Georgia List of Confederate monuments and memorials

1 georgia

1.1 buildings
1.2 monuments

1.2.1 courthouse monuments
1.2.2 other public monuments
1.2.3 private monuments

1.2.3.1 gallery




1.3 inhabited places
1.4 parks
1.5 public works
1.6 roads
1.7 schools
1.8 state symbols
1.9 city symbols
1.10 photos

georgia

there @ least 174 public spaces confederate monuments in georgia.

a law twentieth century, last amended in 2004, says no publicly owned military monuments can relocated, removed, concealed, obscured, or altered unless preserve, protect, or interpretation.

buildings

athens: allen d. candler hall @ university of georgia (1901)
athens: joseph e. brown hall @ university of georgia (1932)

augusta canal national historic area, georgia: includes sibley mill , confederate states powder works (1862); rededicated 2010 when listed national historic landmark.



monuments
courthouse monuments


other public monuments

henry wirz memorial, andersonville



crisp county confederate monument, cordele



alexander h. stephens statue, a. h. stephens historic park, crawfordville



joseph e. johnston, dalton



unveiling of dutchy , elberton



monument great locomotive chase, ringgold



abbeville: confederate memorial monument (1909)
americus: confederate monument (1900)
andersonville: monument henry wirz, georgia division udc, erected in 1908.
atlanta

csa brig. gen. alfred iverson jr. monument
csa gen. john brown gordon memorial, georgia state capitol grounds. (1907)
eternal flame of confederacy monument (1939)


augusta: augusta confederate monument. commissioned ladies memorial association in 1875, erected in 1878.
baxley: confederate memorial
brunswick: confederate memorial in hanover square
calhoun: confederate soldier , memorial arch, 1927.
canton: confederate memorial arch, brown park, 1923.
cochran: bleckley county confederate monument, old cochran city school, 1910.
cockspur island: immortal 6 hundred @ fort pulaski national monument
columbus:

confederate monument, city street median, 1879.
tyler home – ladies aid society memorial, veteran s parkway, 1936.


commerce: udc monument (1941) in spencer park women , veterans of war between states. high school students sang dixie @ dedication ceremony.
cordele: crisp county confederate monument, community clubhouse, 1911.
crawfordville: alexander h. stephens statue (1893), a. h. stephens historic park, crawfordville
cuthbert: randolph county confederate monument, city park, 1910.
dalton: 2 memorials csa gen. joseph e. johnston:

johnson statue (1912) in downtown dalton. udc commissioned belle kinney sculpt bronze statue, in johnston posed expression of deep thought, sword resting @ feet . kinney explained, general johnston, in command of army vastly inferior in numbers general sherman s army, had use brains more sword; hence made sword subservient brain.
memorial plaque @ johnston headquarters, huff house


decatur: confederate memorial. obelisk located behind old dekalb county courthouse on decatur square. monument has been defaced several times.
douglas: confederate memorial, corner of peterson avenue (u.s. route 441 southbound) , ward street (u.s. route 221 business westbound).
eatonton: eatonton confederate monument, median in front of putnam county courthouse, 1908.
elberton:

dutchy (dedicated 1898; removed 1900; placed on display in elberton 1982). wanting promote granite industry , honor lost cause, elberton commissioned italian immigrant had never seen confederate soldier sculpt 3,000 lb (1,400 kg) granite monument. unveiled in 1898, sculpture had cartoonish face, bulbous eyes, , appeared wearing union army uniform. nicknamed dutchy because looked cross between pennsylvania dutchman , hippopotamus, monument pulled down , buried fell in town square in 1900. sculpture exhumed in 1982, run through local car wash, , placed on display in elberton granite museum, remains.
elbert county confederate memorial (1898), elberton town plaza


fitzgerald: jefferson davis monument, jefferson davis memorial historic site, 1920.
fort oglethorpe: chickamauga & chattanooga national military park. numerous monuments , memorials confederate soldiers , units, union monuments.
franklin: heard county confederate monument, veterans park, 1999.
gainesville:

hall county confederate monument, town square, 1909.
a totem pole honoring local confederate soldiers erected in 1936 @ redwine methodist church. monument no longer exists.
statue of csa general james longstreet @ home


gray: memorial soldiers in war between states , world war.
griffin: confederate monument, veterans memorial plaza, 1909.
hamilton: memorial honoring confederate dead.
hawkinsville: confederate sons of america memorial (confederate states of america?)
jeffersonville: confederate memorial, across street twiggs county courthouse, 1911.
kingston: first confederate hospital of civil war, main street.
lafayette: walker county confederate monument, john b. gordon hall, 1909.
lagrange: monument confederate soldier, median, 1902.
lincolnton: lincoln county confederate monument, center of town.
macon: bibb county confederate monument, triangle park downtown, 1879. moved present location in 1950s.w
madison: morgan county confederate monument, hill park, 1909.
marietta: confederate memorial (1908), marietta confederate cemetery
milledgeville: confederate memorial fountain, downtown median, 1912.
montezuma: macon county confederate monument, median, 1911.
monticello: jasper county confederate monument, city square, 1910. confederate soldiers of jasper county, record of sublime self sacrifice , undying devotion duty, in service of country proud heritage of local posterity.
resaca confederate cemetery
ringgold:

statue of csa gen. patrick cleburne
general (1901), monument erected @ location confederate locomotive general—stolen union army soldiers in 1862—was stopped following great locomotive chase




francis s. bartow in savannah, georgia



savannah:

colonel francis s. bartow bust, forsyth park, 1902.
confederate monument, forsyth park, 1879.
general lafayette mclaws bust, forsyth park, 1902.
silence, city-owned laurel grove cemetery, 1875.


springfield: confederate memorial, across effington county courthouse, 1923.
stone mountain: stone mountain confederate memorial carving, 1923. stacey abrams, democratic candidate governor, called removal of reliefs.... carving protected law.
talbotton: confederate memorial
thomson: monument women of sixties, mcduffie county chamber of commerce, 1911.
tifton: tift county confederate memorial, fulwood park, 1910, rededicated 1992.
trenton: confederate memorial in veterans park next town square.
union point:

confederate reunion memorial, along city sidewalk, 1874.
confederate wayside home monument, wide median, 1936.


waycross: ware county confederate, phoenix park, 1910.

private monuments

albany: confederate memorial park, owned , maintained scv , udc.
augusta: confederate monument @ st. james united methodist church. (no longer there of 2017, according street view)
cordele: retired titan intercontinental ballistic missile standing upright next interstate highway entitled confederate air force pad #1 , commemorating georgia s role in civil war. erected 1969.
rome: confederate monuments @ myrtle hill cemetery include:

nathan bedford forrest monument (1909), udc monument
women of confederacy monument (1910), dedicated theodore roosevelt



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inhabited places

bartow, renamed francis s. bartow in 1861.
bartow county, named csa gen. francis s. bartow.
ben hill county, named csa sen. benjamin harvey hill.
bleckley county, named logan edwin bleckley.
cook county, named csa brig. gen. philip cook.
jeff davis county, named csa president jefferson davis.
lamar county, named lucius quintus cincinnatus lamar ii.
stephens county, named alexander h. stephens, vice president of confederate states of america.
toombs county, named robert toombs, first sec. of state of confederate states of america.
wheeler county, named csa gen. joseph wheeler.

parks

cobb county: kennesaw mountain national battlefield park, tribute 14 generals georgia (1917)
fitzgerald: jefferson davis memorial historic site (1920)

public works

muscogee: stonewall jackson dam

roads

jefferson davis highway marker in irwin county



schools

atlanta: joseph e. brown middle school
hazlehurst: jeff davis elementary, high school, middle school, , primary school.
thomaston: robert e. lee high school (thomaston, georgia)
trenton: davis elementary school

state symbols

the current (2003) georgia state flag confederate stars , bars flag addition of state s symbolic arch between stars.






the 1956 georgia state flag incorporated confederate battle flag , bars of confederate star , bars flag. according 2000 georgia senate research report 1956 flag adopted in era when georgia general assembly entirely devoted passing legislation preserve segregation , white supremacy , , changed state flag during atmosphere of preserving segregation , resentment u.s. government s rulings on integration.
the short lived 2001–2003 flag included miniature version of 1956 flag along other miniature former flags

city symbols

trenton, georgia: city council upset state s 1956 flag being changed. faced threat of funding cut if refused fly 2001 state flag, city adopted modified 1956 flag complete confederate battle flag city flag in 2002. when new mayor removed city flag in 2004, objections raised sons of confederate veterans , 2005 referendum confirmed flag 278–64.

photos

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