page_title: List of Confederate monuments and memorials in Georgia
section_title: Other public monuments
hierarchical_section_title: List of Confederate monuments and memorials in Georgia / Monuments / Other public monuments
caption_attribution_description: English: Cordele, Crisp County, Georgia
context_page_description: Note: This is a sublist of List of Confederate monuments and memorials from the Georgia section.
  This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials in Georgia that were established as public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America, Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War. Part of the commemoration of the American Civil War, these symbols include monuments and statues, flags, holidays and other observances, and the names of schools, roads, parks, bridges, counties, cities, lakes, dams, military bases, and other public works.
  This list does not include items which are largely historic in nature such as historic markers or battlefield parks if they were not established to honor the Confederacy. Nor does it include figures connected with the origins of the Civil War or white supremacy, but not with the Confederacy.
  Georgia has a statute making it difficult to remove Confederate monuments because it is unlawful to damage, relocate or remove any memorials honoring any military personnel of the state or USA or the Confederate States of America.
context_section_description: Abbeville: Confederate Memorial Monument (1909)
  Americus: Confederate Monument (1900)
  Andersonville: Andersonville National Historic Site: Monument to Henry Wirz, Commander of the Confederate prison, Camp Sumter, at Andersonville, "where approximately thirteen thousand Union troops...died of disease, starvation, and exposure." Erected by UDC in 1909.
  Athens: Athens Confederate Monument (1872)
  Atlanta
  Jefferson Davis Highway Marker, on East College Avenue near South McDonough St. Marked U.D.C. (United Daughters of the Confederacy), June 12, 1931.
  CSA Brig. Gen. Alfred Iverson Jr. Monument
  Oakland Cemetery
  Confederate obelisk, inscribed "Our Confederate Dead 1873", in the Confederate section of the cemetery. Made of Stone Mountain granite, it is the tallest object in the Cemetery. In 2019 the city decided to add e marker contextualizing its continued placement on state-owned property.
  Lion of the Confederacy, also known as the Lion of Atlanta, inscribed "Unknown Confederate Dead". Created to memorialize "the lost cause".... "The Lion is actually a locally made copy of the Lion of Lucerne, a memorial to hundreds of Swiss Guards who died in the service of a much different but equally lost cause: defending the royal family in Paris during the French Revolution." Mark Twain called it (the Lion of Lucerne) "the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world." "Carved by T. M. Brady, who owned the Georgia Marble Finishing Works in Canton." It is surrounded by "the remains of 3,000 unknown Confederate dead.... It was commissioned by the Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association and dedicated on Confederate Memorial Day in 1894." In 2019 the city decided to add marker contextualizing its continued placement on state-owned property. Its intricately carved face was smashed by rioters during the first week of June 2020.
  Peachtree Battle Avenue Monument (1935), a stone-engraved memorial commemorating the Battle of Peachtree Creek (1864). Because state law prohibits its removal, to provide "context", in 2019 a panel was added saying: "[The monument] describes the United States after the civil war as a perfected nation. This ignores the segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans and others that still existed in 1935."
  Peace Monument (1911), Allen George Newman, sculptor, inside the 14th Street gate of Piedmont Park. Features a winged goddess declaring "Cease Firing – Peace Is Proclaimed," to a Confederate soldier holding a rifle. Defaced by protestors after the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally, August 13, 2017. A committee set up by then-Mayor Kasim Reed in 2017 recommended it be removed. Since state law prohibits this, the decision was made in 2019 to add a "contextual" panel, pointing out that the monument ignores the 200,000 African Americans that have served in the U.S. Army.
  Rhodes Hall, formerly a private mansion, features a set of stained-glass windows entitled "The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy."
  W.H.T. Walker Monument, on the spot where he was shot and killed by a Union sniper. At intersection of Wilkinson Drive and Glenwood Avenue. One half mile to the west, at the intersection of Monument and McPherson Avenues, is a memorial erected by the U.S. Army for Major General John B. McPherson on the spot at which he was killed by Confederate forces on the same day (July 22, 1864, during the Battle of Atlanta).
  Westview Cemetery Memorial. Marks the site of the Battle of Ezra Church. A soldier on an obelisk, above two small stone cannons and cannonballs. Inscribed "Nation shall not lift sword against nation" (Isaiah 2:4). Confederate flag flown, along with U.S. and Georgia flags.
  Eternal Flame of the Confederacy Monument (1939), a pre-Civil War gas streetlamp that was part of the Atlanta premiere of the film Gone with the Wind, now at the Atlanta History Center. Its plaque reads: 
  The Gate City Guard was "a Confederate-era city militia". The streetlamp was originally located at the corner of Alabama and Whitehall (now Peachtree) Streets, and was moved several times prior to its installation in Underground Atlanta. 
caption: Crisp County Confederate Monument, Cordele
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