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"Lest We Forget": The Confederate Monument and the Southern Townscape
- Southeastern Geographer
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Volume 23, Number 2, November 1983
- pp. 107-121
- 10.1353/sgo.1983.0008
- Article
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If the South has a symbol, it is the statue of the Confederate soldier which stands in the county seat. Hands resting on the barrel of his grounded rifle, knapsack and blanket roll on his back, he stares in stony silence to the north whence came the invading Yankee armies. (1)