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Camera location | 39° 20′ 33.76″ N, 78° 45′ 56.39″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 39.342711; -78.765664 |
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Description Confederate Memorial Romney WV 2010 04 25 01.jpg |
English:
The
Confederate Memorial
(also referred to as the
First Confederate Memorial
) is a
memorial
in
Indian Mound Cemetery
in
Romney
,
West Virginia
. The memorial commemorates residents of
Hampshire County
who died during the
American Civil War
fighting for the
Confederate States of America
. The memorial was sponsored by the Confederate Memorial Association, which formally dedicated the monument on September 26, 1867. It is thought to be the first memorial structure erected to memorialize the Confederate dead in the
United States
. Romney also claims to have undertaken the first public decoration of Confederate graves on June 1, 1866.
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Author | Quercus montana | |||||||
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The Confederate Memorial was designed and installed by the Gaddes Brothers of Baltimore in 1867, therefore, it falls under the below license:
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