This 10 foot Corinthian column erected in honor of some 400 mainly women who were wrongfully charged with treason by German Sherman as part of is Atlanta Campaign in July of 1864. Then adding insult to injuries they were shipped up North along with their children and most were never heard from again. The top of the column is deliberately shattered at the top to symbolize the families and lives torn apart from this tragedy.
The monument sits at the tail end of Sloan Park in downtown Roswell.
Them monument base has words carved into them on three of the four sides
The first side says
Honoring the memory of the four hundred women children and men mill workers of Roswell who were charged with treason and deported by train to the north by invading Federal forces July 10, 1864
The second side says
To the men of Roswell and Cobb County who served the confederate states of America. The Roswell Battalion
Local Defense Troops
Co. E. Cobbs legion Cavalry Battalion
Roswell Troopers
Co H. 7th Georgia Volunteer Infantry
Roswell Guards
The third side says
Roswell Manufacturing Company
Incorporated December 1839 by Roswell King.
Cotton Mills Expanded by Barrington King
Ivy Woolen Mill
Established 1857 by James and Thomas King
Suppliers of Cloth and Yarn
To the Confederate Government 1861-1864
Seized by Federal Cavalry July 5, 1864
While Ivy Mill under the flag of France
Mills burned July 6, 1864
Cotton Mill rebuilt and operated under various owners until destroyed by fire 1926. read more