Confederate Sentinel

Erected in 1880 by the Ladies Monumental Association of Frederick County, this memorial honors soldiers of the Confederate Army who fell in the battles of Antietam, Monocacy, and elsewhere and are buried here. It pays tribute to the brave and to unknown soldiers whose bodies rest here, expressing that although their names cannot be inscribed upon tablets of stone, they may be read on a purer and unchangeable record. It calls on the soldier to rest from warfare and sleep a sleep undisturbed by danger, waking, or dreams of battle, and declares that their praises will be sung in some yet unmoulded tongue far on in summers yet unseen.

Frederick, Maryland · United States