Amite County Confederate Memorial, Oldest in the state of Mississippi! Liberty, Mississippi! [March 18, 2023, RJ] This historic Confederate monument, raised in 1871 by grieving families and neighbors on land donated by the local Masonic Lodge with its cornerstone laid as early as 1866, stands as Mississippi’s oldest Confederate memorial and one of the nation’s earliest tributes to the fallen. Bearing the names of 279 Amite County sons who perished defending states’ rights, constitutional self-go