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The Confederate Monument, or “Silent Sam,” is a bronze statue created by John A. Wilson and sponsored by the United Daughters of Confederacy (UDC) and University of North Carolina (UNC) alumni, who paid for one-third and two-thirds of the total cost…

     The Confederate Solders’ Monument on the grounds of the Caldwell County courthouse in Princeton, Kentucky, is a small-town monument commemorating the average soldier, one of many like it throughout the south. Confederate statues for the everyman…

The Confederacy lost the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, after a disastrous charge on the third day of fighting. The battle ended Robert E. Lee’s second invasion of the North, and ensured that his army could not take the offensive for the rest…

An iron gate with the words Confederate Soldiers at the top is the entrance to a once Prisoner of War Camp turned cemetery. The Federal Government during the Civil War turned Johnson's Island into a prisoner of war camp, which held thousands of…

The Confederate Soldiers Monument was erected on May 10, 1924 in Durham, North Carolina in front of the Durham County Courthouse. Funding for this monument was done by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (Julian S. Carr chapter), the United…

“At Ready,” also popularly referred to as “Johnny Reb,” is a Confederate soldier monument in front of the Albemarle County Courthouse in Charlottesville, Virginia. The statue was unveiled in 1909 by the City of Charlottesville and the United…

The Confederate Dead memorial in the cemetery at the University of Virginia is a large stone statue of a Confederate soldier designed by Caspar Buberl in 1893 as part of the movement to replace the temporary wooden markers with more permanent ones…

Camp Chase is a Confederate Cemetery created on farmland outside of Columbus, Ohio. It began as a training facility preparing Ohio volunteers for the battlefronts of the Civil War. The camp extended its operations to include thousands of Confederate…

Erected in May 13th, 1879
Obelisk designed by Muldoon, Walker and Cobb
Designed by Carlo Nicoli
Inscription written by William Henry Trescot
Funded by the South Carolina Monument Association

Right outside of the South Carolina State House,…

A young soldier stands with a C.S.A. flag on his left side, holding it with both hands. The flag curls behind him, covering his back. He wears a broad-brimmed hat and an open shirt. The youth is meant to represent youthful courage and enthusiasm, as…