Tift County Confederate Memorial,

Fulwood Park,

Tifton, Tift County, Georgia, 2005.

c. Brian Brown

Confederate Memorial Detail,

Fullwood Park, Tifton, 2005.

c. Brian Brown

In the years following the Civil War, every county of the old Confederacy felt it an obligation to erect a monument honoring local boys who served the cause. Through the work of the Charlotte Carson Chapter # 1140 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Tift County's memorial to her confederate dead was erected on 26 April 1910. The monument was originally located downtown, but was later removed to Fulwood Park to circumvent traffic problems. Captain Owen Lemuel Chesnutt, a local Confederate hero, spoke at the original dedication of the monument.