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Inscriptions of poetry are featured on each side of the square base. The inscriptions are in all capital letters. The poetry is unattributed. Aside from poetic verse, there is also an inscription attributing the local chapter of the United
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General Sherman ordered his troops to stack arms during the siege of Brandon....'" The monument is an example of many similar monuments erected in
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