The Lake Village Confederate Monument is located on the median of Lakeshore Drive, between Main and Jackson Streets in

Lake Village, Arkansas Lake Village is a city in and the county seat of Chicot County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 2,575 at the 2010 census. It is located in the Arkansas Delta. Lake Village is named for its location on Lake Chicot, an oxbow lake for ...

. The marble monument 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 standing in mid stride with his left foot forward. His right hand holds the barrel of a rifle, whose butt rests on the monument base. He carries a bedroll draped over his left shoulder, and wears a Confederate cap. A cannon that served as a fountain was once part of the sculpture, but is now missing. The statue is about high and square; it rests on a marble foundation that is long, wide, and high. The monument was erected in 1910 by two chapters 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, ...

at a cost of about $3,000. The base has inscriptions on its east and west faces. The east face, or rear, reads "Erected by the / Captain McConnell / and / George K. Cracraft / Chapters, U.D.C. / A.D. 1910 / And chicot county / We care not whence / They came, / Dear in lifeless clay / Whether unknown or known to fame / Their cause and country still the same / They died and wore the gray. / Father Ryan." The west face, or front, reads "1861-1865 CSA / To the confederate of Chicot / Country, the record of whose sublime / Self sacrifice and undying devotion / Is the proud heritage / Of a loyal posterity." The monument was listed on the

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in 1996.

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{{reflist 1910 sculptures Buildings and structures in Chicot County, Arkansas Lake Village, Arkansas Monuments and memorials on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Chicot County, Arkansas United Daughters of the Confederacy monuments and memorials in Arkansas 1910 establishments in Arkansas

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