A monument dedicated to the memory of Confederate soldiers is now a century old. Bradley County’s next Civil War sesquicentennial events are planned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter. The 100th anniversary of the monument dedication and dedicating a grave marker of a soldier are events planned for June 11.
Staff Photo by Randall HIggins/Chattanooga Times Free PressCLEVELAND, Tenn.-His stony face has looked north for a century, a local landmark.
One hundred years ago, 50 years after the Civil War began, the United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter here dedicated the monument to the memory of Confederate soldiers.
On June 11, the chapter will hold a rededication of that monument, one of two events that day by the organization as part of Bradley County’s Civil War sesquicentennial events taking place the next four years.
The first event will be a 10 a.m. dedication of a grave marker for Sgt. John Alexander Kinser, Company B, 12th Georgia Cavalry CSA, said Robin Ramsey, chapter president. The grave is in the Union Grove Church of Christ Cemetery on Bates Pike.
Kinser’s grave did not have a Confederate marker, Ramsey said.