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SEE ALSO-STEPHEN A. SWAILS HOUSE MEMORIAL MARKER BACK

DEDICATED TO WORLD WAR VETERANS

TO HONOR OCONEE COUNTY SOLDIERS WHO SERVED SO THAT WE COULD BE FREE.

THIS MARK III SIX POUND GUN NO. 27 WAS MANUFACTURED IN 1894 AND WEIGHED 608 POUNDS. THE U.S.S. MAINE CARRIED SEVEN OF THESE "RAPID FIRE" WEAPONS. THIS GUN CAME OFF THE BATTLESHIP MAINE. THE SINKING OF THE MAINE RESULTED IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 1898. ...

SEE ALSO-COLUMBIA'S SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR MEMORIAL CANNON BASE.

THE CANNON THAT WAS MOUNTED ON THIS GRANITE BASE OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR MONUMENT WAS REMOVED IN 1942 AND CONTRIBUTED AS SCRAP-IRON FOR USE IN WORLD WAR II.

SOUTH CAROLINA TROOPS IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, FIRST SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, SECOND SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, ANDERSON'S BATTERY HEAVY ARTILLERY AND SOUTH CAROLINA NAVAL MILITIA.

DEDICATED TO THE BRAVE MEN OF SOUTH CAROLINA WHO ALONG WITH OTHER PATRIOTS WILLINGLY SERVED THE NATION DURING THE MEXICAN WAR.

PIERCE MASON BUTLER COMMANDED THE PALMETTO REGIMENT DURING THE WAR WITH MEXICO WHERE HE WAS FATALLY WOUNDED.

SOUTH CAROLINA TO HER SONS OF THE PALMETTO REGIMENT WHO FELL IN THE WAR WITH MEXICO.

COLONEL WILLIAM BARNETT TRAVIS BORN NEAR SALUDA, SC GAVE HIS LIFE FOR LIBERTY AND FREEDOM AT THE ALAMO MARCH 6, 1836. COLONEL JAMES BONHAM NATIVE OF SALUDA COUNTY DIED WITH TRAVIS IN DEFENCE OF THE ALAMO. TRAVIS AND BONHAM WERE FRIENDS FROM BOYHOOD, COMRA ...

HE SAID OF THE ALAMO, "I SHALL NEVER SURRENDER OR RETREAT. THEN I CALL ON YOU IN THE NAME OF LIBERTY, OF PATRIOTISM AND EVERYTHING DEAR TO THE AMERICAN CHARACTER, TO COME TO OUR AID WITH ALL DISPATCH".

THE ONLY DOUBLE ENVELOPMENT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. THIS MEMORIAL COMMEMORATES THE PLACE WHERE DANIEL MORGAN AND HIS ARMY TURNED THE FLANKS OF THE BRITISH ARMY.

ETERNAL FLAME WAR MEMORIAL HONORING THE MEN FROM BOWMAN WHO SERVED IN WORLD WAR I, WORLD WAR II AND VIETNAM WAR.