Historical Marker

Immortal Six Hundred

Tybee Island · Chatham County · Erected 2012

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Honors roughly 600 captured Confederate officers held at Union-controlled Fort Pulaski in the winter of 1864-65 on reduced rations, a retaliatory ordeal they endured rather than swear allegiance to the Union.

About this site

Immortal Six Hundred is a historical marker in Tybee Island, Chatham County, erected in 2012. It is one of 339 historical markers documented in Chatham County, among 480 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 32.0275, -80.8917 near Tybee Island. The nearest cataloged historic site is Fort Pulaski Prisoner Burial Ground (cemetery), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Burial Sites of Immortal 600, Freedom Ahead!, and History of Emancipation:.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

📍 32.0275, -80.8917 · Tybee Island, Chatham County

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