Confederates Remembered in Comanche County, Texas

This colorful monument, erected in 2002 and dedicated on March 24, 2002, stands in front of the Comanche County Courthouse, Comanche, Texas. The recent date on the monument is a testimony to the fact that even as we are approaching the sesquicentennial of the War Between the States, the noble Confederate cause - the struggle for freedom from an oppressive centralized government - is not forgotten.

The inscription reads:

CONFEDERATE

 VETERANS

NOT FOR FAME OR REWARD, NOT FOR

PLACE OR RANK, NOT LURED BY

AMBITION OR GOADED BY NECESSITY,

BUT IN SIMPLE OBEDIENCE TO DUTY

AS THEY UNDERSTOOD IT, FOR FOUR

WEARY YEARS THESE BRAVE MEN

SUFFERED ALL, SACRIFICED ALL, DARED

ALL, AND FACING DEATH CARRIED THE

BANNERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.

THESE SOLDIERS OFFERED THEIR LIVES

ON THE ALTER OF THEIR

COUNTRY'S LIBERTY

DEDICATED BY

THE SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS

2ND TEXAS FRONTIER DISTRICT CAMP 1904

AND PATRIOTIC CITIZENS WHO

GENEROUSLY CONTRIBUTED

A.D. 2002

1861 - 1865