HONOR TO THE BRAVE
870 LIE HERE.
RECORDED BY NAME, COMPANY & REGIMENT
FROM
VIRGINIA 305, N. CAROLINA 176, S. CAROLINA 59
GEORGIA 208, ALABAMA 49, FLORIDA 8
MISSISSIPPI 11, LOUISIANA 19, TENNESSEE 12,
ARKANSAS 20, TEXAS 3
AND 207
RECORDED BY NAME ONLY.
AS UNKNOWN, YET WELL KNOWN,
AROUND THIS SHAFT
ARE GATHERED ALSO THE REMAINS OF
ABOUT 700 CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS
NOT RECORDED BY NAME.
FROM FIELDS ALLEGHANY, McDOWELL,
CROSS KEYS, PORT REPUBLIC, PIEDMONT, &C.”
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VIRGINIA FORGETS NOT ANY WHO DIED IN HER DEFENCE.
IN MEMORY
OF THE
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS
FROM
STAUNTON AND AUGUSTA
COUNTY
1861 1865
NOT FOR FAME OR REWARD, NOT FOR PLACE
OR RANK, NOT LURED BY AMBITION, OR GOADED
BY NECESSITY, BUT IN SIMPLE OBEDIENCE TO
DUTY, AS THEY UNDERSTOOD IT, THESE MEN SUF
FERED ALL, SACRIFICED ALL, DARED ALL & DIED!
NO STATELY ABBEY WILL COVER THEIR RE-
MAINS. THEIR DUST WILL REPOSE BENEATH NO
FRETTED OR FRESCOED ROOF. NO COSTLY BRONZE
WILL EVER BLAZON THEIR NAMES FOR POSTERITY
TO HONOR -- BUT THE POTOMAC, AND THE RAPPA-
HANOCK, THE JAMES AND THE CHICKAHOMINY,
THE CUMBERLAND AND THE TENNESSEE, THE
MISSISSIPPI, AND THE RIO GRANDE AS THEY RUN
THEIR LONG RACE FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE
SEA, WILL SING OF THEIR PROWESS FOREVERMORE.