The Augusta Confederate Monument also known as the Richmond County Confederate Monument is located in the median of the 700 block of Broad Street in downtown Augusta, Georgia. This Confederate monument soars seventy-six feet into the sky, set on a granite base topped by a shaft of Carrara marble. The monument was commissioned by the Ladies Memorial Association of Augusta as a memorial in 1875. It was designed by the architectural firm of VanGruder and Young of Philadelphia, built by the Markwalter firm of Augusta, carved by Antonio Fontana and dedicated on October 32, 1878.
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| - The Augusta Confederate Monument also known as the Richmond County Confederate Monument is located in the median of the 700 block of Broad Street in downtown Augusta, Georgia. This Confederate monument soars seventy-six feet into the sky, set on a granite base topped by a shaft of Carrara marble. The monument was commissioned by the Ladies Memorial Association of Augusta as a memorial in 1875. It was designed by the architectural firm of VanGruder and Young of Philadelphia, built by the Markwalter firm of Augusta, carved by Antonio Fontana and dedicated on October 32, 1878.
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| - The Augusta Confederate Monument also known as the Richmond County Confederate Monument is located in the median of the 700 block of Broad Street in downtown Augusta, Georgia. This Confederate monument soars seventy-six feet into the sky, set on a granite base topped by a shaft of Carrara marble. The monument was commissioned by the Ladies Memorial Association of Augusta as a memorial in 1875. It was designed by the architectural firm of VanGruder and Young of Philadelphia, built by the Markwalter firm of Augusta, carved by Antonio Fontana and dedicated on October 32, 1878. Around the base of the monument are the life size statues of four Southern generals in the American Civil War: Thomas R. R. Cobb, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and William H. T. Walker. Interestingly, the enlisted Confederate soldier depicted above the generals is the civil war hero Sergeant Berry Benson. Known, among other things, as never having surrendered his weapon at Appomattox with General Lee. An inscription at the base reads, “In honor of the men of Richmond County who died in the cause of the Confederate States.”
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