Funny things about Confederate monuments. There are a LOT more Confederate monuments than Union Army ones. Most Confederate monuments were erected during the Jim Crow and Civil Rights era .. and even more recently. There are groups called Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans that erect them everywhere a former Confederate might have died. So we have Confederate monuments in Arizona, Washington state, Massachusetts, Illinois .... not just in the Confederate states.
A lot of this is about more recent history, not necessarily the CW itself. And maybe the relative dearth of Union Army monuments can be chalked up to winners not needing a participation trophy.
A few observations:
Illinois furnished a LOT of Union soldiers yet has only two Civil War memorials for the Union side. It also has two for Confederates:
Illinois Union Civil War monuments:
Illinois[ edit] Civil War Memorial (Sycamore, Illinois) Soldiers' Monument (Freeport, Illinois)
Illinois Confederate monuments:
Illinois[ edit]Confederate Cemetery and Memorial, Alton, Illinois [129]Confederate Mound at Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois [130] [131]
West Virginia seceded from Virginia during the Civil War and few battles were fought on its soil.
There are no Union monuments but a lot them for the Confederates:
Monuments[ edit] Romney: First Confederate Memorial
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Charleston: Bust of Stonewall Jackson (1959)
Harpers Ferry: Hayward Shepherd Monument (1931). Although Shepherd was a black freeman killed in John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, the monument was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). They called the project the "Faithful Slave Memorial" for many years and saw it as a way to emphasize their idea that blacks enjoyed being slaves and that men like Shepherd were victims of those seeking to free slaves. [262]
Hinton: Confederate Soldier Monument (1914)
Lewisburg: Confederate Monument (1906)
Mingo: Confederate Monument (1913/ 2013)
Union: Monroe CountyConfederate Soldier Monument (1901)
Parkersburg: Confederate Soldier Monument (1908)
[ Per wikipedia .. according to this site there are a lot more in WV: sites.google.com
And wikipedia is wrong .. there is ONE monument for WVian Union Army veterans:
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This is on the state capitol grounds and is dedicated as follows: "In Memory of the thirty-two thousand soldiers, sailors and marines, contributed West Virginia to the service of the Union during the Civil War. 1861 - 1865." ]
So 32K WVians fought for the Union and they have ONE monument while Confederates have a LOT of monuments in a state that separated from VA over secession.
Arizona had one minor skirmish between a troop of Confederates and Union troops.
It has no Union memorials but three Confederate ones. The oldest one was established in 1999. Repeat, 1999.
Monuments[ edit] Phoenix:Arizona Confederate Veterans Monument in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery in Phoenix, erected in 1999 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans [55]Arizona Confederate Veterans Monument in Wesley Bolin Park, next to the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy [55] Sierra Vista: Confederate Memorial in the Historical Soldiers Memorial Cemetery area of the Southern Arizona Veterans' Cemetery in Sierra Vista. The monument was erected in 2010 to honor the twenty-one soldiers interred in that cemetery who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and later fought in Indian wars in Arizona as members of the U.S. Army. [56] Tuscon: Sign, plaque and monument which commemorates the Battle of Picacho Pass and in one case only honors the Confederate troops and includes a Stars and Bars flag. [57]
Massachusetts had a LOT of troops that fought for the Union. It has three Union and one Confederate memorials.
Civil War Memorial (Webster, Massachusetts)
Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Boston)
Soldiers' Monument (Worcester, Massachusetts)
Fort Warren, Georges Island, Boston Harbor: Confederate memorial to 13 Confederate prisoners who died in captivity. (Dedicated in 1963). [150]
Kentucky - two thirds of Kentuckians who fought in the Civil War fought for the Union. There are 8 Union and 38 Confederate monuments:
Union Monument in Perryville, in Perryville Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort, in Frankfort, Kentucky's Green Hill Cemetery, one of only four monuments to black soldiers that participated in the American Civil War GAR Monument in Covington 32nd Indiana Monument, the oldest surviving memorial to the Civil War Veteran's Monument in Covington, one of only two monuments in Kentucky to both Union and Confederate war dead Union Monument in Vanceburg Captain Andrew Offutt Monument Battle of Tebb's Bend Monument, includes a historical marker from state of Michigan, commemorating the Union soldiers, mostly immigrants from the Netherlands, who were given battle orders in Dutch
Confederate Monument in Augusta, Augusta, Kentucky Confederate Monument of Bardstown, Bardstown, Kentucky Confederate Monument of Bowling Green, Bowling Green, Kentucky Confederate Monument, Cadiz, Kentucky Confederate Monument at Crab Orchard, Crab Orchard, Kentucky Confederate Monument in Cynthiana, Cynthiana, Kentucky Confederate Monument in Danville, Danville, Kentucky Confederate Soldiers Martyrs Monument, Eminence, Kentucky Confederate Monument in Frankfort, Frankfort, Kentucky Confederate Memorial in Fulton, Fulton, Kentucky Confederate Monument in Georgetown, Georgetown, Kentucky Confederate Monument in Glasgow, Glascow, Kentucky Confederate Monument in Harrodsburg, Harrodsburg, Kentucky Confederate Memorial Fountain, Hopkinsville, Kentucky Latham Confederate Monument, Hopkinsville, Kentucky Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument, Horse Cave, Kentucky Confederate Martyrs Monument, Jeffersontown, Kentucky Confederate Monument in Lawrenceburg, Lawrenceburg, Kentucky John C. Breckinridge Memorial, at Fayette County Courthouse, Lexington, Kentucky [142] John Hunt Morgan Memorial, at Fayette County Courthouse, Lexington, Kentucky [142] Ladies' Confederate Memorial, in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Kentucky Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington, in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Kentucky Confederate Monument in Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. This Confederate statue was dedicated in 1895 and was placed next to the University of Louisville on city property. It was removed and re-located to a riverfront park in Brandenburg, Kentuckyin December 2016. [143] Confederate Monument in Madisonville, Madisonville, Kentucky Confederate Memorial in Mayfield, Mayfield, Kentucky Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield, Mayfield, Kentucky Martyrs Monument, Midway, Kentucky Confederate Monument of Morganfield, Morganfield, Kentucky Confederate Monument of Mt. Sterling, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky Confederate Monument, Murray, Kentucky Confederate Monument in Owensboro, Owensboro, Kentucky Confederate Monument in Owingsville, Owingsville, Kentucky Confederate Monument in Paducah, Paducah, Kentucky Bourbon County Confederate Monument, Paris, Kentucky Confederate Monument in Perryville, Perryville, Kentucky Confederate Monument in Russellville, Russellville, Kentucky Confederate Mass Grave Monument, Somerset, Kentucky Confederate Monument in Versailles, Versailles, Kentucky
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