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
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1996.
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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
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