Confederate monuments and memorials
Monuments
### Monuments

#### Courthouse monuments

[thumb\|right\|upright\|Tipton County Courthouse, [Covington](/wiki/Covington%2C_Tennessee "Covington, Tennessee")](/wiki/File:Tipton_County_Court_House_Covington_TN_2013-10-13_002.jpg "Tipton County Court House Covington TN 2013-10-13 002.jpg")
[thumb\|right\|upright\|Confederate Monument "Chip", [Franklin](/wiki/Franklin%2C_Tennessee "Franklin, Tennessee")](/wiki/File:Confederate_Monument%2C_Franklin%2C_Tennessee.jpg "Confederate Monument, Franklin, Tennessee.jpg")
[thumb\|right\|Confederate Women monument, Nashville](/wiki/File:Confederate_Women_monument%2C_Nashville_TN%2C_USA.jpg "Confederate Women monument, Nashville TN, USA.jpg")
* [Benton](/wiki/Benton%2C_Tennessee "Benton, Tennessee"): Confederate memorial (2009\)
* [Blountville](/wiki/Blountville%2C_Tennessee "Blountville, Tennessee"): Confederate Memorial (1928\)
* [Bolivar](/wiki/Bolivar%2C_Tennessee "Bolivar, Tennessee"): Monument to the Memory of Fallen Confederate Sons (1873\)
* [Brownsville](/wiki/Brownsville%2C_Tennessee "Brownsville, Tennessee"): Confederate Memorial (1909\)
* [Carthage](/wiki/Carthage%2C_Tennessee "Carthage, Tennessee"):
	+ Smith County Confederate Monument
	+ Smith County War Memorial (1976\)
* [Charlotte](/wiki/Charlotte%2C_Tennessee "Charlotte, Tennessee"):
	+ Confederate Monument (2001\): "Confederate Veterans Memorial honoring those from Dickson County who served the CSA."
	+ Confederate Veterans Memorial (2012\) "honoring gallant soldiers, veterans and their families."
* [Cleveland](/wiki/Cleveland%2C_Tennessee "Cleveland, Tennessee"): [United Daughters of the Confederacy Monument](/wiki/United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy_Monument_%28Cleveland%2C_Tennessee%29 "United Daughters of the Confederacy Monument (Cleveland, Tennessee)") (1911\)
* [Cookeville](/wiki/Cookeville%2C_Tennessee "Cookeville, Tennessee"): Eternal Flame, honors all Putnam County veterans
* [Covington](/wiki/Covington%2C_Tennessee "Covington, Tennessee"): Confederate Monument (1895\)
* [Decaturville](/wiki/Decaturville%2C_Tennessee "Decaturville, Tennessee"): Confederate Monument
* [Dover](/wiki/Dover%2C_Tennessee "Dover, Tennessee"): [Fort Donelson](/wiki/Fort_Donelson "Fort Donelson"). The Confederate fort was named for CSA General [Daniel Smith Donelson](/wiki/Daniel_Smith_Donelson "Daniel Smith Donelson") but captured by Union General Grant in 1862, who retained the Fort's name saying "Fort Donelson will hereafter be marked in Capitals on the maps of our United Country..." Also contains Confederate Monument donated by United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1933\.
* [Dresden](/wiki/Dresden%2C_Tennessee "Dresden, Tennessee"): [Weakley County](/wiki/Weakley_County%2C_Tennessee "Weakley County, Tennessee") Confederate Monument (1915\)
* [Dyersburg](/wiki/Dyersburg%2C_Tennessee "Dyersburg, Tennessee"):
	+ Confederate Monument (1905\)
	+ United Confederate Veterans Civil War Plaques (1926\)
* [Erwin](/wiki/Erwin%2C_Tennessee "Erwin, Tennessee"): War Memorial
* [Fayetteville](/wiki/Fayetteville%2C_Tennessee "Fayetteville, Tennessee"):
	+ Civil War Memorial in memory of the three thousand Confederate soldiers of Lincoln County (1906\)
	+ Women's Monument to those who kept up the responsibilities of farms and businesses during the Civil War (1904\)
* [Franklin](/wiki/Franklin%2C_Tennessee "Franklin, Tennessee"): ["Our Confederate Soldiers" Monument](/wiki/Confederate_monument_%28Franklin%2C_Tennessee%29 "Confederate monument (Franklin, Tennessee)") (1899\), UDC monument known locally as "Chip" memorializes soldiers who died in the [Battle of Franklin](/wiki/Battle_of_Franklin_%281864%29 "Battle of Franklin (1864)"). Since by state law it cannot be removed, the city of Franklin, with "broad support", wants to install historic markers "depicting the experience of the African\-Americans before, during, and after the Civil War." The UDC opposes this, claiming ownership of the Public Square. As of December 2018, the issue is in litigation.
* [Greeneville](/wiki/Greeneville%2C_Tennessee "Greeneville, Tennessee"): [John Hunt Morgan](/wiki/John_Hunt_Morgan "John Hunt Morgan") Memorial
* [Jackson](/wiki/Jackson%2C_Tennessee "Jackson, Tennessee"): "Our Confederate Dead" Monument (1888\)
* [Lafayette](/wiki/Lafayette%2C_Tennessee "Lafayette, Tennessee"): [Macon County](/wiki/Macon_County%2C_Tennessee "Macon County, Tennessee") Confederate Monument (2001\)
* [Lebanon](/wiki/Lebanon%2C_Tennessee "Lebanon, Tennessee"):
	+ 1901 monument to the Confederacy
	+ 2011 memorial to those from the County who served in the [Army of Tennessee](/wiki/Army_of_Tennessee "Army of Tennessee").
	+ General [Robert Hopkins Hatton](/wiki/Robert_Hopkins_Hatton "Robert Hopkins Hatton") marker (1912\)
* [Lewisburg](/wiki/Lewisburg%2C_Tennessee "Lewisburg, Tennessee"): Confederate Soldier Monument (1904\)
* [Manchester](/wiki/Manchester%2C_Tennessee "Manchester, Tennessee"): Erected 1991 by [United Daughters of the Confederacy](/wiki/United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy "United Daughters of the Confederacy").
* [McMinnville](/wiki/McMinnville%2C_Tennessee "McMinnville, Tennessee"): Warren County Civil War Memorial (2004\)
* [Murfreesboro](/wiki/Murfreesboro%2C_Tennessee "Murfreesboro, Tennessee"):
	+ Rutherford County Confederate Memorial (1901\)
	+ Rutherford County Confederate Veterans Memorial (2011\)
	+ Nathan Bedford Forrest Memorial Tablet (1912\)
* [Nashville](/wiki/Nashville%2C_Tennessee "Nashville, Tennessee"): [Tennessee Confederate Women's Monument](/wiki/Tennessee_Confederate_Women%27s_Monument "Tennessee Confederate Women's Monument"), [Belle Kinney Scholz](/wiki/Belle_Kinney_Scholz "Belle Kinney Scholz"), sculptor (1926\)
* [Paris](/wiki/Paris%2C_Tennessee "Paris, Tennessee"): Confederate Monument (1900\)
* [Pulaski](/wiki/Pulaski%2C_Tennessee "Pulaski, Tennessee"): "Rebel Martyr" [Sam Davis](/wiki/Sam_Davis "Sam Davis") Statue (1906\)
* [Savannah](/wiki/Savannah%2C_Tennessee "Savannah, Tennessee"): Confederate Monument (1995\)
* [Selmer](/wiki/Selmer%2C_Tennessee "Selmer, Tennessee"): Confederate Memorial (1994\)
* [Shelbyville](/wiki/Shelbyville%2C_Tennessee "Shelbyville, Tennessee"): Confederate Memorial in Memory of the "Shelbyville Rebels" Company F 41st Tennessee Regiment CSA (1937\)
* [Smithville](/wiki/Smithville%2C_Tennessee "Smithville, Tennessee"): [DeKalb County](/wiki/DeKalb_County%2C_Tennessee "DeKalb County, Tennessee") Confederate Monument (1996\)
* [Spencer](/wiki/Spencer%2C_Tennessee "Spencer, Tennessee"): Confederate Monument (1988\)
* [Springfield](/wiki/Springfield%2C_Tennessee "Springfield, Tennessee"): Confederate Monuments (two monuments) (1997, 2012\)
* [Trenton](/wiki/Trenton%2C_Tennessee "Trenton, Tennessee"): [Oakland Cemetery](/wiki/Oakland_Cemetery_%28Trenton%2C_Tennessee%29 "Oakland Cemetery (Trenton, Tennessee)"): Confederate Monument commissioned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1900 and Confederate marker commissioned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 1990\. Listed on the NRHP. With 
* [Union City](/wiki/Union_City%2C_Tennessee "Union City, Tennessee"): [Confederate Monument](/wiki/Confederate_Monument_%28Union_City%2C_Tennessee%29 "Confederate Monument (Union City, Tennessee)") (1869\)
* [Waynesboro](/wiki/Waynesboro%2C_Tennessee "Waynesboro, Tennessee"): Confederate Monument (2003\)

#### Other public monuments

* [Altamont](/wiki/Altamont%2C_Tennessee "Altamont, Tennessee"): Confederate Memorial (1896\), depicting flags of the Confederacy
* [Beechgrove](/wiki/Beechgrove%2C_Coffee_County%2C_Tennessee "Beechgrove, Coffee County, Tennessee"):
	+ [Nathan Bedford Forrest](/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest "Nathan Bedford Forrest") monument, in Beechgrove Confederate Cemetery.
	+ Memorial to the 20th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry (2008\), in Beechgrove Confederate Cemetery.
* [Centerville](/wiki/Centerville%2C_Tennessee "Centerville, Tennessee"): Confederate Civil War Memorial Plaque
* [Chapel Hill](/wiki/Chapel_Hill%2C_Tennessee "Chapel Hill, Tennessee"): Obelisk with Confederate flag on the site where Nathan Bedford Forrest was born. There is also "a medallion\-shaped monument outside city hall" with a Confederate flag.
* [Chattanooga](/wiki/Chattanooga%2C_Tennessee "Chattanooga, Tennessee"): statue of [Alexander P. Stewart](/wiki/Alexander_P._Stewart "Alexander P. Stewart"), a confederate lieutenant, in front of the [Chattanooga](/wiki/Chattanooga%2C_Tennessee "Chattanooga, Tennessee")/[Hamilton County](/wiki/Hamilton_County%2C_Tennessee "Hamilton County, Tennessee") Courthouse. (1919\) Efforts have been made to remove this statue.
* [Clarksville](/wiki/Clarksville%2C_Tennessee "Clarksville, Tennessee"): Confederate Monument (1893\), Greenwood Cemetery
* [Clifton](/wiki/Clifton%2C_Tennessee "Clifton, Tennessee"): Nathan Bedford Forrest Memorial
* [Columbia](/wiki/Columbia%2C_Tennessee "Columbia, Tennessee"): Confederate "Funeral Rest" Memorial, Rose Hill Cemetery (1882\)
* [Cookeville](/wiki/Cookeville%2C_Tennessee "Cookeville, Tennessee"): Confederate Memorial, Cookeville Cemetery (2004\)
* [Covington](/wiki/Covington%2C_Tennessee "Covington, Tennessee"): Nathan Bedford Forrest Memorial, Tipton County Museum (1998\)
* [Crossville](/wiki/Crossville%2C_Tennessee "Crossville, Tennessee"): Confederate and Union Memorial
* [Denmark](/wiki/Denmark%2C_Tennessee "Denmark, Tennessee"): Britton Lane Confederate Monument (1897\)
* [Dover](/wiki/Dover%2C_Tennessee "Dover, Tennessee"): Confederate Monument, [Fort Donelson](/wiki/Fort_Donelson "Fort Donelson") (1933\)
* [Dyersburg](/wiki/Dyersburg%2C_Tennessee "Dyersburg, Tennessee"): Confederate monument (2004\), Old City Cemetery
* [Erwin](/wiki/Erwin%2C_Tennessee "Erwin, Tennessee"): Confederate Memorial, Ohio Avenue (1903\)
[thumb\|right\|Pyramid of cannonballs commemorate [Patrick Cleburne](/wiki/Patrick_Cleburne "Patrick Cleburne") in Franklin, Tennessee](/wiki/File:Cleburne_Memorial_Franklin_TN.jpg "Cleburne Memorial Franklin TN.jpg")
* [Franklin](/wiki/Franklin%2C_Tennessee "Franklin, Tennessee"): Confederal "Funeral Rest" Memorial, Rose Hill Cemetery
	+ Cannonballs are stacked in a pyramid to commemorate where CSA General [Patrick Cleburne](/wiki/Patrick_Cleburne "Patrick Cleburne") died in the [Battle of Franklin](/wiki/Battle_of_Franklin_%281864%29 "Battle of Franklin (1864)")
* [Gallatin](/wiki/Gallatin%2C_Tennessee "Gallatin, Tennessee"): Confederate Soldiers Monument (1903\)
* [Hamilton County: Chickamauga \& Chattanooga National Military Park](/wiki/Hamilton_County%2C_Tennessee "Hamilton County, Tennessee"). Numerous monuments and memorials to Confederate soldiers and units, as well as Union monuments.
* [Humboldt](/wiki/Humboldt%2C_Tennessee "Humboldt, Tennessee"): Confederate Monument (1900\), Bailey Park
* [Knoxville](/wiki/Knoxville%2C_Tennessee "Knoxville, Tennessee"):
	+ A stone monument was erected in 1914 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy at the corner of 17th Street and Laurel Avenue, in the Fort Sanders neighborhood, defaced in August 2017\.
	+ [Knoxville National Cemetery](/wiki/Knoxville_National_Cemetery "Knoxville National Cemetery")
	+ Monument to the Confederate dead (1892\), Bethel Avenue
	+ [Bleak House](/wiki/Bleak_House_%28Knoxville%2C_Tennessee%29 "Bleak House (Knoxville, Tennessee)"), historical house that was formerly the headquarters of General [James Longstreet](/wiki/James_Longstreet "James Longstreet") and [Lafayette McLaws](/wiki/Lafayette_McLaws "Lafayette McLaws"). It is also known as the Confederate Memorial Hall.
	+ Historical marker, with Confederate flag, in front of [Immaculate Conception Church](/wiki/Church_of_the_Immaculate_Conception%2C_Knoxville%2C_Tennessee "Church of the Immaculate Conception, Knoxville, Tennessee"), for Father [Abram Ryan](/wiki/Abram_Ryan "Abram Ryan"), called "Poet of the Confederacy".
* [Lebanon](/wiki/Lebanon%2C_Tennessee "Lebanon, Tennessee"):
	+ Confederate Memorial Gen. Hatton Statue (1912\)
	+ [Rutherford County](/wiki/Rutherford_County%2C_Tennessee "Rutherford County, Tennessee"): [grounds](/wiki/Rutherford_County_Courthouse_%28Tennessee%29%23Courthouse_grounds "Rutherford County Courthouse (Tennessee)#Courthouse grounds") around the County Courthouse contain a 1901 monument to the Confederacy and a 2011 memorial to those from the County who served in the [Army of Tennessee](/wiki/Army_of_Tennessee "Army of Tennessee").
* [Lynchburg](/wiki/Lynchburg%2C_Tennessee "Lynchburg, Tennessee"): Confederate Veterans Memorial, Moore County Public Square
* [Memphis](/wiki/Memphis%2C_Tennessee "Memphis, Tennessee"):
	+ Monument to Captain J. Harvey Mathes, 37th Tennessee CSA
	+ Confederate Memorial (1878\), Elmwood Cemetery, 824 Dudley Street
* [Mount Pleasant](/wiki/Mount_Pleasant%2C_Tennessee "Mount Pleasant, Tennessee"): Confederate Monument (1907\)
* [Mulberry](/wiki/Mulberry%2C_Tennessee "Mulberry, Tennessee"): Confederate Memorial (1909\)
* [Murfreesboro](/wiki/Murfreesboro%2C_Tennessee "Murfreesboro, Tennessee"): *[Confederate Circle](/wiki/Evergreen_Cemetery_%28Murfreesboro%2C_Tennessee%29%23Confederate_Circle "Evergreen Cemetery (Murfreesboro, Tennessee)#Confederate Circle")* in Evergreen Cemetery was established in 1891 as a memorial to approximately 2,000 Confederate soldiers whose remains were reinterred there.
* [Nashville](/wiki/Nashville%2C_Tennessee "Nashville, Tennessee"):
	+ [Confederate Private Monument](/wiki/Confederate_Private_Monument "Confederate Private Monument") (1909\) in [Centennial Park](/wiki/Centennial_Park_%28Nashville%29 "Centennial Park (Nashville)").
	+ Confederate Gallery, [Ryman Auditorium](/wiki/Ryman_Auditorium "Ryman Auditorium")
	+ [Mount Olivet Cemetery](/wiki/Mount_Olivet_Cemetery_%28Nashville%29 "Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville)") had a burial and memorial area established by a ladies group shortly after the Civil War which became known as *Confederate Circle*.
	+ [The Hermitage](/wiki/The_Hermitage_%28Nashville%2C_Tennessee%29 "The Hermitage (Nashville, Tennessee)"): UDC monument and gates (1941\) at the Tennessee Confederate Soldiers Cemetery
* [Obion](/wiki/Obion%2C_Tennessee "Obion, Tennessee"): Obion Veterans Memorial, honoring those who were killed in service and were MIA\-POW in Civil War, World Wars I \& II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Afghanistan and Iraq (2006\)
* [Parkers Crossroads](/wiki/Parkers_Crossroads%2C_Tennessee "Parkers Crossroads, Tennessee"):
	+ Freeman's Battery (2002\)
	+ Morton's Battery (2007\)
* [Pulaski](/wiki/Pulaski%2C_Tennessee "Pulaski, Tennessee"):
	+ Seventh Kentucky Mounted Infantry Memorial (1911\)
	+ Confederate subsection with a Confederate monument dedicated by the [United Daughters of the Confederacy](/wiki/United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy "United Daughters of the Confederacy") in 1913, [Maplewood Cemetery](/wiki/Maplewood_Cemetery_%28Pulaski%2C_Tennessee%29 "Maplewood Cemetery (Pulaski, Tennessee)").
* [Santa Fe](/wiki/Santa_Fe%2C_Tennessee "Santa Fe, Tennessee"): Memorial plaque to Maury \[County] Light Artillery (Confederate), public square.
* [Tazewell](/wiki/Tazewell%2C_Tennessee "Tazewell, Tennessee"): Confederate memorial (2000\) honoring unknown Confederate dead; located in Irish Memorial Cemetery.
* [Trimble](/wiki/Trimble%2C_Tennessee "Trimble, Tennessee"): Cemetery Ridge Memorial Plaza, honoring Merion Spence Parks and Williams Hamilton Parks II, members of UDC and SCV respectively (2012\)
* [Union City](/wiki/Union_City%2C_Tennessee "Union City, Tennessee")
	+ Confederate Monument, [Kiwanis](/wiki/Kiwanis "Kiwanis") Park (1909\)
	+ Confederate Monument to Unknown Soldiers, Old Soldiers' Cemetery, Summer Street at Edwards Street (1869\)
* [Winchester](/wiki/Winchester%2C_Tennessee "Winchester, Tennessee")
	+ UDC Memorial to Confederate soldiers (1950\), City Cemetery
	+ SCV Memorial to Confederate soldiers (2003\), Confederate Cemetery, adjoining the City Cemetery"
* [Woodbury](/wiki/Woodbury%2C_Tennessee "Woodbury, Tennessee"): 1926 monument "honors all confederate soldiers and marks the spot where CSA Lt. Col. John B. Hutchenson was killed."

#### Private monuments

* [Nashville](/wiki/Nashville%2C_Tennessee "Nashville, Tennessee")
	+ [Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue](/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest_Statue "Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue"), made of [fiberglass](/wiki/Fiberglass "Fiberglass") over foam, 25 feet high, on private land near [Interstate 65](/wiki/Interstate_65 "Interstate 65"), installed in 1998, built with private money. It is surrounded by [Confederate battle flags](/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_flag%23The_vernacular_%22Confederate_flag%22 "Modern display of the Confederate flag#The vernacular "), constituting what the owner calls "Confederate Flag Park." (No government recognizes it as a park, and the entrance is chained shut with a "[No Trespassing](/wiki/Trespassing "Trespassing")" sign.) The giant statue is visible from the highway to anyone entering the city from the south. It has been called "hideous" and "ridiculous." There have been numerous calls for its removal. Tennessee Governor [Bill Haslam](/wiki/Bill_Haslam "Bill Haslam") said: "It's not a statue that I like and \[ [sic](/wiki/Sic "Sic") ] that most Tennesseans are proud of in any way." Former Nashville Mayor [Megan Barry](/wiki/Megan_Barry "Megan Barry") called the statue "an offensive display of hatred." In 2015, Nashville's Metro Council voted to petition the [Tennessee Department of Transportation](/wiki/Tennessee_Department_of_Transportation "Tennessee Department of Transportation") to plant obscuring vegetation; the Department declined, because it is private land. ("Never mind that the T.D.O.T. itself removed the obscuring vegetation back in 1998, when the statue was first erected.") There has been occasional vandalism; in December 2017 it was covered in "pussy\-hat pink" paint, which Bill Dorris, current owner of the land, says he intends to leave. He also said that if trees are planted to block the view from I\-65, he "would make the statue taller." It was sculpted, at no charge, by notorious racist [Jack Kershaw](/wiki/Jack_Kershaw "Jack Kershaw"), an attorney for [Martin Luther King's murderer](/wiki/James_Earl_Ray "James Earl Ray"), famous for having said "Somebody needs to say a good word for [slavery](/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States "Slavery in the United States")."

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