- Joined
- Jan 12, 2016
- Location
- South Carolina
While headed to and from Broxton Bridge Plantation for this weekend's reenactment, we passed through the little town of Bamberg, SC and saw this monument on the corner of the courthouse lawn. I took a few shots on the way back home late in the afternoon. I think the beautiful thing about this monument is its simplicity.
Bamberg County Confederate Monument Historical Marker
(A historical marker located in Bamberg in Bamberg County, South Carolina.)
www.hmdb.org
Under the guidance of chapter president Mrs. Frank G. Bamberg, the members untiringly took up the work of acquiring the funds -- $3,000 donated by 400 subscribers. The marble figure of a Confederate private at parade rest was carved in Italy. It stands on an eighteen-foot shaft of South Carolina granite, which rests on an eleven-foot pedestal. The women of the U.D.C. left the original eastern side, now the northeastern side, blank. They intended to place a bronze tablet on the east side engraved with the names of the Confederate soldiers who were from the part of South Carolina that became Bamberg County in 1897. This goal was never met.
The cornerstone was laid on Confederate Memorial Day, May 10, 1911...Bamberg's businesses and schools were closed for the exercises. Six hundred people, including two hundred school children, attended. Rev. W.h. Rodgers, pastor of the Bamberg Methodist Church, gave the opening prayer. The master of ceremonies was Dr. James Benjamin Black, a physician and state senator who had begun the process that resulted in the formation of Bamberg County...The thirty-five foot monument was unveiled on October 26, 1911. The monument was moved to its present location in 1950.
Bringing the