Confederate Section (Atlanta, Georgia)

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Over 400 Confederate soldiers lie here, many were casualities of the nearby Battle of Ezra Church during the Atlanta Campaign.

The section is marked by two mortars and a sculpture of a soldier holding aloft several versions of the Confederate flag.

In August, 2011 local civil rights groups protested the presence of the flags which were noticed when a prominent civil rights leader was buried there earlier in the year.

The fact that the flags have flown here for decades in the largest cemetery in Atlanta without drawing any previous protest, was not mentioned by the protesters.
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Coordinates:   33°44'46"N   84°26'38"W
This article was last modified 13 years ago