The first Confederate monument at Gettysburg battlefield was dedicated in 1884 to the 1st Maryland Battalion. It took years for the next Confederate monument to follow. 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. They dictated rules that discouraged the meaningful placement of Confederate monuments. An effort by the War Department to mark the locations of Confederate regiments failed due to lack of participation and even active opposition by surviving Confederate veterans.
As time went on the importance of the Battle of Gettysburg was understood. A spirit of reconciliation brought 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. The last Confederate state monument, that of Tennessee, was not dedicated until 1982. Maryland, whose monument is dedicated to its troops who fought on both sides, was erected in 1994.
Confederate State Monuments
Twelve state monuments at Gettysburg honor Confederate soldiers, including Maryland, which honors men of the state from both sides. All of the Confederate state monuments except Maryland can be found along West and South Confederate Avenues.
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Confederate Unit Monuments
The monument to the Confederate 2nd Maryland was dedicated as far back as 1884, but since then only a small handful of Confederate unit monuments have been erected at Gettysburg. The majority of these – the 11th Mississippi and 26th North Carolina count as two each – were placed after 1980.
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Other Confederate Monuments
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The Monument to the Soldiers and Sailors of the Confederacy
honors all the Confederate fighting men in the Civil War. |
The War Department failed in the early 1900s in its attempt to mark Confederate regiments at Gettysburg. But it did place almost 200 markers showing the location of the headquarters of every Confederate Artillery Battalion, Infantry Brigade, Division, and Corps, as well as every Confederate artillery battery. Here are links to all of these markers:
Confederate Headquarters Markers
Confederate Artillery Battery Markers