Join us as we honor a generation of southern patriots ...

… who true to the instincts of their birth,

faithful to the teachings of their fathers,

constant in their love for the state,

died in the performance of their duty.

. . . who have glorified a fallen cause by the simple manhood of their lives,

the patient endurance of suffering, and the heroism of death,

. . . and who in the dark hours of imprisonment,

in the hopelessness of the hospital,

in the short sharp agony of the field,

found support and consolation in the belief

that at home they would not be forgotten.