The names of 350 Confederate soldiers buried as “Unknowns” in the Confederate Cemetery here will now be forever emblazoned on memorial walls facing their graves as a result of the work of a local historian.
Brown Park now has four granite walls commemorating 1,150 Confederate soldiers buried in the adjacent Marietta Confederate Cemetery after two new memorial walls were installed Monday.
The new walls were needed when a local historian, Brad Quinlin, and Betty Hunter, president of the Marietta Confederate Cemetery Foundation, worked together to discover the names of 350 soldiers known to be buried in the cemetery.
Those 350 were then added to the 800 names already displayed on the two granite walls that have been in the park since August 2013.
Four walls face the cemetery estimated to hold 3,000 Confederate soldiers, but Hunter said she is proud to have identified more than one-third of those “buried heroes” now.
The search for the names of soldiers who died and were buried in Marietta lasted two years, Hunter said.
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There must be a special place in heaven that awaits those two. They are to be commended.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, amazing their effort.
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