Eliza
by Amy Curtis
Title
Eliza
Artist
Amy Curtis
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Statue of Eliza Wilhelmina Theus in historic Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia
The tomb of Thomas N. Theus and his wife Eliza Wilhelmina at the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. Thomas Theus, as the tomb indicates, was a Confederate soldier who survived the war. He buried his wife in 1895 and joined her eight years later in 1903. Theus lived in Savannah and served in the Chatham Artillery – a four gun unit during the Civil War under the command of Captain John F. Wheaton whose most notable battle was the repulse of a Federal invasion at the Battle of Olustee, Florida in July of 1864. The unit surrendered in Greensboro, North Carolina on April 26, 1865.
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December 13th, 2023
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