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Over a third of the courthouse monuments were dedicated to the dead. The majority of the cemetery monuments in his study were built in the pre-1900 period, while most of the courthouse monuments were erected after 1900. Of the 666 monuments in his study 55% were of Confederate soldiers, while 28% were obelisks.
Chart of public symbols of the Confederacy and its leaders as surveyed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, by year of establishment [note 1]. Most of the Confederate monuments on public land were built in periods of racial conflict, such as when Jim Crow laws were being introduced in the late 19th century and at the start of the 20th century or during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ...
The federal government's policy toward Confederate graves at Arlington National Cemetery changed at the end of the 19th century. The 10-week Spanish–American War of 1898 marked the first time since prior to the Civil War that Americans from all states, North and South, were involved in a military conflict with a foreign power. [11]
Most of those monuments were delivered to Confederate cemeteries or accepted by museums, although a handful were headed for private properties or to local historical societies and organizations ...
Consequently, monuments and memorials tell us more about the historical moment in which they were envisioned and erected than the historical moment they purport to celebrate.
City officials and historians debated what to do with the bronze statues erected to honor Confederate figures after they were removed in the middle of the night Aug. 17, 2017, and hauled to the ...
in part: confederate / dead: this monument was erected / by the lakeland chapter, / united daughters / of the confederacy / in memory of the noble / sons of the south. / A.D. 1910. IN MEMORY OF THAT NOBLE BAND / WHO HAVE CROSSED THE MYSTIC / STREAM, / AND ARE RESTING NOW IN THAT / HAPPY LAND, / WHERE PEACE AND PLEASURE / REIGN SUPREME.
Leaders voted 5-4 to put the controversial sculpture on display.