Tennessee List of Confederate monuments and memorials

1 tennessee

1.1 buildings
1.2 monuments

1.2.1 courthouse monuments
1.2.2 other public monuments


1.3 parks
1.4 roads
1.5 inhabited places
1.6 schools
1.7 theme park
1.8 former

tennessee

there @ least 80 public spaces confederate monuments in tennessee. tennessee heritage protection act (2016) , 2013 law restrict removal of statues , memorials.

buildings

murfreesboro: forrest hall @ middle tennessee state university

monuments
courthouse monuments

confederate women monument, nashville



blountville: confederate memorial (1928)
bolivar: monument memory of fallen confederate sons (1873)
brownsville: confederate memorial (1909)
charlotte:

confederate monument (2001): confederate veterans memorial honoring dickson county served csa.
confederate veterans memorial (2012) honoring gallant soldiers, veterans , families.


cleveland: confederate monument (1911)
covington: confederate monument (1894)
decaturville: confederate monument<ref= tennessean />
dover: fort donelson. confederate fort named csa general daniel smith donelson captured union general grant in 1862, retained fort s name saying fort donelson hereafter marked in capitals on maps of our united country... contains confederate monument donated united daughters of confederacy in 1933.
dresden: weakley county confederate monument (1915)
dyersburg:

confederate monument (1905)
united confederate veterans civil war plaques (1926)


fayetteville:

civil war memorial in memory of 3 thousand confederate soldiers of lincoln county (1906)
women s monument kept responsibilities of farms , businesses during civil war (1904)


greeneville: john hunt morgan memorial
jackson: our confederate dead monument (1888)
lafayette: macon county counfederate monument (2001)
lewisburg: confederate soldier monument (1904)
manchester: erected 1991 united daughters of confederacy.
murfreesboro: confederate monument (1901)
nashville: tennessee confederate women s monument, belle kinney scholz, sculptor (1926)
paris: confederate monument (1900)
pulaski: rebel martyr sam davis statue (1906)
savannah: confederate monument (1995)
selmer: confederate memorial (1994)
shelbyville: confederate memorial in memory of shelbyville rebels company f 41st tennessee regiment csa (1937)
smithville: dekalb county confederate monument (1996)
spencer: confederate monument (1988)
springfield: confederate monument (2012)
trenton: confederate monument (1900)
union city: confederate monument (1869)
waynesboro: confederate monument (2003)

other public monuments

pyramid of cannonballs commemorate patrick cleburne in franklin, tennessee



jefferson davis statue in former confederate park, memphis



sign of confederate circle in mount olivet cemetery, nashville



altamont: confederate memorial (1896), depicting flags of confederacy
beechgrove:

nathan bedford forrest monument, in beechgrove confederate cemetery.
memorial 20th tennessee volunteer infantry (2008), in beechgrove confederate cemetery.


centerville: confederate civil war memorial plaque
chapel hill: obelisk confederate flag on site nathan bedford forrest born. there medallion-shaped monument outside city hall confederate flag.
chattanooga: statue of alexander p. stewart, confederate lieutenant, in front of chattanooga/hamilton county courthouse. (1919) efforts have been made remove statue.
clarksville: confederate monument (1893), greenwood cemetery
crossville: confederate , union memorial
denmark: britton lane confederate monument (1897)
dyersburg: confederate monument (2004), old city cemetery
franklin: confederal funeral rest memorial, rose hill cemetery

cannonballs stacked in pyramid commemorate csa general patrick cleburne died in battle of franklin
our confederate soldiers monument (1899), udc monument known locally chip memorializes soldiers died in battle of franklin.


gallatin: confederate soldiers monument (1903)
hamilton county: chickamauga & chattanooga national military park. numerous monuments , memorials confederate soldiers , units, union monuments.
humboldt: confederate monument (1900), bailey park
knoxville:

a stone monument erected in 1914 united daughters of confederacy @ corner of 17th street , laurel avenue, in fort sanders neighborhood, defaced in august, 2017.
civil war memorial (1901), knoxville national cemetery
monument confederate dead (1892), bethel avenue


lebanon: confederate memorial gen. hatton statue (1912)
rutherford county: grounds around county courthouse contain 1901 monument confederacy , 2011 memorial county served in army of tennessee.
memphis:

the nathan bedford forrest monument in memphis



monument captain j. harvey mathes, 37th tennessee csa
jefferson davis monument (1964): city suing state removed.
nathan bedford forrest monument (1904): installed in part judge thomas j. latham s wife. located in former nathan bedford forrest park, in 2015 renamed health sciences park. city of memphis suing state removed.


mount pleasant: confederate monument (1907)
mulberry: confederate memorial (1909)
murfreesboro: confederate circle in evergreen cemetery established in 1891 memorial approximately 2,000 confederate soldiers remains reinterred there.
nashville:

confederate private monument (1909) in centennial park.
confederate gallery, ryman auditorium
nathan bedford forrest bust in tennessee state capitol. installed @ douglas henry s request. governor bill haslam , u.s. senator bob corker called removal in 2015. other protesters called removal on august 14, 2017.
sam davis statue (1909) outside tennessee state capitol. commission suggested sumner archibald cunningham, founding editor of confederate veteran, attended dedication in 1909. in august 2017 protesters covered statue, tennessee highway patrol , nashville fire department uncovered it.
mount olivet cemetery had burial , memorial area established ladies group shortly after civil war became known confederate circle.
nathan bedford forrest statue surrounded confederate battle flags near interstate 65, installed in 1998.


parkers crossroads:

freeman s battery (2002)
morton s battery (2007)


pulaski:

seventh kentucky mounted infantry memorial (1911)
confederate subsection confederate monument dedicated united daughters of confederacy in 1913, maplewood cemetery.


sewanee:

kirby-smith monument (1940)


tazewell: confederate memorial (2000) honoring unknown confederate dead; located in irish memorial cemetery.
union city: confederate monument (1909)
winchester

udc memorial confederate soldiers (1950), city cemetery
scv memorial confederate soldiers (2003), confederate cemetery, adjoining city cemetery


woodbury: 1926 monument honors confederate soldiers , marks spot csa lt. col. john b. hutchenson killed.

parks

eva: nathan bedford forrest state park (1963)
franklin: confederate memorial park @ winstead hill park&nbsp

roads

inhabited places

dixie lee junction unincorporated community dixie , lee highways intersect

schools

chapel hill: forrest high school
paris: robert e. lee school
sewanee: university of south more closely linked confederacy other university. confederate flags in stained glass windows of chapel. students late 1871 required wear uniforms of cadet gray cloth . confederate flags hung in chapel dedication in 1909 until mid-1990s when removed reportedly improve acoustics . there official portrait hanging @ university of bishop leonidas polk, in charge of celebration of cornerstone laying in 1857, , said new university materially aid south resist , repel fanatical domination seeks rule on us. resigned ecclesiastical position become major general in confederate army (called sewanee s fighting bishop ), , died in battle in 1864. official portrait @ university depicts him dressed bishop army uniform hanging nearby. confederate flag emblazoned on university mace led processions marking beginning , ending of term 1965 until 1997. @ special chapel service celebrate jefferson davis birthday, ceremonial mace consecrated memory of nathan bedford forrest, first grand wizard of ku klux klan, bishop charles c. j. carpenter of alabama – 1 of clergy opposed dr. martin luther king jr. s activities in birmingham in 1963, prompting king write letter birmingham jail in response.


the vice chancellor chief academic officer @ university; chancellor bishop of episcopal church. jefferson davis , robert e. lee both turned down offers of position. (sewanee has portrait of davis.) first vice chancellor rt. rev. charles todd quintard, called chaplain of confederacy . compiled confederate soldiers pocket manual of devotions (charleston, 1863).
the university s chief donor john armfield, @ time co-owner of franklin , armfield, largest slave-trading firm in u.s. purchased site , gave university endowment of $25,000 year. in addition polk, bishop stephen elliott, first , presiding bishop of protestant episcopal church in confederate states of america, , bishop james hervey otey, later prominent in confederacy, significant founders of university. generals edmund kirby smith, josiah gorgas, , francis a. shoup prominent in university s postbellum revival , continuance.


tullahoma: robert e. lee elementary (1964)
vanderbilt university: bust of confederate colonel , board of trust treasurer edmund william cole in kirkland hall, administration building, designed george julian zolnay. namesake of annual cole lecture. campus includes several buildings tied slavery , confederacy.

theme park

pigeon forge: rebel railroad small theme park built in 1961, main attraction being simulated confederate steam train afforded confederate citizens opportunity ride 5 mile train route through hostile territory , repel yankee assault on train . rebel railroad purchased in 1970 art modell, owner of cleveland browns.

former


confederate memorial hall, known memorial hall, vanderbilt university.

the 2016 tennessee heritage protection act puts brakes on cities , counties ability remove monuments or change names of streets , parks.

franklin: forrest crossing golf course, owned american golf corporation, changed name crossing golf course on september 22, 2017. named after confederate general , klansman nathan bedford forrest.
memphis: 3 confederate-themed city parks hurriedly renamed prior enactment of tennessee heritage protection act of 2013. confederate park (1908) renamed memphis park; jefferson davis park renamed mississippi river park; , nathan bedford forrest park renamed health sciences park.
nashville: confederate memorial hall on campus of vanderbilt university built in 1935. school renamed building memorial hall in august 2016, , returned united daughters of confederacy 2016 value ($1,200,000) of donation @ time of construction.




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