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Tennille: "A Confederate monument was dedicated in April 1917 by the J.D. Franklin Chapter of the UDC. It originally stood in a park called the square in the middle of the town and was originally a fountain with bowls on four sides of an eight-foot shaft. The Confederate battle flag is incised on the shaft.
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."
American Civil War portal; This category is for permanent military cemeteries established for Confederate soldiers and sailors who died during campaigns or operations.A common difference between cemeteries of war graves and those of civilian peacetime graves is the uniformity of those interred.
Note: This is a sublist of List of Confederate monuments and memorials from the South Carolina section. This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials in South Carolina 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.
(on front of base, raised letters:) confederate (on back of base, raised letters:) erected in memory of our/confederate soldiers/by the/united daughters of the confederacy/marshall chapter no. 412/1905/the love, gratitude, and memory/of the people of the south,/shall gild their fame in one/eternal sunshine.
Talladega: Confederate Memorial. Oak Hill Cemetery [citation needed] Tuscaloosa: Confederate Monument, Greenwood Cemetery (1880) by the Ladies Memorial Association [83] Tuskegee: Tuskegee Confederate Monument, erected October 6, 1906 by UDC of Macon County, Alabama. [84] The UDC owns both the monument and the town park it is located in.
“By 1902, 262 Confederate bodies were interred in a specially designated section, Section 16,” the cemetery said. The total is now more than 400, according to the cemetery website.
They are memorialized by the Monument of the Confederate War Dead, a 90-foot tall granite pyramid built in 1869. The cemetery is considered the unofficial National Confederate Cemetery and has hosted ceremonies commemorating Confederate Memorial Day since 1866. Hollywood Cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.