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Updated
05/31/2010
Adopt-A-Monument
Members of the North Carolina Society are active in the adoption and
preservation of monuments and historic sites in their hometown, their state, and
across the nation. The Garnett-Pettigrew Chapter participates in the
Adopt-A-Monument program sponsored by the National Park Service in Gettysburg,
PA.
Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA
The Garnett-Pettigrew Chapter of Greensboro has
adopted the brigade and headquarters markers for Iverson's Brigade,
Pettigrew's Brigade, Scales' Brigade, Ramseur's
Brigade,
Davis' Brigade, A. P. Hill's Headquarters, Carter's Battalion and the
monument of the 11th Mississippi Regiment on the battlefield of the
Gettysburg National Military Park. They have also adopted the state
monuments of Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia.
The efforts are
part of the park's innovative "Adopt-A-Monument" program. Members travel to
Gettysburg twice each year in the spring and the fall to maintain the grounds
around these monuments erected to the brave citizen soldiers of North Carolina
and the other Confederate states who comprised these famous brigades.
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Ramseur's Brigade Marker - North
Confederate Avenue
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Iverson's Brigade Marker - North
Confederate Avenue
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Carter's Battalion Marker -
North Confederate Avenue
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Scales's Brigade Marker - West
Confederate Avenue
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Davis's Brigade Marker - West
Confederate Avenue
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11th Mississippi
Infantry Regiment Monument - West Confederate Avenue -
Dedicated May 27, 2000
Inscription of the 11th Mississippi's advance marker at Brian's
barn:
July 3, 1863
The 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment,
with its ranks growing thinner at every step, advanced with the colors
to the stone wall near the Brian barn.
The regiment was here “subjected to a most
galling fire of musketry and artillery that so reduced the already
thinned ranks that any further effort to carry the position was
hopeless, and there was nothing left but to retire."
Report of Brig. Gen. Joseph
R. Davis
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3rd Corps (A. P. Hill)
Headquarters Marker - West Confederate Avenue
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Pettigrew's Brigade
Marker - West Confederate Avenue
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Tennessee State Monument -
West Confederate Avenue - Dedicated July 3, 1982
Tennessee
Valor and courage were virtues of he three
Tennessee regiments.
The Volunteer State
This memorial is dedicated to the memory of
the men of the 1st (PACS), 7th and 14th Tennessee Infantry Regimens,
Archer's Brigade, Heth's Division, Third Army Corps, Army of Northern
Virginia. They Fought and died for their convictions performing their
duty as they understood it. |
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Mississippi State
Monument -
West Confederate Avenue - Dedicated October 19, 1973
Mississippi. July 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 1863.
On this ground our brave sires fought for
their righteous cause. In glory they sleep who gave to it their lives:
to valor they gave new dimensions of courage, to duty its noblest
fulfillment, to posterity the sacred heritage of honor. |
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Georgia State Monument -
West Confederate Avenue - Dedicated September 21, 1961
Georgia Confederate Soldiers.
We sleep here in obedience to
law. When duty called, we came. When country called, we died. |
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