A.
[Long list of names down the entire shaft . . . — — Map (db m103000) WM |
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East face
To those who wore the grey, “In legend and lay our heroes in grey, shall forever live over again for us.”
“The epitaph of the soldier who falls with his country, is written in the hearts of those who love . . . — — Map (db m111507) WM |
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Front
1861–1865
Our Heroes
Rear
"For truth dies
not and by her
light they raise
the flag whose
starry folds have
never trailed;
and by the low
tents of the
deathless deed
they left the . . . — — Map (db m90268) WM |
| | Heroes of a lost cause rest in honor and in grateful memory May 1902 Confederate Heroes — — Map (db m144746) WM |
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To the everlasting memory of
those South Carolinians who
offered their lives upon the fields of
Vicksburg for the Southern Confederacy.
This monument is dedicated
by the South Carolina Division
United Daughters of the . . . — — Map (db m133948) HM WM |
| | Dedicated to the Tennessee Confederate Soldiers
Who served in Defense of Vicksburg
Reverse: Honor to those who never sought it; Fame to those who never wished it; Glory to those who never dreamed it; Immortality, for they earned it . . . — — Map (db m88191) WM |
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Front
Wayne County's
loving tribute
to the
noble men
who marched
neath the flag
of the
Stars and Bars
Left Side
Furl that banner
true' tis gory,
yet' tis wreathed
around with glory,
and' twill live . . . — — Map (db m80386) WM |
| | 1861 — 1865
As at Thermopylae, the greater
glory was to the vanquished
———
This monument is erected to
perpetuate the memory of the
noble courage, constancy and
self sacrificing devotion of the
women of . . . — — Map (db m77476) WM |
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[Title is text] — — Map (db m66375) WM |
| | Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia September 11, 1809 Resided in Chariton County Missouri 1831-1865 Speaker Of the House of Representatives Of Missouri General Assembly 1840-1844 Elected to Congress 1844 Participated in War with Mexico 1846-1848 . . . — — Map (db m131899) HM WM |
| | (Confederate Battle Flag)
1861 - 1865
C * S * A
Sacred to
The Memory of
The Soldiers of
THE CONFEDERACY — — Map (db m52507) HM |
| | (Front of Marker):
Price's Raid
Confederate General Sterling Price brought three mounted divisions from Arkansas into Missouri, September 19, 1864. Fighting several small battles he marched slowly north toward St. Louis, then struck . . . — — Map (db m20868) HM |
| | (Front):
In memory of our Confederate Dead
(Reverse):
To the brave soldiers who fell in
the Battle of Westport October 23, 1864.
——————————
Erected by
Kansas City . . . — — Map (db m26593) HM |
| | On Oct. 23, 1864, Confederate Gen. Shelby being forced back from Westport by Gen. Curtis and flanked on the east by Gen. Pleasonton formed a defensive line here behind stone fences running east and west to the state line. Jackman's Brigade of . . . — — Map (db m26692) HM |
| | In Memoriam
Our Confederate Dead
reverse of Memorial
1861 Gloria Victus 1865 — — Map (db m42858) HM |
| | 1861 – 1865
In memory of Texas Mounted Volunteers
Sibleys Brigade C.S.A.
J.S. Sutton
Lieut. Col. 7th Regt
S.A. Lockridge
Major 5th Regt
M. Heuvel
Capt. 4th Regt
And all unknown soldiers killed in
the Battle of Val Verde . . . — — Map (db m155660) WM |
| | (front): Victory Awaits You. (back): This monument honors and perpetuates the memory of the brave Texas citizen volunteers who offered their lives and fortunes in the defense of the Confederate states of America during the war for . . . — — Map (db m64055) HM WM |
| | In Memory of The Confederate Soldiers in the War Between the States who died in Elmira Prison and lie buried here erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy November 6, 1937 — — Map (db m32179) HM |
| | Then Captain, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A.
resided on this site
1841-1846
Presented by
New York Division
United Daughters of the Confederacy — — Map (db m107671) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m108739) HM |
| | To Commemorate With Grateful Love the Patriotism, Valor, and Devotion to Duty, of the Brave Soldiers of Alamance County.
(Back): "On Fame's Eternal Camping Ground, Their Silent Tents are Spread, and Glory Guards, with Solemn Round, . . . — — Map (db m28269) WM |
| | After the Civil War, womens associations throughout the South sought to gather the Confederate dead from battlefield burial sites and reinter the remains in proper cemeteries, while Confederate monuments were erected in courthouse squares and other . . . — — Map (db m76917) HM |
| | Erected and Dedicated by the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
and Friends
In loving memory of
Robert E. Lee
and to mark the route of the
Dixie Highway
“The shaft memorial and highway straight
attest his worth . . . — — Map (db m31578) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m32044) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m39854) HM |
| | In honor of the Confederate Heroes of Cleveland County
1861-1865
Lest We Forget — — Map (db m36238) HM |
| | This tablet marks the site of an important arsenal of the Confederate government. Authorized by the United States Congress, 1836; captured by North Carolina, April 22, 1861; transferred to the Confederate government, June 5, 1861; and destroyed by . . . — — Map (db m24327) HM |
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The Women of Cumberland
to their
Confederate Dead
May 20, 1861 - May 10, 1902
They died in defence of their
Rights
For they should fall the tears
of a nation's grief.
Lord God of Hosts be with us yet, . . . — — Map (db m31143) HM |
| | Erected by The Robert E. Lee Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy No. 324 Sept. 14, 1905. [ Back of Monument: ] Sleep sweetly in your humble graves. Sleep martyrs of a fallen cause. For lo, a marble column craves the pilgrim here to pause. . . . — — Map (db m34392) HM |
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[Front]
Erected by the
James B. Gordon Chapter
United Daughters of the Confederacy
October 1905
Winston-Salem, N.C.
[Back]
"Sleeping, but glorious,
Dead in Fame's portal,
Dead, but victorious,
Dead, but . . . — — Map (db m55494) HM |
| | In grateful memory of the brave men who sleep in Chicora Cemetery. They fought their last fight March 16, 1865 on this third line breastworks of Averasboro Battlefield. — — Map (db m34301) HM |
| | In memory of the North Carolina Troops that so valiantly resisted the advance of a superior Federal army at the Battle of Averasboro March 15-16, 1865 Fiftieth North Carolina Regiment Seventy Seventh North Carolina Regiment Tenth Battalion North . . . — — Map (db m15760) HM |
| | The United Daughters of the Confederacy in cooperation with the United States Forest Service planted this 125 acre forest as a living memorial to the 125,000 soldiers North Carolina provided the Confederacy. The 125,000 Red Spruce tree forest was . . . — — Map (db m123435) WM |
| | In Memory of
Albert Pike
Arkansas Poet of the Confederacy
Philosopher, Jurist, Philologist
Ethnologist, Statesman
Man of Letters
Born in Boston Mass, 1809
Died in Washington D.C. 1891
The greater part of his life was passed . . . — — Map (db m80982) HM |
| | Soldier, Planter,
Author, Statesman
Born June 3, 1808
Fairview Kentucky
Died December 6, 1889
New Orleans, Louisiana
"He was a Statesman with clean hands and pure heart who served his people faithfully and well from budding manhood to . . . — — Map (db m17800) HM |
| | In Loving Memory
Orren Randolph Smith
who on February 12, 1861, designed,
"The Stars and Bars"
the first official flag of the Confederacy adopted by the Confederate States Congress,
Montgomery, Alabama, March 4, 1861
Warren . . . — — Map (db m81024) HM |
| | In loving memory of
Robert E. Lee
and to mark the route of the
Dixie Highway
“The shaft memorial and highway straight
attest his worth — he cometh to his own.”
— . . . — — Map (db m13108) HM |
| | 1861-1865
Our Confederate Dead
C.S.A.
Hertford County Chapter
U.D.C. — — Map (db m60725) HM |
| | Dedicated by the Presbyterian church to the memory of the pioneers and to the soldiers of the Indian wars, the Revolution and the Confederacy who lie buried here.
Built by the pioneers, this wall was reconstructed by the national government and . . . — — Map (db m51803) HM |
| | This memorial marks the battlefield of Bentonville where, on March 19-21, 1865, General Joseph E. Johnston, with about 15,000 Confederate troops, principally from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi, checked . . . — — Map (db m5843) HM |
| | In memory of the North Carolina soldiers who fought and died so courageously and the civilians who suffered so grievously during the Battle of Bentonville. March 19-21, 1865. [ Back of Monument: ]Sleep, soldier, sleep, in thy rough earthen . . . — — Map (db m6067) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m153662) WM |
| | Near this spot, March 8, 1865, about 9 a.m., Hoke's Division, C.S.A. under the immediate command of Major-General Robert F. Hoke, broke the advanced columns of Cox's First Division, 23rd Corps, U.S.A. and captured principally from Upham's brigade . . . — — Map (db m155977) HM |
| | Building housed first the Pleasant Retreat Academy, chartered 1813. Later public library, museum. 1 block east. — — Map (db m44385) HM |
| | In loving memory of
Robert E. Lee
and to mark the route of the
Dixie Highway
“The shaft memorial and highway straight
attest his worth — he cometh to his own.” . . . — — Map (db m3267) HM |
| |
Erected and dedicated by the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
and friends
in loving memory of
Robert E. Lee
and to mark the route of the
Dixie Highway
"The shaft memorial and highway straight
attest his worth-he cometh to his . . . — — Map (db m129217) WM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m23695) HM |
| | The Last Meetings of the Confederate Cabinet were held in this building and the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston was Authorized from here on April 24th. 1865 — — Map (db m74963) HM |
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(West Face)
C.S.A.
1861 - 1865
(South Face)
The names of the Confederate Soldiers
from Nash county can be found in the
Memorial Volume of the various libraries
of the state and the Clerks Office of Nash . . . — — Map (db m46436) HM |
| | (south face)
In memory of those men
of the Confederate States Army
who for more than three years
manned the guns of Fort Fisher
under command of
Colonel William Lamb
Major General W.H.C. Whiting
and Major James Reilly. . . . — — Map (db m28640) HM |
| | (front)
1861-1865
To the soldiers of
the Confederacy
Confederates blend your recollections
Let memory weave its bright reflections
Let love revive lifes ashen embers
For love is life since love remembers
PRO ARIS ET . . . — — Map (db m28642) HM |
| | (west face)
George Davis
Senator and Attorney General
of the Confederate States of America
1820-1896
(south face)
Scholar
Patriot
Statesman
Christian
(east face)
His wisdom illustrated the . . . — — Map (db m28641) HM |
| |
To the Sons of the University
who entered the War of 1861-65
in answer to the call of their
country and whose lives
taught the lesson of
their great commander that
duty is the sublimest word
in the English language.
Erected . . . — — Map (db m90561) WM |
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