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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 .
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."
The DeKalb County Confederate Monument is a Confederate memorial that formerly stood in Decatur, Georgia, United States. The 30-foot stone obelisk (9.1 m) was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy near the old county courthouse in 1908. [1] [2]
List of Confederate monuments and memorials, for a comprehensive list of monuments and memorials, places, schools, parks, streets, geographical features, and other objects named for the Confederacy or its members; Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials, for those that have been removed
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.
The Augusta Confederate Monument, also known as the Richmond County Confederate Monument, [1] is located in the median of the 700 block of Broad Street in downtown Augusta, Georgia, and is inscribed, in part “In Memoriam 'No nation rose so white and fair: None fell so pure of crime.' Our Confederate Dead.”
The monument was one of the first monuments to the casualties of the American Civil War to be raised in the South after the war's conclusion. [4] Construction of the monument began on May 5, 1871, and was completed on June 3, 1872, at the cost of $4,444.44 (about $111,363 in 2023) raised by the Ladies' Memorial Association from the residents of the city, though another professor at the ...