Riverside Memorial Project

CSS TALLAHSSEE MARINE GUARD
Company B

L to R Private
Private Jim Darby, Private David Brinkley, Powder Monkey Huston Creel, Sergeant Jamey Creel, & Private James Harrell 

 On Saturday, September 22, 2007, members of the Theophilus West Camp 1346, Sons of Confederate Veterans, members of William Henry Milton Chapter No. 1039, United Daughters of the Confederacy, members of the Florida Society, Order of the Confederate Rose, area re-enactors, and a gun crew from the CSS Tallahassee Marine Guard dedicated a new memorial, at Riverside Cemetery, to soldiers who served in Jackson County during the War Between the States. The ceremony recalled, in part, the Battle of Marianna where local men and boys from throughout the county tried to hold back attacking Union troops.  See photos here.

Inscription on Monument at Unknown Confederate Soldiers Grave site in Riverside Cemetery in Marianna, Florida:

 East Inscription

 BE THEY NOT FORGOTTEN;
THESE FALLEN UNKNOWN HEROES, WHO,
BY THEIR STANCE HELPED PRESERVE THE DEFENSE OF MARIANNA

SEPTEMBER 27, 1864

 West Inscription
CSA
1861 - 1865

HONOR THEM YOUNG AND OLD
ALL THOSE HEROES LYING HERE BENEATH THE SOD
THEIR BRAVERY NE’ER DISMISSED, OF THEM WHO
                                                       GAVE THEIR ALL                                                    

 DEO VINDICE
“GOD WILL VINDICATE” 
AS PROTECTOR

 
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Confederate Participant
The Battle of Marianna, Florida
September 27, 1864

O. M. WATSON was a member of Norwood's "Cradle to Grave" Volunteers. He was at the Battle of Marianna, but managed to escape capture during the battle. [WEST FLORIDA WAR]

THE UNKNOWNS:

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