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White Point Garden, Confederate Defenders of Charleston
Overlooking Charleston Harbor with Fort Sumter in the distance stands one of the city’s most controversial points of interest, a seventeen-foot-tall statue dedicated to the Confederate Defenders of Charleston. Erected in 1932, the statue is dedicated…

The Confederate Women of Arkansas Monument, sometimes called the "Mother of the South" memorial, created by Swiss sculptor J. Otto Schweizer, stands (as of 2020) a notation made as many Confederate monuments across the nation are being removed
The statue is made of bronze, marble and concrete. It is standing on a tall pedestal on the lawn of the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock. The statue depicts a mother, her daughter, young son saying goodbye to her older son who is joining his…

Silent Sam Unveiling, Postcard,1913.
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…

Appomattox (Statue)
The Appomattox (statue) was a bronze monument honoring Confederate soldiers who had died while fighting during the American Civil War. The name "Appomattox" refers to the Battle of Appomattox Court House, which resulted in the surrender of Robert E.…

Jefferson Davis Monument
The Jefferson Davis Monument in Fairview, Kentucky memorializes the birthplace of the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. According to accounts during a 1907 reunion of the Orphan Brigade, the largest military unit to be…

United Confederate Veterans Memorial
The United Confederate Veterans Memorial was a Confederate memorial located in Lake View Cemetery in Seattle, Washington. The memorial was erected by May Avery Wilkins, the president of the Robert E Lee Chapter of the United Daughters of the…

Durham County Courthouse
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…

Dixie High School
Dixie High School is located in St. George Utah was created in 1911 by Mormon pioneers and is still in operation with roughly 1,200 students attending. The school's mascot is the Flyers, represented by a World War I biplane pilot.

Dixie High…

"The Lookout" Statue
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…

Confederate Memorial at Arlington, South Side
Located on the western edge of Arlington National Cemetery inside the Jackson Circle stands the Confederate Memorial. Reaching to a height of 32 feet above the ground, it looms large over the 482 graves of Confederate soldiers and officers that…
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