Civil War Veteran Sign Dedication In Guilford Center
Published: November 11th, 2019

Civil War veteran sign dedication in Guilford Center (Submitted photo)

A historical sign was installed near the Guilford Center Cemetery and dedicated to Walter Baldwin who was conscripted into the Confederate Army while living in Georgia.

He was taken prisoner and held at a prison camp were his father retrieved him and brought him back home to Guilford, where he died in 1865 of illness a month later.

The sign grant was applied for through the Guilford Historical Society's Cemetery Committee under the direction of Tina and Dale Utter. Above volunteers dress in period uniforms to celebrate the installation. (Submitted photo)



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