Civil War memorials
Union-Confederate commemoration sites
Civil War memorials are monuments, statues, and other commemorations honoring participants in the American Civil War (1861–1865).
Most were erected decades after the conflict, particularly during the early twentieth century.
Confederate memorials have become contested symbols—some view them as heritage, others as celebrations of slavery and white supremacy.
Many have been removed or relocated since 2015: The city voted to take down its Civil War memorials.
- RichmondVirginia's seat of government
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
- statueThree-dimensional sculpted likeness
- obeliskTapering stone monument
- GettysburgPennsylvania battle site
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- Civil War veteransConfederate veterans, encampments, veterans benefits, disability benefits
- Virginia HistoryJamestown, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Colonial Williamsburg, Richmond
Civil War memorialsdamnatio memoriae
Posthumous erasure from records
statue toppling · iconoclasm · forgetting · historical revisionism · peace gardens
Civil War memorialsLiberty Bell
Cracked American independence symbol
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