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Jefferson Davis Monument
Jefferson Davis Monument

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Memorial to Confederate president Jefferson Davis located one mile north of Irwinville, Ga., at the site where he was captured by Union troops. Irwinville is a small unincorporated community located 14 miles east of I-75 in Irwin County in south Georgia [see map].

The monument, sculpted by Laurence Tompkins, has the following inscriptions:

[front]

JEFFERSON DAVIS

PRESIDENT

OF THE

CONFEDERATE STATES

OF AMERICA

1861 - 1865
 
 

[reverse]
 
 

ON THIS SPOT

MAY 10, 1865

PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS

WAS MADE A

PRISONER OF WAR

BY FEDERAL TROOPS
 
 

ERECTED BY THE

STATE OF GEORGIA

EUGENE TALMADGE, GOVERNOR

IN THE YEAR 1935
 
 

SPONSORED BY MARY V. HENDERSON

CHAPTER AND THE GEORGIA DIVISION

OF THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE

CONFEDERACY
 
 

MRS. RALPH H. JOHNSON

CHAIRMAN MEMORIAL

COMMITTEE
 
 

MRS. T.W. REED

PRESIDENT GEORGIA

DIVISION
 
 

MRS. L. W. GREENE STATE CHM.

MARKING HISTORIC GA.

 
 
Photo: Ed Jackson
 
 

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