- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- First Confederate Flag Raising in Georgia historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Webster County
Memorials--Georgia--Preston - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Webster County, Preston, 32.06599, -84.53742
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Webster County Courthouse, Preston
Text of marker: "FIRST CONFEDERATE FLAG RAISING IN GEORGIA. On this Courthouse lawn the first Confederate flag raising in Georgia took place March 31, 1861. Judge David B. Harrell of Webster County, Capt. James Pickett of Red Hill, Dr. Harvis Pickett of Weston, with their companies of soldiers, trained in Preston. Voting for Miss Mollie Josey as the most popular girl in town, the troops chose her to raise the flag. With much ceremony and enthusiasm a vast crowd witnessed the rites. At the end of the war Union troops stationed in Preston cut down and destroyed the flagpole. 152-3 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1955" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_first-confederate-flag-raising-in-georgia
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_first-confederate-flag-raising-in-georgia
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
-
