List of Confederate monuments and memorials in Alabama explained

This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials in Alabama 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. Part of the commemoration of the American Civil War, these symbols include monuments and statues, flags, holidays and other observances, and the names of schools, roads, parks, bridges, counties, cities, lakes, dams, military bases, and other public works.

This list does not include items which are largely historic in nature such as historic markers or battlefield parks if they were not established to honor the Confederacy. Nor does it include figures connected with the origins of the Civil War or white supremacy, but not with the Confederacy.

Monuments and memorials

, there are at least 122 public spaces with Confederate monuments in Alabama.

The 2017 Alabama Memorial Preservation Act was passed to require local governments to obtain state permission before removing Confederate monuments and memorials.[1] [2] [3]

State capitol

State symbols

State holidays

Buildings

Monuments

Courthouse monuments

Other public monuments

Private monuments

Inhabited places

Parks, water features and dams

Roads

Schools

City symbols

Notes and References

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  2. News: AG files lawsuit against Birmingham over Confederate monument. Edgemon. Erin. 2017-08-17. AL.com. 2017-09-01. en-US.
  3. News: Alabama Lawmaker sponsors bills to repeal legislation preserving Confederate Monuments. 2017-08-28. The Birmingham Times. 2017-09-01. en-US.
  4. http://www.conservationsolution.com/docs/Alabama%20Confederate.pdf Alabama Confederate Monument.
  5. News: Alabama Gov. Bentley removes Confederate flags from Capitol grounds. Charles. Dean. 24 June 2015. The Birmingham News. 24 June 2015.
  6. http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMD59M_Jefferson_Davis_Star_Montgomery_Alabama Jefferson Davis Star-Montgomery, Alabama.
  7. http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMD6B1_Jefferson_Davis_Montgomery_Alabama Jefferson Davis – Montgomery, Alabama.
  8. Web site: These 5 states still use Confederate symbols in their flags. Msnbc.com. August 19, 2017.
  9. Book: Coski, John M.. The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem. https://web.archive.org/web/20160309032406/https://books.google.com/books?id=zs0VJTbNwfAC&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=falsee. dead. 2016-03-09. 2005. March 8, 2016. 80–81. United States of America. First Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-01983-6. The flag changes in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida coincided with the passage of formal Jim Crow segregation laws throughout the South. Four years before Mississippi incorporated a Confederate battle flag into its state flag, its constitutional convention passed pioneering provisions to 'reform' politics by effectively disenfranchising most African Americans..
  10. Web site: State of Alabama 2018 Official State Holidays. September 2, 2018.
  11. Web site: Confederate Soldiers Monument, Ashville, Alabama. Civilwaralbum.com. August 19, 2017.
  12. Davis, Michael. In Remembrance: Confederate Funerary Monuments in Alabama and Resistance to Reconciliation, 1884–1923. Master's thesis, Auburn University. Accessed August 15, 2017
  13. Web site: The Choctaw County Courthouse. Rootsweb.ancestry.com. August 19, 2017.
  14. Web site: Things to Do – Pickens County Alabama. Pickenscountyal.com. August 19, 2017.
  15. http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM7JCC_Confederate_Veterans_Memorial_Centre_AL Confederate Veterans Memorial – Centre, AL
  16. Web site: National Register of Historic Places, Centreville Historic District, registration form.
  17. Book: Eufaula and Barbour County in Vintage Postcards . Arcadia . 2004 . 97. 9780738515953 .
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  19. https://www.al.com/news/2020/06/where-are-alabamas-confederate-monuments-markers-many-at-courthouses-exist-across-alabama.html Where are Alabama's Confederate Monuments? Markers, many at courthouses, exist across Alabama
  20. News: New marker could be placed near Lauderdale County Confederate statue to explain the history behind it . Aria . Pons . February 9, 2024 . 48 WAFF . February 9, 2024.
  21. Shumate, Joyce Nunn. The Confederate monument in Jasper, Alabama on the national register of historic places. Accessed August 15, 2017
  22. http://tommcknight.com/sumter-county-al/confederatestatuedonations.htm Confederate Monument.
  23. Web site: Nicola Marschall . HMdb.org . October 1, 2018.
  24. News: 'Loyal Slave' Monuments Tell a Racist Lie About American History. Kali. Holloway. March 25, 2019. The Nation. August 23, 2019. November 15, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191115105301/https://www.thenation.com/article/loyal-slave-confederate-monuments-civil-war-slavery/. dead.
  25. http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMNFQ2_Lawrence_County_Confederate_Veterans_Memorial_Moulton_AL Lawrence County Confederate Veterans Memorial – Moulton, AL.
  26. http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMNFM3_Colbert_County_Confederate_Veterans_Memorial_Tuscumbia_AL Colbert County Confederate Veterans Memorial – Tuscumbia, AL
  27. http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM43QD Major John Pelham – Anniston, AL
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  29. Web site: Alabama . HMdb.org . October 2, 2018.
  30. News: Alabama police officer crashes into Confederate Monument while on patrol. Edgemon. Erin. July 16, 2016. AL.com. August 16, 2017. en-US.
  31. News: A car crash topples a Confederate statue – and forces a Southern town to confront its past. Montgomery. David. August 6, 2017. The Week. August 16, 2017.
  32. News: Confederate monument needs to be moved. Johnston. Patrick. June 11, 2010. The Eufaula Tribune. August 16, 2017. en.
  33. Web site: James Cantey . HMdb.org . October 7, 2018.
  34. Graham, Kelsey (August 2, 2013). Fort Payne celebrates Confederate Monument. Times Free Press. Accessed August 15, 2017
  35. Crownover, Danny (April 1, 2016) The Vagabond – 109 Years Ago Unveiling of the Emma Sansom Statue. Gadsden Messenger. Accessed August 15, 2017
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  37. http://www.greenville-alabama.com/Sites/Greenville/Documents/Chamber/____REVISED%20Tourist%20Brochure.pdf Historic Downtown Greenville, Alabama.
  38. https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=71840 Henry County Confederate Memorial.
  39. News: Remove Confederate monument in Huntsville, petition says. Gattis. Paul. May 16, 2017. AL.com. August 16, 2017. en-US.
  40. News: Confederate monument in Huntsville removed overnight. Gattis. Paul. AL.com. October 23, 2020. November 2, 2020.
  41. Web site: Moving a monument: how the Confederate monument eventually moved to Maple Hill Cemetery . Robinson-Smith . Will . October 25, 2020 . WAAY . February 28, 2021 . March 5, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210305235627/https://www.waaytv.com/content/news/Moving-a-monument-how-the-Confederate-monument-eventually-moved-to-Maple-Hill-Cemetery-572860231.html . dead .
  42. News: Philip. Tutor. Memory or History? Insight: Throughout the South, memorials with difficult histories pose vexing problems. Anniston Star. January 17, 2016.
  43. Web site: Confederate Memorial – Midway, AL – Alabama Historical Markers. Waymarking.com. 26 September 2017.
  44. North American Preservation of Monuments. Alabama. Napom.org. Accessed August 16, 2017
  45. Sons of Confederate Veterans: Raphael Semmes Camp 11. Statue of Admiral Semmes Overlooking Bankhead Tunnel in Downtown Mobile. Scvsemmes.org. Accessed August 16, 2017
  46. Web site: Mobile National Cemetery . U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs . August 28, 2017 .
  47. Web site: Dexter Avenue . HMdb.org . October 2, 2018.
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  50. https://books.google.com/books?id=m8E_AQAAMAAJ&dq=opelika+confederate+monument&pg=PA250 "Monument at Opelika, Ala."
  51. Web site: The Battle of Newton - Newton, Alabama . Explore Southern History . March 17, 2014 . 2017-10-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180103090310/http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/newtonbattle.html . 2018-01-03 . dead .
  52. Web site: Janney Furnace Memorial Park . Calhoun County Alabama . November 5, 2017.
  53. News: Catoe . Laura . October 21, 2012 . History Is Alive At Janney Furnace Park In Ohatchee . The Gadsten Times.
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  55. Web site: The Prattville Dragoons . HMdb.org . October 1, 2018.
  56. Historical Marker Database. General Joseph Wheeler. Hmdb.com Accessed August 18, 2017
  57. Web site: We Shall Overcome – Selma-to-Montgomery March. Ginny. Finch. Nps.gov.
  58. Web site: Defense of Selma Memorial Historical Marker. hmdb.org. August 20, 2017.
  59. Web site: Selma Navy Yard and Ordnance Works Marker – Historic Markers Across Alabama. www.lat34north.com. August 20, 2017.
  60. News: Council Moves Forward with Plans to Sell Confederate Circle. September 11, 2013. Selma Times-Journal. December 10, 2017.
  61. News: Monument is now headless. March 13, 2012. Selma Times-Journal. December 10, 2017.
  62. Evans, Daniel (May 23, 2015). "Forrest bust back at Old Live Oak." Selma-Times Journal. Accessed August 16, 2017
  63. News: Selma, 50 years after march, remains a city divided. Matthew. Teague. March 6, 2015. LA Times. August 30, 2017.
  64. Web site: Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama. www.civilwaralbum.com. August 23, 2017.
  65. http://www.ruralswalabama.org/attraction/elodie-todd-dawson-monument-selma-live-oak-cemetery/ Elodie Todd Dawson Monument in Selma's Old Live Oak Cemetery.
  66. Web site: Tallassee Armory. 1965. Alabama Historical Association. May 2, 2018. Historical Marker Database.
  67. Web site: Brigadier General Birkett Davenport Fry, CSA / Tallassee Confederate Officers Quarters. 2014. Historical Marker Database. May 2, 2018. Alabama Historical Association.
  68. Historical Marker Database. Confederate Memorial. Hmdb.org Accessed August 16, 2017
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  70. Web site: Tannehill Furnaces . HMdb.org . October 7, 2018.
  71. Confederated Southern Memorial Association, History of the Confederated Memorial Associations of the South (New Orleans: Graham Press, 1904), pp. 48–49
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  73. Witnessing a Rally for a Brand-New Confederate Monument. Okeowo. Alexis. 2017-08-29. The New Yorker. 2017-08-30.
  74. News: State NAACP opposes new Confederate statue. August 24, 2017. The Tuskegee News. Benard. Simelton.
  75. News: A close-up look at Birmingham's embattled Confederate monument. Almond. Mark. July 2, 2015. AL.com. August 16, 2017. en-US.
  76. Web site: Confederate Rest. Admiral Raphael Semmes Camp #11.
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  78. Web site: Chapter History. Amelia Gayle Gorgas Chapter 2117
    United Daughters of the Confederacy. August 19, 2017.
  79. Web site: Macon County Confederate Memorial – Tuskegee, Alabama. waymarking.com. June 5, 2008. August 16, 2017.
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  81. iconions (Dec 12, 2012). Confederate Soldiers Memorial – Union Springs, AL Waymarking.com Accessed September 26, 2017
  82. Web site: The Wetumpka Light Guard 1861 - 1865 . 1931 . John D. Gordon Chapter, U.D.C. and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. . March 1, 2021.
  83. Web site: McFarland Park and Recreation Area Marker – Historic Markers Across Alabama. Lat34north.com. August 17, 2017.
  84. Alabama Historical Commission, State Historic Preservation Office. History of Confederate Memorial Park. Accessed August 15, 2017
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  86. News: Confederate schools, mascots, and monuments around Alabama. 2017-06-02. AL.com. 2017-08-30. en-US.
  87. Web site: About The School / School Profile. www.lee.k12.al.us. 4 September 2017.