| Confederate Monument | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Used for those deceased | |
| Established | 1908 |
| Location | 31°48′27″N85°58′18″W / 31.8076°N 85.9718°W Coordinates: 31°48′27″N85°58′18″W / 31.8076°N 85.9718°W near Troy, Alabama |
The Confederate Monument, also known as the "Comrades" Confederate Monument, is a Confederate memorial in Troy, Alabama, in the United States. The monument was installed in 1908 by the Pike Monumental Association, United Confederate Veterans, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy of Pike County, Alabama. [1]
Troy is a city in Pike County, Alabama, United States. The city is the county seat of Pike County. It was formally incorporated on February 4, 1843.
Confederate Memorial Day is a cultural holiday observed in several Southern U.S. states on various dates since the end of the Civil War to remember the estimated 258,000 Confederate soldiers who have died in military service.
The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign that represented the end of large-scale fighting west of the coastal states in the American Civil War. It was fought at Nashville, Tennessee, on December 15–16, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Lieutenant General John Bell Hood and Union Major General George H. Thomas. In one of the largest victories achieved by the Union Army during the war, Thomas attacked and routed Hood's army, largely destroying it as an effective fighting force.
William Calvin Oates was a colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, the 29th Governor of Alabama from 1894 to 1896, and a brigadier general in the U.S. Army during the Spanish–American War.
Confederate Memorial Park is an Alabama State Park located in Mountain Creek, in rural Chilton County, Alabama, United States. Its address is 437 County Road 63, Marbury, Alabama 36051. It is sometimes found with the same address in Verbena, Alabama 36091.
Mountain Creek is an unincorporated community in southeastern Chilton County, Alabama, United States.
Brigadier General Albert Pike is a public artwork in Washington, D.C. honoring Albert Pike (1809–1891), a poet, lawyer, soldier, and influential figure in the Scottish Rite of freemasonry. The memorial is sited near the corner of 3rd and D Streets NW in the Judiciary Square neighborhood. The memorial's two bronze figures were sculpted by Gaetano Trentanove, an Italian-American artist responsible for another Washington, D.C. sculptural landmark, the Daniel Webster Memorial. The dedication ceremony in 1901 was attended by thousands of Masons who marched in a celebratory parade.
A Ladies' Memorial Association (LMA) is a type of organization for women that sprang up all over the American South in the years after the American Civil War. Typically, these were organizations by and for women, whose goal was to raise monuments in Confederate soldiers honor. Their immediate goal, of providing decent burial for soldiers, was joined with the desire to commemorate the sacrifices of Southerners and to propagate the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. Between 1865 and 1900, these associations were a formidable force in Southern culture, establishing cemeteries and raising large monuments often in very conspicuous places, and helped unite white Southerners in an ideology at once therapeutic and political.
Gerald H. Allen is a Republican lawmaker in the Alabama Senate. He previously served in the Alabama House of Representatives.
The Confederate Monument is a Confederate memorial in Fort Payne, Alabama, in the United States. The monument was installed in 1913, "erected through the efforts of the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy, with the assistance of other interested citizens. The monument was originally located in the center of town and was moved to its present location at a later time..
The Confederate Monument, also known as the Dale County Confederate Soldiers Monument, is a Confederate memorial in Ozark, Alabama, in the United States. The monument was installed in 1910 by the Stonewall Jackson Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy No. 667 of Dale County, Alabama.
The Confederate Monument, also known as the Confederate Dead of Wilcox County, is an outdoor memorial in Camden, Alabama, in the United States. The monument was installed in 1880 by the Ladies Memorial and Wilcox Monumental Associations.
Old Live Oak Cemetery with the newer portion sometimes called New Live Oak Cemetery and collectively Live Oak Cemetery, is an historic cemetery in Selma, Alabama, founded in 1829 and expanded in 1877. It contains a variety of famous burials and a number of Confederate States of America-connected features. The site is at 110 Dallas Avenue approximately 0.7 miles west of downtown Selma.
The Tuskegee Confederate Monument, also known as the Macon County Confederate Memorial and Tuskegee Confederate Memorial, is an outdoor Confederate memorial installed 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.
The Unknown Alabama Confederate Soldiers Monument is an outdoor stone marker and memorial installed 3 miles north of Brantley, Alabama, in a privately-owned Confederate Veterans Memorial Park. The monument reads:
The Confederate Memorial Monument is a monument installed outside the Alabama State Capitol.
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