- Confederate Dead and Hospitals
State Historical Marker
- Located in the Forsyth Cemetery off Newton Memorial
Dr. and S. Lee St., Forsyth, Ga.
(Text)
- CONFEDERATE DEAD AND
HOSPITALS
Here sleep "Known but to God,"
299 unknown Confederate soldiers and one known. Most of these
men, veterans of many hard fought battles, died in the several
Confederate hospitals located in this town. Here is also buried
a gallant Confederate girl, Honora Sweney, who died while serving
as a nurse in one of the Confederate hospitals. The hospitals
located in Forsyth were the Hardee, the Clayton, the Female College
and several temporary ones.
- 102-6 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1956
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