Last updated: August 22, 2022
Place
Eternal Light Peace Memorial
![A white marble monument on a grey pedestal with storm clouds in the distance](/common/uploads/cropped_image/primary/267F2B65-B1A3-610C-7933A665C2B31031.jpg?width=1600&quality=90&mode=crop)
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At 1 p.m. Maj. Gen. Robert E. Rodes’s Confederates attacked from this hill, threatening Union forces on McPherson and Oak ridges. Seventy-five years later, over 1,800 Civil War veterans helped dedicate this memorial to “Peace Eternal in a Nation United.”
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At 1 p.m. Maj. Gen. Robert E. Rodes’s Confederates attacked from this hill, threatening Union forces on McPherson and Oak ridges. Seventy- five years later, over 1,800 Civil War veterans helped dedicate this memorial to “Peace Eternal in a Nation United.”