On Saturday, October 28, nine members of Camp 91, Thomson Guards met to wash and clean our second Confederate monument. It is located on Main Street at the railroad depot. It is “In Memory of the Women of the Sixties and the Confederate Soldiers erected by The Veterans, The U.D.C. and The Woman’s Club of Thomson.” It depicts a woman in a soldier’s jacket holding the furled flag. Most of the names of the soldiers from the three companies that mustered in from Columbia (now McDuffie) County are etched into the sides. The before photo has our members standing in front of the monument. An amazing amount of dirt and grime came off the monument. IF NOT US, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
Donna Faulkner Barron and husband Ron were our special guests sharing the Thomson Guards' booth at the Oliver Hardy Festival. Her book, The Man Who Carved Stone Mountain, tells the incredible story of how her father was the man in charge for the magnificent Confederate Memorial carving on Stone Mountain.
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