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The Lion of Atlanta - memorial to unknown Confederate
dead. Inspired by the Lion of Lucerne, the monument weighs 30,000 pounds
and is carved from the largest block of marble ever quarried in America
when it was dedicated in 1894. The figure represents a lion that has
received its death wound, and in his agony he is grasping and attempting
to draw towards him the battle flag of the Confederacy
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Note that confederate gravestones come to a point. Yankee graves are
rounded. Some say the Daughters of the Confederacy did this so that no
one could sit on the gravestone of a Confederate |