One of over 200 historical markers on the island, this marker was erected to the soldiers and sailors of the Confederate States of America. The marker was erected in 1911 by The Veuve Jefferson Davis Chapter No. 17, United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Inscribed
“Erected to the Soldiers and Sailors of the Confederate States of America by The Veuve Jefferson Davis Chapter No. 17, United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1911 Galveston, Texas.
”There has never been an armed force which in purity of motives intensity of courage and heroism has equaled the Army and Navy of the Confederate
States of America 1861-65”
Mollie R. MacGill Rosenberg, President
Monument Committee
Mary Thompson Settle, Chairman
Ida Smith Austin
Jean Scrimgeour Morgan”
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