The inscription on the base reads: In Memory of the Irish Jasper Greens — 1861–1865 — Requiescant in Pace. Rest in peace.
They were Irish Catholic immigrants, men who had crossed an ocean to start over, who found themselves in a new country already dividing against itself. The Irish Jasper Greens — named for Revolutionary War hero Sergeant William Jasper, killed in the 1779 siege of this very city — were among Savannah’s most storied militia companies, formed in 1842, and among the first to answer the Confederate call in 1861.
This image was made on a foggy morning in 2025, the cemetery quiet, the soldier on his pedestal standing as he has stood for over a century — rifle at rest, fog at his back, the stones of his comrades scattered in the middle distance.
Whatever brought these men here, whatever they believed or fought for, they are long past all of it now. The fog makes no distinctions.
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