Confederate Monuments at Antietam
The State of Georgia monument on the Antietam battlefield is on Cornfield Avenue. (Cornfield Avenue West tour map) It was dedicated on September 20, 1961.
State of Georgia monument at Antietam
Georgia erected identical statues honoring her Confederate veterans on the battlefields of Gettysburg and Antietam during the centennial of the Civil War in 1961. They were dedicated in September of that year. Sculptor Harry Sellers created the monuments. Marietta Memorials fabricated them. The monuments are composed of Georgia blue granite standing 15 1/2 feet high, with the state seal of Georgia on the front and back.
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 also 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 at Antietam
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)