Charleston360 #59

September 12, 2014  •  Leave a Comment

#59

Magnolia Cemetery.

Established in 1850, it sits along the banks of the Cooper River, resting on 92 acres of a former rice plantation.  

This is the Confederate Monument and graves of fallen soldiers.  The inscription on the monument reads,

"In memory of the sons of Charleston, who fell around her walls, who sleep on many battlefields in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and North Carolina, and who lie in distant graves around their Northern prisons.  They died for their State."


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