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Monument to Confederate Soldiers and Sailors, by Alabama by sculptor Alexander Doyle, at the Alabama State Capitol. As of 24 June 2020, there are at least 122 public spaces with Confederate monuments in Alabama.
On the north side of Capitol Hill there is a monument dedicated to Alabama's more than 122,000 Confederate veterans of the Civil War, known as the Confederate Memorial Monument. The 88-foot (27 m) tall monument was dedicated on December 7, 1898, although it had been planned as early as November 1865. [1]
Pages in category "Confederate States of America monuments and memorials in Alabama" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [13] According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."
Confederate Monument: Montgomery, Alabama State Capitol: Alexander Doyle, sculptor Gorda C. Doud, designer Russellville limestone, granite, bronze dedicated December 7, 1898 Inscriptions: 1861-1865 / CONSECRATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS AND SEAMEN
The monument consists of a life-sized granite statue of a Confederate soldier holding a rifle. [1] The base underneath the statue is engraved with text praising what it describes as the "noble cause" of the Confederacy and commemorating those who lost their lives fighting for it, including Huntsville local General John Hunt Morgan.
The Alabama State Monument, also known as the Alabama State Memorial, is a monument which is located in the Gettysburg National Military Park. It memorializes the Confederate units from Alabama that took part in the Battle of Gettysburg .
The cornerstone of the Monument plinth was laid during the 1894 Reunion of United Confederate Veterans on Confederate Decoration Day, April 26. [2] and contained a Bible and Confederate flag. [3] The slab of rock was unused for several years, though a surplus artillery piece from the Spanish–American War of 1898 once rested on it.