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The first, modelled after a young ROTC student, included the ROTC insignia on the uniform pocket. The inclusion of the insignia was offensive to the Daughters of the Confederacy, and the statue was sold to State College and replaced with the current one in time for the Dedication Day." [64] Washington County Confederate Memorial: Greenville,
The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is an American neo-Confederate [1] hereditary association for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers engaging in the commemoration of these ancestors, the funding of monuments to them, and the promotion of the pseudohistorical Lost Cause ideology and corresponding white supremacy.
Pages in category "United Daughters of the Confederacy monuments and memorials" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A statue honoring civil rights hero and US Congressman John Lewis was ... A 30-foot Confederate obelisk erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908 previously stood in Decatur ...
Erected 1935 by United Daughters of the Confederacy but dedicated to soldiers of all wars. An adjacent 20-foot flagpole and inscribed granite block dedicated to Civil War veterans buried there was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 2005. [164] Ormond Beach: 2011; Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery. Monument consists of a flagpole and a ...
The 10-ton slab of granite used in Seattle's memorial was shipped to Seattle via the Panama Canal from Georgia's Stone Mountain by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1926. The President of the UDC Robert E. Lee Chapter #885 and Washington Division at the time, Mrs. May Avery Wilkins, who was originally from Georgia, is credited with ...
Legislation that would end tax benefits for the United Daughters of the Confederacy — the Richmond-based women's group that helped erect many of the country's Confederate monuments — is on its ...
The 28 feet (8.5 m) tall statue consists of a granite obelisk topped by a marble sculpture of a Confederate soldier facing north, and weighs more than 15,000 pounds (6,800 kg). [2] The north face of the monument consists of engravings of the Virginia Battle Flag and Blood-Stained Banner , and contains the words "To our known and unknown ...