Muscogee County GaArchives Photo Place.....Historic Marker:  Ladies Defender April 2006
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      Ladies Defender
 
 A muzzle loading cannon cast in Columbus in 1861
from brass contributed by the ladies of the city
from their domestic furnishing and utensils.
about a year into the Confedarate Artiltery, it was
captured by Federal troops at shiloh, Tenn. April
6, 1862 and was probably used by them against the 
Confederate forces. For a numberof years, Ladies
Defender was exhibited as a war trophy in an armory
in Chicago. It was there seen by R. DAN McEACHERY,
of Columbus, who wrote L.H. CHAPPELL, Captain of 
the Columbus Guards. The gun was later placed in 
the National Cemetery at Shiloh, Tenn. An effort 
was initated by Columbus to have the gun restored
to its home city. In 1904, by an act of Congress,
Ladies Defender was returned ti the city of Columbus.


   Georgia Historical Commission        1955.


Marker on the  10th Ave. side of the Couthouse.

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