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CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY -

May 3rd and May 10th

Mark A. Simpson, Commander

Columbia, SC - MAY 3rd 2003

The South Carolina State Confederate Memorial Day Observance will commence May 3rd at 10:00 a.m. at the Elmwood Cemetery in Columbia, SC. Afterwards, we shall make our procession to the State House grounds for a final summation of the day’s events. Your participation and presence is an opportunity to display your pride and love for the South and our Southern ancestors who wore the gray.

The following Saturday, May 10th, the official date observing Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina, we shall gather at the Laurens County Square to place our wreaths and honor those who made sacrifice during the War for Southern Independence. Our service will begin at 10:00 a.m. with our guest speaker, Dr. Terry Rude sharing the memorial invocation. We will conclude our service with a brief walk to the Laurens City Cemetery where we shall place Confederate Battle

flags on the graves of each Confederate veteran buried there. Gentlemen, remember to wear a coat and tie, and invite your friends, neighbors and families to join us. Dress the children up in their “Sunday best” too. As they grow up it will leave an impression upon them of the importance of this solemn occasion. This is the Laurens County Memorial Day service, not just a McGowan Camp or Kershaw Chapter event.

Our Monuments

Inscriptions on Columbia Monument

Laurens County Confederate Memorial

The Columbia, SC Confederate Monument

On the North side:

On the South side:

This monument perpetuates the memory of those who true to the instincts of their birth, faithful to the teachings of their fathers, constant in their love for the state, died in the performance of their duty...who have glorified a fallen cause by the simple manhood of their lives, the patient endurance of suffering, and the heroism of death...and who in the dark hours of imprisonment, in the hopelessness of the hospital, in the short sharp agony of the field, found support and consolation in the belief that at home they would not be forgotten.

Let the stranger, who in future times read this inscription, recognize that these were men whom power could not corrupt, whom death could not terrify, whom defeat could not dishonor, and let their virtues plead for just judgment of the cause in which they perished...Let the South Carolinian of another generation remember that the state taught them how to live and how to die, and that from her broken fortunes she has preserved for her children the priceless treasures of her memories, teaching all who may claim the same birthright that truth, courage and patriotism endure forever.

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