List of Confederate monuments and memorials in Georgia

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This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials in Georgia that were established as public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War. Part of the commemoration of the American Civil War, these symbols include monuments and statues, flags, holidays and other observances, and the names of schools, roads, parks, bridges, counties, cities, lakes, dams, military bases, and other public works. [note 1]

This list does not include items which are largely historic in nature such as historic markers or battlefield parks if they were not established to honor the Confederacy. Nor does it include figures connected with the origins of the Civil War or white supremacy, but not with the Confederacy.

Georgia has a statute making it difficult to remove Confederate monuments because it is unlawful to damage, relocate or remove any memorials honoring any military personnel of the state or USA or the Confederate States of America. [2]

As of 24 June 2020, there are at least 201 public spaces with Confederate monuments in Georgia. [3]

State capitol

John Brown Gordon statue in front of the Georgia State Capitol John Brown Gordon statue and Georgia State Capitol.jpg
John Brown Gordon statue in front of the Georgia State Capitol

State flag

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Flag of Georgia since 2003

The current (2024) Georgia flag is based on the first national flag of the Confederacy, which was nicknamed the "Stars and Bars". [7]

State holiday

Stone Mountain (state monument)

Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Carving (1923-72) Stone Mountain, the carving, and the Train.jpeg
Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Carving (1923–72)

Stone Mountain is owned by the state of Georgia. When Georgia purchased the site, "it was designated as a memorial to the Confederacy". [9] The Stone Mountain Park officially opened on April 14, 1965 – 100 years to the day after Lincoln's assassination. [10] Site of the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan (the Second Clan), on the top of the mountain, with cross burning, in 1915. Stone Mountain was the location of an annual Labor Day cross-burning ceremony for the next 50 years. [11] In 2019 it is the most-visited attraction in the state of Georgia. [12]

Buildings

Monuments

Courthouse monuments

Other public monuments

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Henry Wirz memorial, Andersonville
Crisp County Confederate Monument, Cordele Confederate Monument, Cordele.JPG
Crisp County Confederate Monument, Cordele
Alexander H. Stephens statue, A. H. Stephens Historic Park, Crawfordville Stephens Monument.JPG
Alexander H. Stephens statue, A. H. Stephens Historic Park, Crawfordville
Joseph E. Johnston, Dalton Joseph E Johnston monument in Dalton GA.jpg
Joseph E. Johnston, Dalton
Unveiling of "Dutchy", Elberton Confederate Monument "Dutchy", Elberton, Georgia.jpg
Unveiling of "Dutchy", Elberton
Monument to the Great Locomotive Chase, Ringgold General (Locomotive) Monument, Ringgold (Catoosa County, Georgia).JPG
Monument to the Great Locomotive Chase, Ringgold
The Gate City Guard was "a Confederate-era city militia". [4] The streetlamp was originally located at the corner of Alabama and Whitehall (now Peachtree) Streets, and was moved several times prior to its installation in Underground Atlanta. Redevelopment of that area led the city to want to remove it. Since it was valued at less than $500, the Georgia law controlling historic monuments did not apply. [4] The Atlanta History Center purchased the streetlamp for $10. [47]
Francis S. Bartow in Savannah, Georgia Conferate memorial-bust of Francis S Bartow in Forsyth Park in Savannah, Georgia.JPG
Francis S. Bartow in Savannah, Georgia

Private monuments

Inhabited places

Parks

Public works

Roads

Jefferson Davis Highway marker in Irwin County Jefferson Davis Highway marker, Irwin County, GA, US.jpg
Jefferson Davis Highway marker in Irwin County

Schools

City symbols

Photos

See also

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Hunt Morgan Memorial</span> United States historic place

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Confederate Soldier Monument in Caldwell</span> United States historic place

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Confederate monuments and memorials in the United States include public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War. Many monuments and memorials have been or will be removed under great controversy. Part of the commemoration of the American Civil War, these symbols include monuments and statues, flags, holidays and other observances, and the names of schools, roads, parks, bridges, buildings, counties, cities, lakes, dams, military bases, and other public structures. In a December 2018 special report, Smithsonian Magazine stated, "over the past ten years, taxpayers have directed at least $40 million to Confederate monuments—statues, homes, parks, museums, libraries, and cemeteries—and to Confederate heritage organizations."

<i>Appomattox</i> (statue) Bronze statue in Virginia, United States

Appomattox is a bronze statue commemorating soldiers from Alexandria, Virginia, who had died while fighting for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. The memorial was located in the center of the intersection of South Washington Street and Prince Street in the Old Town neighborhood of Alexandria.

The Limestone County Confederate Soldiers Memorial is an outdoor marble Confederate memorial installed outside the Limestone County Courthouse in Athens, Alabama, in the United States. It was erected in 1909, and depicts a soldier standing at rest with the stock of his musket resting on the base.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials</span> Ongoing development in the United States

There are more than 160 monuments and memorials to the Confederate States of America and associated figures that have been removed from public spaces in the United States, all but five of which have been since 2015. Some have been removed by state and local governments; others have been torn down by protestors.

<i>Tuskegee Confederate Monument</i>

The Tuskegee Confederate Monument, also known as the Macon County Confederate Memorial and Tuskegee Confederate Memorial, is an outdoor Confederate memorial in Tuskegee, Alabama, in the United States. It was erected in 1906 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to commemorate the Confederate soldiers from Macon County, Alabama.

<i>Dutchy</i> (statue)

"Dutchy" is the nickname of a Confederate monument in Elberton, Georgia. Unveiled in 1898, the statue was criticized for its poor design, and in 1900 the statue was toppled and buried by townspeople. The statue was later unearthed in 1982 and currently is on display in a local museum.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peace Monument (Atlanta)</span> Public monument in Atlanta, Georgia, United States

The Peace Monument is a public monument in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Designed by Allen George Newman, the monument is located in Piedmont Park and was erected in 1911 by members of the Old Guard of the Gate City Guard, a Confederate-era militia, as a show of national unity in the years following the American Civil War. The monument has been the subject of controversy recently, with some calling for its removal as a symbol of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Confederate Monument (Greenville, South Carolina)</span>

The Confederate Monument is a shaft of granite topped by a marble statue of a soldier—the oldest public sculpture in Greenville—that memorializes the Confederate dead of the American Civil War from Greenville County, South Carolina. The monument is flanked by two period Parrott rifles manufactured at the West Point Foundry.

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Notes

  1. "In an effort to assist the efforts of local communities to re-examine these symbols, the SPLC launched a study to catalog them. For the final tally, the researchers excluded nearly 2,600 markers, battlefields, museums, cemeteries and other places or symbols that are largely historical in nature." [1]
  2. Fitzgerald was formed in 1895 for veterans of the war, from the North and the South. Streets running north–south on the west side of the city were named after Confederate ships and generals, whereas the ones on the east side were named after Union ships and generals. See Fitzgerald, Georgia#History.

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