Coffee County Confederate Monument

(East face)

In Memory Of

Our

Confederate Soldiers

(North face)

1861 - 1865

[Crossed Flags]

(West face)

Erected by the

Robert E. Lee

Chapter, U.D.C.

Oct. 1911

Marker is on South Peterson Avenue near West Ward Street (Georgia Road 32W), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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326 West Pender Street

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Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps

U.S.A.

Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps.

Brig. Gen. George Greene, Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

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