Civil War monuments
Union-Confederate conflict statues
Civil War monuments are public memorials commemorating the American Civil War (1861–1865), typically statues, obelisks, or plaques honoring soldiers or military leaders.
Most were erected decades after the war ended, with Confederate monuments concentrated in the American South often installed during the Jim Crow era and Civil Rights movement.
These monuments have become flashpoints in debates about historical memory, racism, and public space, with many removed or relocated since 2015.
The city council voted to relocate the Civil War monument to a museum.
- Confederate StatesSecessionist southern republic
- Confederate flagSecession-era Southern banner
- Emancipation ProclamationExecutive order freeing Confederate slaves
- Gettysburg Address1863 battlefield dedication speech
- Union ArmyNorthern military in 1860s
Symbolism · protest march · melted down · Stone Mountain · silent sentinels · bronze statues · Reconstruction Era · Lost Cause · Robert E. Lee · town square · battlefield park · pedestal · Jim Crow · public memory · heritage
- Civil War battlesBattle of Gettysburg, Antietam, Appomattox, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville
- Union soldiersUnion infantry, federal troops, enlisted men, volunteers, privates
Civil War monumentsWorld War II memorials
Tributes to 1939-1945 conflict
Holocaust memorials · Lincoln Memorial · Iwo Jima Memorial · Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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