The Confederate Soldiers Monument is a monument to the soldiers from St. Clair County, Alabama who fought for the

Confederate States of America The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States or the Confederacy was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. The Confeder ...

(CSA) during the

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ...

. It was funded by 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, ...

(UDC) and was dedicated April 23, 1923, on the grounds of the St. Clair County courthouse in

Ashville, Alabama Ashville is a city in and one of the county seats of St. Clair County, Alabama, United States, other seat being Pell City. Its population was 2,212 at the 2010 census, down from 2,260, at which time it was a town. It incorporated in 1822. Hist ...

. The monument includes a larger than life-sized marble statue of a CSA soldier placed on top of a 10-foot-tall stone base. The soldier is standing at rest, holding a rifle, the stock of which is placed on the base by the soldier's foot. The rifle has been replaced at least once. The inscription on the base reads in part, "TO THE HONOR OF ST. CLAIR CO. CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS ERECTED BY THEIR DESCENDANTS, THROUGH ASHVILLE CHAPTER U.D.C. 1923". A version of the CSA battle flag is carved on the front.Widener, Ralph W. Jr. ''Confederate Monuments: Enduring Symbols of the South and the War Between the States'', Washington D.C.: Andromeda Associates and Ralph W. Widner, Jr., Ph.D., 1982, p. 1.

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