Southern Horror #96 (Georgia, 1 of 43) by Kris Graves
The Monument to the Women of the Sixties was erected in 1913 in Thomson, Georgia by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to honor the women who kept the Southern home front during the American Civil War.
While this was going on, I was commissioned by National Geographic to photograph memorials, monuments, and sites of the antebellum South. My friend Marshall Scheuttle and I drove approximately 4000 miles across eight southern states making photographs of every site we could find. Some have been removed, most remain in place.