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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 ]
Confederate Memorial Monument, also known as the "Monument to Confederate Soldiers and Sailors" (1898). [6] On June 24, 2015, in the wake of the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015, on the order of Governor Robert J. Bentley, the four Confederate flags, and their poles, were removed.
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
White's Ferry, Montgomery County: Confederate Monument, a granite pedestal. The base of the CSA monument moved from Rockville, MD, to White's Ferry, MD. The original monument, a bronze life-sized Confederate soldier on this pedestal, was originally donated by the UDC and the United Confederate Veterans, and built by the Washington firm of ...
Montgomery, Alabama, United States A bronze sculpture of Jefferson Davis by Frederick ... Confederate Memorial Monument; List of Confederate monuments and memorials;
It was the first Confederate monument of over sixty American Civil War monuments in Kentucky. In Montgomery, the LMA raised $10,000 for the Confederate Memorial Monument on the grounds of the Alabama State Capitol, designed by Alexander Doyle and erected in 1898. [6]
Two high schools in Alabama's capital, a hub of the civil rights movement, will no longer bear the names of Confederate leaders. The Montgomery County Board of Education on Thursday voted for new ...
The Alabama State Capitol building and with adjacent Confederate Monument on the surrounding Capitol lawn / grounds, prior to erection of the twin north and south side-wings with expanded chambers and offices for the Senate and the House of Representatives in 1906-1907 and 1911-1912. - (photograph taken c.1906)