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The Arkadelphia Confederate Monument is located on the grounds of the Clark County Courthouse in
Arkadelphia, Arkansas Arkadelphia is a city in Clark County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,714. The city is the county seat of Clark County. It is situated at the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains. Two universities, Henderson ...
. The sculpture, which depicts a
Confederate Army The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting ...
soldier, was carved from Italian marble, and is mounted on a base of
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marble. It was designed and executed by R. P. Phillips in 1911, with funding from the local chapter of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is an American neo-Confederate hereditary association for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers engaging in the commemoration of these ancestors, the funding of monuments to them, ...
. The monument was listed on the
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in 1996.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Clark County, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Clark County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Arkansas, United Stat ...


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Buildings and structures completed in 1911 Buildings and structures in Arkadelphia, Arkansas Monuments and memorials on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Arkansas Neoclassical architecture in Arkansas United Daughters of the Confederacy monuments and memorials in Arkansas 1911 establishments in Arkansas {{ClarkCountyAR-NRHP-stub