Oconee County Confederate Monument

The monument honors the Confederate soldiers of Oconee County, saying they gave their lives for states rights, for the protection of their homes, and in defense of their women and children. It presents them as gallant men whose courage was without precedent, whose fortitude was without parallel, and whose highest virtues were loyalty, truth, and civic virtue, to which they consecrated their lives and fortunes. It invokes the image of the dead in a solemn bivouac on fame's eternal camping ground, declares that Confederate service numbered six hundred thousand men against two million, six hundred thousand in Federal service, and says the land they struggled to save will not forget its warriors who sleep in many graves.

Walhalla, South Carolina · United States