Lexington Cemetery is a private,non-profit 170-acre (69 ha) rural cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street,Lexington,Kentucky.
The Frankfort Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located on East Main Street in Frankfort,Kentucky. The cemetery is the burial site of Daniel Boone,the famed frontiersman,and contains the graves of other famous Americans including seventeen Kentucky governors and a Vice President of the United States.
Old Gray Cemetery is the second-oldest cemetery in Knoxville,Tennessee,United States. Established in 1850,the 13.47-acre (5.45 ha) cemetery contains the graves of some of Knoxville's most influential citizens,ranging from politicians and soldiers,to artists and activists. The cemetery is also noted for the Victorian era marble sculpture and elaborate carvings adorning many of the grave markers and headstones. In 1996,the cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The John Hunt Morgan Memorial in Lexington,Kentucky,is a monument created during the Jim Crow era,as a tribute to Confederate General John Hunt Morgan,who was from Lexington and is buried in Lexington Cemetery. The monument was originally situated on the Courthouse Lawn at the junction of North Upper and East Main Street,but was moved to Lexington Cemetery in 2018.
Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery is one mile from the old Kentucky Confederate Home site. The National Register of Historic Places lists the cemetery and separately an individual monument within it,the Confederate Memorial in Pewee Valley,as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS. It is the only cemetery for Confederate veterans,313 in total,that is an official state burying ground in Kentucky.
The Confederate Monument in Georgetown is within the Georgetown Cemetery of Georgetown,Kentucky. It is an unpolished granite obelisk that is twenty feet tall,surrounded by the graves of eighteen former Confederate soldiers. The various reliefs upon the obelisk include crossed cannons,crossed muskets,a drum,an azid,and flags. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17,1997,as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission.
The Confederate Monument in Cynthiana is located on the outer edge of Cynthiana,Kentucky in Battle Grove Cemetery. It was the first monument to the Confederate States of America dedicated in the State of Kentucky,and long believed to be the first Confederate memorial anywhere. Due to the 32nd Indiana Monument having been moved from its original location,the Cynthiana monument is the oldest Civil War monument still standing at its original location,where the second Battle of Cynthiana started,in the then-new town cemetery.
The Confederate Monument of Morganfield,Kentucky is a monument to Confederate soldiers from surrounding Union County,Kentucky,of which Morganfield is the county seat. It is in the northernmost corner of the City Cemetery/Odd Fellows Cemetery just outside downtown Morganfield. During the War "Union" County was mostly a Confederate-sympathizing county. The county produced 657 soldiers for the Confederacy,but only 187 for the Union,although 131 African-Americans joined the Union forces in 1864. In July 1862,Union forces at Caseyville,Kentucky threatened to arrest everyone in the town of treason,eventually freeing all but nineteen citizens. A skirmish in Morganfield on September 1,1862,resulted in a Confederate victory.
The Confederate Monument in Danville,originally located between Centre College and the First Presbyterian Church at the corner of Main and College Streets in Danville,Kentucky,was a monument dedicated to the Confederate States of America that is on the National Register of Historic Places. The monument was dedicated in 1910 by the surviving veterans of the Confederacy of Boyle County,Kentucky and the Kate Morrison Breckinridge Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). In 2021,it was relocated to a museum in Meade County,Kentucky.
The Confederate Monument in Frankfort is placed within a circle of the graves of 68 Confederate soldiers in Frankfort Cemetery in Kentucky. The statue depicts a life size Confederate soldier standing ready,carved from white Carrara marble and standing atop a granite pedestal on a limestone base. A flagpole displays the first flag of the Confederacy with seven stars. The monument was erected by Daughters of the Confederacy and unveiled in 1892.
The Unknown Confederate Dead Monument in Perryville is located in the vicinity of Perryville,in Boyle County,Kentucky,United States,in the Goodknight Cemetery,a small family cemetery on private land. It is presumed to have been constructed around the year 1928,sixty-six years after the Battle of Perryville on October 8,1862,in which the Confederate soldiers buried here anonymously died. In total,532 Confederates died at the battle,but it is unknown how many of this number are buried here.
The Union Monument in Perryville is an historic monument located by the visitor center of the Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site,in the vicinity of Perryville,Kentucky,in Boyle County,Kentucky. It was built in 1928,sixty-six years after the Battle of Perryville,the bloodiest battle in Kentucky history,on October 8,1862. There were 16,000 Union soldiers at the Battle of Perryville,with 4,276 combined killed,captured,wounded,and missing.
The Confederate Monument in Paducah,located northwest of downtown Paducah,Kentucky is a historic monument located in Paducah's Oak Grove Cemetery.
The Confederate Memorial in Mayfield is a commemorative monument and fountain located on the courthouse lawn in downtown Mayfield,Kentucky.
The Confederate Soldier Monument in Caldwell County,Kentucky is a historic statue located on the Caldwell County Courthouse south lawn in the county seat of Princeton,Kentucky,United States. It was erected in 1912 by the Tom Johnson Chapter No. 886 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).
The Confederate Monument in Owensboro,Ky., was a 16-foot-tall,two-part object —a 7-foot-tall bronze sculpture atop a 9-foot-tall granite pedestal —located at the southwest corner of the Daviess County Courthouse lawn,at the intersection of Third and Frederica Streets,in Owensboro,Kentucky. Nearly 122 years after the monument was dedicated in September 1900,the monument was dismantled in 2022,beginning with the removal of the sculpture in May 2022;the sculpture was placed in storage,pending a decision on what to do with it.
The Confederate Memorial Gateway in Hickman,Kentucky is a historic cemetery gateway in Fulton County,Kentucky. It was funded in 1913 by the Private Robert Tyler Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
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."
The Confederate Obelisk is a large Confederate monument located in the Oakland Cemetery of Atlanta,Georgia,United States. The structure,a tall obelisk located in the cemetery's Confederate section,was dedicated in 1874. Due to its connection to the Confederate States of America,the monument has been vandalized repeatedly.
