Confederate Monuments at Gettysburg

The first Confederate monument on the Gettysburg battlefield was dedicated in 1884 to the 1st Maryland Battalion. It took years for the next to follow. The Southern states were impoverished after the war, Gettysburg was a Union victory fought on Union soil, and the battlefield commission was controlled by Union veterans whose rules discouraged the meaningful placement of Confederate monuments.

Soldiers and Sailors  of the Confederacy

Soldiers and Sailors
of the Confederacy

 

As time went on the importance of the battle to history and a spirit of reconciliation combined to bring some southern monuments to this northern field. Many of the veterans who strongly associated with their regiments had passed on by then, so efforts were concentrated in state monuments. Virginia was the first in 1917, but the last Confederate state monument, that of Tennessee, was not dedicated until 1982.

Confederate State monuments

Alabama monument Mississippi monument South Carolina Mmonument

South Carolina

Arkansas monument North Carolina monument Tennesse monument

Tennessee

Florida monument Louisiana monument Texas monument

Texas

Georgia monument

Georgia

Maryland monument

Maryland

Virginia monument

Virginia

Confederate brigade and regimental monuments and marker

4th Alabama

11th Mississippi

43rd North Carolina

2nd Maryland
(1st Maryland Battalion)

26th North Carolina

 Texas Brigade