Monument Monday, May 20,2019

[DaveBrt]

Confederate Soldier on Courthouse grounds at Laurel, Miss.

Header: Confederate Soldiers
Lower left: Erected by the Stephen Dill Lee Chap. U. D. C. Laurel, Miss. March 1912
Lower Right: In Memory of Our Fallen Heroes

Photo taken May, 2019

 

[James N.]

I'll add the Confederate Monument at Raymond, Mississippi, another battle site of the May, 1863, Vicksburg Campaign. The antebellum courthouse and a church across the side street were both used as hospitals following the battle.

 

[donna]

That courthouse is a beautiful building.

 

[dlavin]

From the Lee County Courthouse in Bishopville SC.

 

[James N.]

Vicksburg placed their Confederate Monument within the section of the City Cemetery along Graveyard Road where soldiers from the siege and campaign had been interred; the individual grave markers were added long after the fact, not until the 1990's.

 

[dlavin]

Sorry user fail...i must have duplicated photos and they posted sideways...you have permission to delete the duplicates and correct the view

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

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Confederate Soldier on Courthouse grounds at Laurel, Miss.

Header: Confederate Soldiers
Lower left: Erected by the Stephen Dill Lee Chap. U. D. C.

March 1912
Lower Right: In Memory of Our Fallen Heroes

Photo taken May, 2019

Great image !

The Laurel Courthouse Confederate Monument, is only one of a handful that 'stand out' in Mississippi.

Most Confederate monuments from that era were massed produced . . . and look much the same throughout the South.

 

[JOHN42768]

Some great photos, thanks

 

[bdtex]

East Feliciana Parish Courthouse, Clinton, Louisiana. Built in 1840. Photo taken 4/5/2019.

 

[Vicksburger]

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Confederate Soldier on Courthouse grounds at Laurel, Miss.

Header: Confederate Soldiers
Lower left: Erected by the Stephen Dill Lee Chap. U. D. C. Laurel, Miss. March 1912
Lower Right: In Memory of Our Fallen Heroes

Photo taken May, 2019

What a beautiful work of art!

 

[rebel brit]

Parker's Crossroads.

 

[dlavin]

I should mention too that Lee County SC is named for Robert E Lee. says the sign outside the courthouse.

 

[James N.]

I should mention too that Lee County SC is named for Robert E Lee. says the sign outside the courthouse.

What a surprise! (I guess it could've been for Charles Lee - but highly unlikely.)

 

[redbob]

Parker's Crossroads.
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The steel cannon that are noted on the monument are the relatively rare steel Singer-Nimick 3" guns ( called the "Bull Pups") which were captured, given to Morton and the only place that I know of where examples of these guns are on display are is on the Chicamagua Battlefield.

 

[rebel brit]

The steel cannon that are noted on the monument are the relatively rare Singer Nimick 3" guns which were captured, given to Morton and the only place that I know of where these guns still on display are is on the Chicamagua Battlefield.

@redbob any idea what part of the battlefield they are located.

 

[redbob]

@redbob any idea what part of the battlefield they are located.

In the past you had to get directions from a Park Ranger as they are off the beaten path and sometimes you get a Ranger that doesn't know they exist at all. While Morton was Tennessee's Secretary of State, he was able to obtain his "Bull Pups" from the Federal Government and he personally over saw their placement on the battlefield. There is also another survivor of the six cast at Gettysburg. Photos by "To the Sound of the Gun" Blog