MONROE COUNTY, GA - Confederate Monument

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The Marching Confederate Soldier 
by Isabell Smith Buzzett
(September 1982)
Just north of Macon in Forsyth, Monore County, on the Court
House Square, a granite pedestal topped with a bronze
Confederate soldier stands.  The pedestal is of teh best grade
of Georgia granite. It is unadorned save for one worked,
"CONFEDERATE", and a plaque:

Georgia Volunteers, Quitman Guards Co K 1st Reg; Conf Vol Co A
14th Reg, Monroe Vol Co H 32 reg; Rutland Vol Co B 46th Reg,
McCowan's Guards Co D 46 reg; Quitman Guards 53 Reg.

The Forsythe Chapter United Daughters of teh Confederacy (now
Cabaniss Chapter) and the Ladies Memorial Association
sponsored the Confederate Monument Association in 1906.

They secured the sculptor Frederick Hibbard whose ancestors
fought for the Confederacy. He called the model, "A Marching
Confederate Soldier." (In some records it was referred to as
"foot soldier".

The cost was three thousand hard earned dollars. It was
unveiled June 26, 1908 and presented to the surviving soldiers
of Monore County, Georgia.  A huge crowd attended the
dedication of the monument.  Having completed its mission, the
Monument Association was dissolved.

The Marching Confederate Soldier of bronze atop the pedestal
has youth, vitality and motion. In the halflight as one glance
upward, the bronze figure seems to march. His head in the
clouds is held in the pride if his cause. His broad chest has
strength and the muscles on his legs seem to ripple.

The Marching Soldier is a symbol of the continuing forward
movement of our Southland--firmly rooted in the granite of our
glorious past.