Existing comment:
The tablets on either side say the following:
This pavilion was erected by the Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, in grateful memory of the men who suffered and died in the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia from February 1864 to April 1865.
The prisoner's cry of thirst rang up to heaven. God heard, and with his thunder cleft the earth and poured his sweetest waters gushing here.
Erected 1901.
This fountain erected by the National Association of Union Ex-Prisoners of War. In memory of the 52,345 comrades who were confined here as prisoners of war and of the 13,900 comrades buried in the adjoining national cemetery. Dedicated Memorial Day, May thirtieth nineteen hundred and one.
James Atwell, National Commander
SM Long, Adj't Gen'l
JD Walker, Ch'n Ex Committee |