Confederate monuments

This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials dedicated to the memory of those who served and died in service to the Confederate States during the American Civil War.

Many Confederate monuments were erected in the former Confederate states and border states in the decades following the Civil War, in many instances by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Ladies Memorial Associations, and other memorial organizations.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Other Confederate monuments are located on Civil War battlefields.^[1]

New Confederate monuments continue to be proposed, and some have been built in recent years. In Arizona, a Sons of Confederate Veterans camp erected a Confederate monument in Phoenix in 1999^[6] and Confederate heritage groups dedicated a Confederate memorial in Sierra Vista in 2010.^[7] The Delaware Confederate Monument was unveiled in 2007 in Georgetown, Delaware.^[8] In South Carolina in 2010, the Sons of Confederate Veterans have sought to erect a monument to mark the 150th anniversary of the passage of the Ordinance of Secession in December 1860, but the cities of Charleston and North Charleston have refused them permission.^[9][10]

Many Confederate monuments are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[11]

Confederate monuments are listed here alphabetically by state, and by city within each state:

Alabama

• Confederate Memorial Monument, also known as the "Monument to Confederate Soldiers and Sailors", on the grounds of the Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama.^[12] Former CSA President Jefferson Davis laid the cornerstone in 1886, but it was not completed until 1898. Funding for the monument included $20,000 in the form of two grants from the state legislature, $10,000 contributed by the Ladies Memorial Association of Alabama, $6,755 from the Historical and Monumental Association of Alabama that was formed in 1865 to support the erection of this monument, and $5,000 from politicians.^[13]

Arizona

• Arizona Confederate Veterans Monument in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery in Phoenix, erected in 1999 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans^[6]
• Arizona Confederate Veterans Monument in Wesley Bolen Park, next to the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy^[6]
• Confederate Memorial in the Historical Soldiers Memorial Cemetery area of the Southern Arizona Veterans’ Cemetery in Sierra Vista. The monument was erected in 2010 to honor soldiers interred in that cemetery who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and later fought in Indian wars in Arizona as members of the U.S. Army.^[7]

Arkansas

Star City Confederate Memorial is located on the town square adjacent to Star City Commercial Historic District in Star City. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

• Arkadelphia Confederate Monument, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Arkansas
• Batesville Confederate Monument, Batesville, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Independence County, Arkansas
• Bentonville Confederate Monument, Bentonville, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Benton County, Arkansas
• Camden Confederate Monument, Camden, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Ouachita County, Arkansas
• Clarksville Confederate Monument, Clarksville, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Johnson County, Arkansas
• Conway Confederate Monument, Conway, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Faulkner County, Arkansas
• Dardanelle Confederate Monument, Dardanelle, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Yell County, Arkansas
• El Dorado Confederate Monument, El Dorado, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Union County, Arkansas
• Ft. Smith Confederate Monument, Ft. Smith, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Sebastian County, Arkansas
• Hot Springs Confederate Monument, Hot Springs, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Garland County, Arkansas
• Lake Village Confederate Monument, Lake Village, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Chicot County, Arkansas
• Monument to Confederate Women (or "Mother of the South"), Arkansas State Capitol grounds, Little Rock, Arkansas. Unviled in 1913. Statue depicts a mother and daughter saying good-bye to their 16-year-old son and brother who is leaving to join his father in the fighting.^[14]
• Lonoke Confederate Monument, Lonoke, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Lonoke County, Arkansas
• Monticello Confederate Monument, Monticello, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Drew County, Arkansas
• Jackson Guards Memorial, Newport, Arkansas, built in 1914. Monument consists of a statue of a single Confederate soldier and a roster of the men who served in the Jackson Guards and the slaves who supported them. The only Confederate monument in Arkansas built entirely with funds raised by private subscription.^[14]
• Pine Bluff Confederate Monument, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Arkansas
• Searcy Confederate Monument, Searcy, Arkansas. Erected in 1917 on the grounds of the White County courhouse. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in White County, Arkansas. Consists of a statue of a Confederate soldier.^[14]
• Star City Confederate Memorial, Star City, Arkansas. Erected in 1926 in the courthouse grounds, moved in 1943 and moved again to original position on town square in the 1990s. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Lincoln County, Arkansas. Consists of a statue of a Confederate soldier.^[14]
• Van Buren Confederate Monument, Van Buren, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Crawford County, Arkansas
• Washington Confederate Monument, Washington, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Hempstead County, Arkansas

Delaware

• Delaware Confederate Monument, Georgetown, Delaware, unveiled in 2007^[8]

Georgia

• Confederate Memorial Park in Albany.
• Augusta Confederate Monument in downtown Augusta; was commissioned by the Ladies Memorial Association in 1875 at a cost of $17,331.35. The monument, which stands approximately seventy-six feet tall, is made of granite and pure Italian marble. The base of the monument features four statues of notable Civil War generals Thomas R. R. Cobb, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and William Henry Talbot…. The Confederate Soldiers’ Monument was dedicated on October 31, 1878 before a crowd of ten thousand.^[15][16]
• Confederate Monument at St. James United Methodist Church in downtown Augusta, Georgia; located in the median of the 400 block of Greene Street. Inscriptions on three sides of the monument list the names 285 Augustans, including the 24 St. James members, who were killed in the war. The primary inscription on the 4th side reads: THESE MEN DIED IN DEFENSE OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.^[17]
• Confederate Monument, Forsyth Park, Savannah; completed in 1879^[3]
• Stone Mountain

Kentucky

• Confederate Monument in Augusta, Augusta, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument of Bardstown, Bardstown, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument of Bowling Green, Bowling Green, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument of Cadiz, Cadiz, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument at Crab Orchard, Crab Orchard, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument in Cynthiana, Cynthiana, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument in Danville, Danville, Kentucky
• Confederate Soldiers Martyrs Monument, Eminence, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument in Frankfort, Frankfort, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument in Georgetown, Georgetown, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument in Glasgow, Glascow, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument in Harrodsburg, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
• Confederate Memorial Fountain, Hopkinsville, Kentucky
• Latham Confederate Monument, Hopkinsville, Kentucky
• Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument, Horse Cave, Kentucky
• Confederate Martyrs Monument, Jeffersontown, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument in Lawrenceburg, Lawrenceburg, Kentucky
• John Hunt Morgan Memorial, Lexington, Kentucky
• Ladies' Confederate Memorial, Lexington, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument in Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
• Confederate Memorial in Mayfield, Mayfield, Kentucky
• Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield, Mayfield, Kentucky
• Martyrs Monument, Midway, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument of Morganfield, Morganfield, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument of Mt. Sterling, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument in Murray, Murray, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument in Owensboro, Owensboro, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument in Owingsville, Owingsville, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument in Paducah, Paducah, Kentucky
• Bourbon County Confederate Monument, Paris, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument in Perryville, Perryville, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument in Russellville, Russellville, Kentucky
• Confederate Mass Grave Monument, Somerset, Kentucky
• Confederate Monument in Versailles, Versailles, Kentucky

Mississippi

• Rankin County Confederate Monument, Brandon, Mississippi, listed on the NRHP in Rankin County, Mississippi
• Jones County Courthouse and Confederate Monument at Ellisville, Ellisville, Mississippi, listed on the NRHP in Jones County, Mississippi
• Confederate Memorial, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1910^[18]
• Attala County Courthouse and Confederate Monument, Kosciusko, Mississippi, listed on the NRHP in Attala County, Mississippi
• Clarke County Courthouse and Confederate Monument, Quitman, Mississippi, listed on the NRHP in Clarke County, Mississippi

Missouri

• Memorial to the Confederate Dead, Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri
• Confederate War Memorial, Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Montana

• Confederate Memorial Fountain, Helena, Montana

North Carolina

• Chapel Hill: Silent Sam, 1913.
• Concord: Confederate soldiers monument erected in 1892.^[19]
• Louisburg: Tribute to, "Our Confederate Dead". The monument is owned by the town of Louisburg, and in the center of Louisburg College.^[20]
• Oxford: Granville Gray, a Memorial to the Confederate Veterans of Granville County.
• Raleigh: North Carolina State Confederate Monument, Union Square
• Salisbury: Confederate Monument erected in 1909.^[21]
• Wilmington: Confederate Memorial

Pennsylvania

See also List of Confederate monuments at Gettysburg.^[22]

• Gettysburg Battlefield is the site of several Confederate monuments erected between 1884 and 1982 to honor the dead of specific units or states^[23]

Tennessee

• The grounds around the Rutherford County Courthouse contain a 1901 monument to the Confederacy and a 2011 memorial to those from Rutherford County who served in the Army of Tennessee.
• The Confederate Circle in Murfreesboro's Evergreen Cemetery is a memorial to approximately 2,000 Confederate soldiers whose remains were reinterred at the cemetery in 1891.
• Nashville's Mount Olivet Cemetery had a burial and memorial area established by a ladies group shortly after the Civil War which became known as Confederate Circle.
• Confederate Monument, Union City, Tennessee, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Obion County, Tennessee

Texas

• Confederate Soldiers Monument, Texas State Capitol, Austin, Texas; erected beginning 1903^[24]
• Confederate War Memorial, Dallas, Texas. Originally erected in City Park in 1897, but relocated to Pioneer Park Cemetery in 1961 due to highway construction.^[25]
• Confederate Soldiers' Monument, Denton, Texas: dedicated June 3, 1981, located on the south lawn of the Denton County Courthouse ^[26]

Virginia

• Confederate Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia; authorized in 1906 by United States Secretary of War William Howard Taft and unveiled in 1914^[27]
• Confederate Monument, Portsmouth, Virginia, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Portsmouth, Virginia
• The Memorial Granite Pile, Confederate Section, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia

West Virginia

• Confederate Memorial, Romney, West Virginia

See also

• Confederate Memorial Day
• Confederate Park (disambiguation)
• Lost Cause of the Confederacy
• United Confederate Veterans
• United Daughters of the Confederacy

References