One hundred years ago local dignitaries, women’s groups and citizens listened as Col. Robert E. Lee Jr. - the general's son - delivered the dedication address for the new Monument to Confederate Soldiers on the Courthouse Green at Hanover. Bronze plaques were unveiled listing the names of 1,096 soldiers known at the time to have served the Confederacy. Over the intervening century, careful research has revealed 306 additional Hanoverians who are eligible to be memorialized. Today, efforts are being made to add these names to the historic monument.
Call to Action!
A fundraising campaign is underway to add four bronze plaques to the Monument to Confederate Soldiers to recognize over 300 Hanoverians who served but were not originally memorialized. Time is of the essence! A re-dedication of the monument is planned for its centennial anniversary on August 23, 2014.

A campaign to raise $15,000 to place four new bronze plaques on the Monument to Confederate Soldiers has been undertaken by the Hanover County Sesquicentennial Committee, the Historic Courthouse Area Advisory Committee and the Hanover County Historical Society.

Your timely support is needed! Please consider giving generously to this worthy project.

Your tax-deductible donation may be made to:
“Confederate Monument,”
Hanover County Historical Society, Inc.,
P. O. Box 91, Hanover, VA 23069-0091.

For more information, contact the Society by email: hanoverhistory@hotmail.com.
Please reference “Confederate Monument” in the subject line.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of these publications will be donated to the bronze plaque project:

Hanover County Confederates (c2013) by Mike Tyler is an expanded history of the 1,096 soldiers originally listed on the monument, as well as 305 additional soldiers who are eligible to be memorialized.

This book is available for $25.00 at Amazon.com.
A reprint of the Souvenir of the Exercises of the Hanover Monument to Confederate Soldiers, August 27, 1914 is available from the Hanover County Historical Society for $5.00 + $1.75 S&H.

(Virginia residents, please add 5.3% sales tax.) See address above, or for more information visit our Publications page.
Hanover County Sesquicentennial Committee
General Order No. 4
All Are Invited!!
August 23, 2014
Hanover Confederate Soldiers
Monument Rededication
Historic Courthouse Green
13182 Hanover Courthouse Road
Hanover, VA 23069
2:00 PM…Sharp

The Capt. Wm. Latané Camp #1690 SCV, Mechanicsville will perform the color honors and rifle salute. The Knibbs Battery supported by the Brig. Gen. W. C. Wickham SCV Camp # 2250’s Smith’s Battery will perform the honorary artillery salute. Wreathes honoring our Confederate ancestor soldiers and ladies will be presented (Please contact Art Taylor with interest in wreath presentation). Greetings will be offered by ranking organization officials of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sons of Confederate Veterans and Military Order of Stars and Bars and others as so desired. A keynote address will be presented. The plaques honoring the additional 306 soldiers will be presented and soldiers honored. The Tredegar Brass Band will present period music. Mixed in with the music will be renditions several traditional songs of the South. Light refreshments will be served.

Please join us!!! Look forward to seeing you ALL there!

Contact: Arthur H. Taylor, III, Hanover County Sesquicentennial Committee and Past Commander, Capt. Wm. Latané Camp #1690, SCV (804-449-6702, tee1776@hotmail.com).


Rendering of one of four 15”x60” plaques to be placed on the monument base (click on image to enlarge).