Wisconsin Monument - Marietta, GA
Posted by: YoSam.
N 33° 57.065 W 084° 32.519
16S E 727148 N 3759454
Dedicated to the 405 Wisconsinites whose remains are at rest in this cemetery
Waymark Code: WMM6Z6
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 08/02/2014
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County of monument: Cobb County
Location of monument: Washington Ave, Marietta National Cemetery, Marietta
Artist: Stotzer & Company, fabricator
Date dedicated: May 31, 1925
Monument Text:
(front top):
WISCONSIN
(front): Dedicated to the Memory of Wisconsin soldiers who gave their lives in defense of the Union in 1861 - 1865
Four Hundred and five
Belong to the following regiments
are buried here
1st Cavalry
5th Battery Light Artillery
6th Battery Light Artillery
10th Battery Light Artillery
12th Battery Light Artillery
1st Infantry 3rd Infantry
10th Infantry 12th Infantry
14th Infantry 15th Infantry
16th Infantry 17th Infantry
18th Infantry 21st Infantry
22nd Infantry 24th Infantry
25th Infantry 26th Infantry
31st Infantry 32nd Infantry
(rear):
"I am the resurrection
And the life. He that
Believeth in Me, though
He were dead yet shall
He live."
Proper Description: "A granite stele with a carved figure of a Wisconsin badger on top, and an inscription below honoring soldiers from Wisconsin who died during in Georgia during the Civil War."
~ Smithsonian American Art Museum
Remarks: "This monument erected by the Wisconsin legislature honors soldiers from Wisconsin who died during in Georgia during the Civil War"
~ Smithsonian American Art Museum