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Note: This is a sublist of List of Confederate monuments and memorials from the Georgia section. 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.
Pages in category "Confederate States of America monuments and memorials in Georgia" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The monument is seventy-six feet high on a granite base, topped by a shaft of Carrara marble. The monument was commissioned in 1875 by the Ladies Memorial Association of Augusta. [ 2 ] It was designed by the architectural firm of VanGruder and Young of Philadelphia, built by the Markwalter firm of Augusta, [ 3 ] carved by Antonio Fontana, [ 4 ...
Hall County Confederate Monument: Gainesville, Public Square Henry Allen, designer American Bronze Company, founder bronze dedicated June 7, 1909 [39] [40] Hawkinsville Confederate Monument: Hawkinsville, Pulaski County Courthouse: McNeel Marble Works Marble, granite base July 31, 1908 [41]
Lewis served as a US representative for Georgia’s 5th Congressional District from 1987 until his death in 2020. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011 by President Barack Obama ...
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."
Its colossal, mountainside sculpture of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson is the largest Confederate monument eve
Union (American Civil War) monuments and memorials in Georgia (U.S. state) (2 P) Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.