The Stubborn Persistence of Confederate Monuments A new report identifies some 1,500 memorials to the Civil War’s losing cause, from schools to … Jefferson Davis Statue. Monument of Confederate soldier, Ole Miss, Oxford, MS Students have to stare at this every day This photo shows a statue of a Confederate soldier in the heart of Ole Miss’s campus. In 2013, the Tennessee Wars Commission had a survey conducted of all war and war-related monuments in the public domain in the state of Tennessee.. Monuments threatened. #TakeEmDownNOLA. Liberty Monument (Crescent City White League) Map of All Confederate Monuments in New Orleans. The Monuments TEDN Zine Past Actions Updates STORE Contact The Monuments City Council’s 2015 List.
Giles County Confederate monument beside the 1836 courthouse, Pearisburg. A look at Confederate monuments removed across the U.S. Although Kentucky produced more Union troops than Confederate troops (75,000 compared to 50,000), most of the monuments included in the MPS were dedicated to Confederate forces. More than 1,500 Confederate monuments exist in public spaces and nearly 2,600 Confederate markers, museums, cemeteries, and battlefields speckle the South. Originally published August 21, 2018 at 10:10 am Updated August 21, 2018 at 11:27 am Back to story Restart gallery Last year, the SPLC reported that there are 718 Confederate monuments and statues, nearly 300 of which are in Georgia, Virginia, or … Below is a list of historic Confederate monuments erected in Southwest Virginia during this time, as well as some more recent battlefield and commemorative markers. Back to Top. Robert E. Lee Statue. Texas has more than 180 public symbols … Confederate memorials honor those who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War (1861-65), and are located across the state, in both large cities and small communities. This is a list of American Civil War monuments in Kentucky.A total of 61 of these were added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, as a result of a Multiple Property Submission (MPS).. Editor's note: This list has been updated with information on several monuments, schools and roads provided by readers. There are approximately 70 Confederate monuments P.G.T. Beauregard Statue. Efforts to honor Georgia's Civil War veterans began almost as soon as the war ended, but the great majority of Confederate monuments were dedicated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a …