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Confederate Monument at Crab Orchard

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on the north side, and a lengthier passage on the south side reading "Here off duty til the last reveille, rest the Southern soldiers, few in number, who were slain in this and in adjoining counties during the War of Secession. They fell among strangers, unknown, unfriended, yet not unhonored for
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strangers' hands have gathered their ashes here and placed this shaft above them. That constancy, valor, sacrifice of self, though displaced in fruitless enterprise, may not be unremembered". The monument was deliberately carved to appear draped as by a curtain.
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On July 17, 1997, the Confederate Monument in Crab Orchard was one of sixty-one different monuments related to the
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In June 2007 the monument was again dedicated in a ceremony that included then Kentucky Governor
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Confederate States of America monuments and memorials in Kentucky
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Crab Orchard Cemetery. 0.5 mi E of jct. of KY 39 and KY 643,
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The soldiers buried around the monument were from Kentucky,
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the only other monument in Kentucky older than the two.
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Confederate Monument at Crab Orchard is located in Kentucky
Confederate Monument at Crab Orchard is located in the United States
Crab Orchard, Kentucky
MPS
97000682

Lincoln County, Kentucky
Crab Orchard, Kentucky
Battle of Wildcat Mountain
Georgia
Tennessee
Texas
obelisk
marble
Civil War in Kentucky
National Register of Historic Places
Civil War Monuments of Kentucky
Multiple Property Submission
Confederate Monument in Cynthiana
Cynthiana, Kentucky
32nd Indiana Monument
Ernie Fletcher
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service


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