Help Secure a Place of Honor for the Confederate Veterans Monument - Jeffersonville, GA The Confederate Monument to Twiggs County Confederate Veterans (and all Confederate Veterans) is currently located in an inappropriate location next to a fried chicken eatery. This monument should be relocated to a place of honor on public property, preferably the new County courthouse lawn in Jeffersonville (across the railroad tracks from its current location). See the recent photographs below as well as the names of Twiggs veterans and a message from Russ Huffman. Mr. Russ Huffman and Mr. Tommy Fountain (both Twiggs residents) are seeking signatures from Twiggs voters on a petition to the Twiggs County Commissioners. The petition can be signed at NAPA Auto Parts in Jeffersonville. Huffman is also raising money from private donors to pay for the relocation and refurbishing expenses. Huffman has secured the services of Mr. Allen Veal, a monument specialist, to relocate and repair the monument. The Twiggs County Commissioners were presented with petitions at their regular meeting Tuesday, August 5th, 2003 at 7:00pm in Jeffersonville. For a variety of reasons, they have not taken action on this request yet. If you support this worthy effort, please contact Russ Huffman or if you're a Twiggs County resident, please contact your commissioners and urge them to support relocating the Twiggs monument to a place of honor on the county courthouse grounds. If you want to financially support the relocation expenses or offer other assistance, please contact Russ Huffman at 478-945-3031. Twiggs County
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This fine monument needs
to
be in a
place of honor. Won't you help? Please contact the email and phone number above if you would like to help get this monument relocated to a place of honor. The men whose names are listed below have earned our respect; they left their families, farms and hearthsides to defend their homes against invasion and by federal law they are entitled to the full honors and privleges of any American veteran. |
Company E, 26th GA
Infantry Company G,
48th GA Infantry |
The names and note from Russ Huffman below appeared as a full-page ad in the Twiggs County newspaper, The Twiggs Times New Era, on May 6, 2004.
Confederate Veterans of Twiggs County |
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Adkins Calvin |
Belcher Robert L. |
Clance John |
Davis Lewis |
Frasure C. E. |
Holland James B. |
Lanier Avery |
McMillan Milton |
Pate Isaac |
Smith John |
Welch Elisha ![]() |
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You probably recognize most of the last names on this list above. Look through the Jeffersonville phonebook and you'll see many of them. These are names of soldiers who served with the Confederate States of America during the War for Southern Independence. These men are honored on the monument that now stands across the railroad tracks from the Twiggs County Courthouse. These brave men, many of whom are your ancestors, marched off to war leaving their wives, children, families, and possessions. Some were gone from home for four years or more. Some returned maimed or crippled for the rest of their life. Some never made it back to Georgia soil. They suffered and died to protect their homeland and to preserve a free and independent republic, a republic of sovereign states that would control their own destiny, a republic where an all-powerful, central, federal government did not exist. These men were much like our present-day soldiers who have left all behind to go to Iraq and defend our home and principles. The politics of their government are inconsequential. They were called to duty and they answered. The Monument to Confederate Soldiers honors the men, the individuals that did their duty and marched off to war. It does not represent any government or ideology. These men, like all veterans, deserve to be honored. The monument has been in the same location since 1911. At that time there were no businesses encroaching on the site, but over time, the monument's location has become unsuitable. Vandals have done their work on the statue, and weeds grow in the cracks between the stones. Just across the tracks is a newly- renovated Courthouse with ample grounds to relocate the memorial to its rightful place of honor. All it takes is a "go-ahead" from the Twiggs County Commissioners. Not one penny of tax money will be used. The relocation cost will be borne solely by contributions. Don't your ancestors deserve better than this? Call your County Commissioners (numbers above) and demand that the monument be allowed on the Courthouse grounds. Sign a petition to that effect. Show up at the Commissioners office in mass when the next meeting concerning the monument is held. Help beautify downtown Jeffersonville by making right this disgrace we have endured for so long. Please sign the petition at Napa Auto Parts in Jeffersonville or call Russ Huffman at 945-3031. You may also call Russ if you see an ancestor on this list and would like more information concerning his service record or if you want information on joining the Sons of Confederate Veterans. ---Russ Huffman |
Russ Huffman is a Twiggs County resident and member of:
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