The Great Seal of the State of

<br><center>The Great Seal of the State of California<br> designed by<br> <b>Major Robert Selden Garnett,<br> U.S. Army,</b><br></center> and adopted by the Constitutional<br> Convention of 1849 at Monterey.<br> Commissioned a Brigadier General<br> in the Confederate States Army<br> He was killed in West Virginia in 1861, the first general officer to be killed in the <b>War Between The States</b>.<br><br><center> Dedicated by California Division<br> <b>United Daughters of the Confederacy</b><br></center> May 4, 1957