Confederate Monuments at Antietam
The State of Georgia monument on the Antietam battlefield is on Cornfield Avenue. (Cornfield Avenue West tour map)
Georgia erected identical statues honoring her Confederate veterans on the battlefields of Gettysburg and Antietam during the centennial of the Civil War in 1961.
State of Georgia monument at Antietam
About the monument
Sculptor Harry Sellers created the monument, and Marietta Memorials of Atlanta fabricated it. The monument is composed of Georgia blue granite from Elberton. It stands 15 1/2 feet high, with the state seal of Georgia on the front and back. It was presented to the National Park Service by Georgia Governor Samuel Ernest Vandiveer Jr. and dedicated on September 20, 1961.
Georgia at Antietam
Georgia sent 40 infantry regiments, 7 artillery batteries and one cavalry legion to Antietam. Major General James Longstreet, the second ranking officer in the Army of Northern Virginia, was from Georgia.
From the monument
Georgia
Georgia Confederate
Soldiers
We sleep here in obedience to law;
When duty called, we came,
When country called, we died.
Location of the State of Georgia monument
The monument is north of Sharpsburg on Cornfield Avenue. It is on the south side of the avenue about 800 feet east of Dunker Church Road. (39°28’51.4″N 77°44’45.3″W)