Memorial to the Confederate Dead (St. Louis)

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Memorial to the Confederate Dead
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One view of the Memorial to the Confederate Dead in Forest Park, June 2015
Memorial to the Confederate Dead (St. Louis)
Coordinates 38°38′40″N90°16′47″W / 38.644317°N 90.279642°W / 38.644317; -90.279642 Coordinates: 38°38′40″N90°16′47″W / 38.644317°N 90.279642°W / 38.644317; -90.279642
Location St. Louis, Missouri, United States

The Memorial to the Confederate Dead is a Confederate memorial in Missouri.

Around 1899, the Ladies’ Confederate Monument Association began raising funds to erect a monument in St. Louis to soldiers who had fought against the United States. After some $23,000 ($365,799 today [1] ) was raised, mostly from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the monument was installed in Forest Park, the city's largest park. It was dedicated on December 4, 1914. [2]

It was rededicated in 1964 on its 50th anniversary. [2]

In 2015, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay launched an effort to have the monument removed. [3] He appointed a committee of business and civic interests, which later that year recommended its removal. [4]

in June 2017, the monument was removed from Forest Park, [5] one of at least 36 Confederate memorials removed that year from locations around the country. [6]

As of 2022, it awaits a new home outside St. Louis City and County limits, per an agreement between the city and Missouri Civil War Museum in Jefferson Barracks. [5]

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