Summary: | View of Tablet monument on University of Alabama campus
This is a photograph of a plaque to commemorate The University of Alabama's Confederate soldiers.
1861-1865
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA GAVE TO THE
CONFEDERACY-7 GENERAL OFFICERS, 25 COLONELS,
14 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS, 21 MAJORS, 125
CAPTAINS, 273 STAFF AND OTHER COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS, 66 NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND
294 PRIVATE SOLDIERS. RECOGNIZING OBEDIENCE
TO STATE, THEY LOYALLY AND UNCOMPLAININGLY
MET THE CALL OF DUTY, IN NUMBERLESS INSTANCES
SEALING THEIR DEVOTION BY THEIR LIFE BLOOD.
AND ON APRIL 3, 1865, THE CADET CORPS,
COMPOSED WHOLLY OF BOYS, WENT BRAVELY
FORTH TO REPEL A VETERAN FEDERAL
INVADING FOE, OF MANY TIMES THEIR NUMBER,
IN A VAIN EFFORT TO SAVE THEIR ALMA MATER,
ITS BUILDINGS, LIBRARY, AND LABORATORIES
FROM DESTRUCTION BY FIRE, WHICH IT MET AT THE
HANDS OF THE ENEMY ON THE DAY FOLLOWING.
TO COMMEMORATE THIS HEROIC RECORD THIS
MEMORIAL STONE IS ERECTED BY THE ALABAMA
DIVISION, UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
MAY 13, 1914
For contact and permanent location information regarding this retired plaque, contact: Planroom, Campus Support Services, Building 1003, planroom@fa.ua.edu. The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries.
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