The Botetourt Artillery Obelisk
Item
- Title
- The Botetourt Artillery Obelisk
- Date
- 2019
- Description
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Color photographs of the Botetourt Artillery Obelisk, erected in 1902 to honor Confederate soldiers of the Civil War.
On one side, it reads,
"C. S. A.
Erected by the Botetourt Artillery Monument Association A. D. 1902. In commemoration of the deeds and services of the Buchanan Company. Organized Oct. 1959, as The Mountain Rifles Virginia Volunteers. Enlisted May 1861, in the Confederate States Army, for twelve months, as CS. I-N-26 Regiment Virginia Infantry. Reenlisted Nov. 1861, for the war, as Anderson's Battery Light Artillery. Renamed, March 1862, as the Botetourt Artillery.
1861-1865"
On additional sides of the monument, enscriptions read,
"To our loving, self sacrificing confederate women."
"To our comrades who have died since the war, and to the survivors of our company."
"To our officers and men who were killed in battle, and who died from wounds and disease, during the war." - Creator
- Daryl Reed Photography
- Format
- image/jpeg
- Subject
- Buchanan
- Town of Buchanan
- Civil War (1861-1865)
- Type
- Image
- Coverage
- Buchanan, Virginia
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Identifier
- The Botetourt Artillery 1861-1865
- Item sets
- Community
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