Erected and dedicated in 1914, the Arlington Confederate Monument was located in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. The monument features a central, white female figure representing victory, surrounded by 32 life-sized figures…
One of the first Confederate monuments to even mention slavery and the only one to focus on it specifically, the memorial was dedicated in 1896 to the myth that the enslaved population was content with the institution of slavery. Its carved marble…
This monument raises awareness for Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved women who inherited Lumpkin’s Slave Jail from her enslaver and “husband”, which she rented out to Rev. Colver. This former Jail was transformed into a school for newly freed individuals,…
One of the most notorious slave jails in Richmond. Robert Lumpkin purchased the facilities in 1844, but the jail was built by Bacon Tait from 1830 on, and later leased to Lewis A. Collier, a fellow Richmond slave trader. Robert Lumpkin ran the jail…
The Camp Randall Memorial Arch is a 30 foot tall granite arch at Camp Randall Memorial Park. The arch stands where the old gate to Camp Randall stood. Camp Randall was a civil war training camp and, briefly, a prisoner of war camp. The top of the…
Funded by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and erected In 1909, the North Alton Confederate Cemetery Monument Is a 58 foot tall granite obelisk inscribed with the names of the 1,534 confederate soldiers at the concrete base. These soldiers…
