Confederate Dead and Hospitals (Monroe County)

Monroe County · dedicated 1956 · At the intersection of Newton Memorial Road and South Lee Street in Forsyth.

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.

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