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The Memorial to the Confederate Dead is a
Confederate Confederacy or confederate may refer to: States or communities * Confederate state or confederation, a union of sovereign groups or communities * Confederate States of America, a confederation of secessionist American states that existed between 1 ...
memorial in
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. Around 1899, the Ladies’ Confederate Monument Association began raising funds to erect a monument in
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to soldiers who had fought against the United States. After some $23,000 ($ today) was raised, mostly from 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 installed in Forest Park, the city's largest park. It was dedicated on December 4, 1914. It was rededicated in 1964 on its 50th anniversary. In 2015, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay launched an effort to have the monument removed. He appointed a committee of business and civic interests, which later that year recommended its removal. in June 2017, the monument was removed from Forest Park, one of at least 36 Confederate memorials removed that year from locations around the country. As of 2022, it awaits a new home outside St. Louis City and County limits, per an agreement between the city and Missouri Civil War Museum in Jefferson Barracks.


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List of Confederate monuments and memorials In the United States, the public display of Confederate monuments, memorials and symbols has been and continues to be controversial. The following is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials that were established as public displays and symb ...
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Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials More than 100 monuments and memorials to the Confederate States of America (CSA; the Confederacy) and associated figures have been removed, all but five since 2015. Some have been removed by state and local governments; others have been torn do ...


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