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Unknown Alabama Confederate Soldiers Monument
Location Brantley, Alabama, United States
Completion date2017

The Unknown Alabama Confederate Soldiers Monument is an outdoor stone marker and memorial installed 3 miles north of Brantley, Alabama, in a privately owned Confederate Veterans Memorial Park. [1] [2] The monument reads:

Unknown AL Soldier
C.S.A.
"Mother, I have
been found.
I am home."

"It sits among existing monuments, replica cannons and tall flagpoles flying Confederate and other flags." [1] More than 500 people attended the monument's dedication in 2017. [3] Another source gives the number as 200. [1]

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References

  1. ^ a b c Sheets, Connor (September 27, 2017). "New Confederate memorial unveiled in Alabama". Birmingham News.
  2. ^ "New Confederate monument unveiled in Alabama". New York Post. Associated Press. August 27, 2017.
  3. ^ Johnson, Alex (August 28, 2017). "A new Confederate monument goes up in Alabama". NBC News.

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