SCV Chapter Erects Monument at Roswell Church

publication date: Jul 7, 2008

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author/source: John Breech / STAFF

By John Breech / STAFF

Pictured front row L-R Anthony Chair, Howard Tefft, John Cobb, Ken Howell and Ray Berry. Back row L-R Jerry Maddox, Howard Bryant, Tom Crisman, Ross Glover, Doug Allen and Robert Blankenship.

Late last month, on a scorching hot Saturday morning, the local Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) chapter got together at the Roswell Presbyterian Church Cemetery to celebrate the arrival of a new monument.

The monument, a nine and a half foot obelisk, was erected in memory of Capt. Thomas Edward King, a Confederate soldier who helped organize the Roswell Guards in 1861. Now that the memorial is in place, the Roswell Mills SCV Camp, No. 1547, has a more formal ceremony scheduled for later this summer. The ceremonial dedication, being held August 23, will feature words from Mayor Jere Wood and two Capt. King descendants, Ft. McPherson’s Army Chaplain, Col. William Nisbet and former SCV commander Dr. Roland R. King.

The celebration will also include the 5th Regiment Confederate Band from Tuscaloosa, Ala. along with people in period costume. The land where the cemetery is now located actually played a small but fascinating role in the Civil War; it was once occupied by General William Tecumseh Sherman and his men prior to them traveling south and burning Atlanta.