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Confederate Monument at Crab Orchard

Crab Orchard, United States of America

Confederate Monument at Crab Orchard

The Confederate Monument in Crab Orchard in Lincoln County, Kentucky, near Crab Orchard, Kentucky, commemorates the fallen Confederate soldiers of nearby states. Many of those buried here died at the Battle of Wildcat Mountain. The soldiers buried around the monument were from Kentucky, Georgia, Ten

nessee, and Texas. Twenty-one in total, they were reinterred atop the Crab Orchard Hill in 1871. The monument itself is a 10 feet (3.0 m) tall column made of white marble. The inscriptions mention the home states of the soldiers buried around the monument, with the motto "Constantes Esque Ad Mortem, Animas Perjecere." on the north side, and a lengthier passage on the south side reading "Here, off duty till the last reveille, rest the Southern soldiers, few in number, who were slain in this and in the adjoining counties, during the War of Secession. They fell among strangers, unknown, unfriended, yet not unhonered [sic]; for strangers' hands have gathered their ashes here and placed this shaft above them, that constancy, valor, sacrifice of self, though displayed in fruitless enterprise, may not be unremembered." The monument was deliberately carved to appear draped by a Confederate flag...

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