The Confederate Memorial Gateway in

Hickman, Kentucky Hickman is a city in and the county seat of Fulton County, Kentucky, Fulton County, Kentucky, United States. Located on the Mississippi River, the city had a population of 2,365 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census and is classifie ...

is a historic cemetery gateway in

Fulton County, Kentucky Fulton County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Kentucky, with the Mississippi River forming its western boundary. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,515. Its county seat is Hickman and its largest city is Fulton. The ...

. It was funded in 1913 by the Private Robert Tyler 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, a ...

.Hickman, Ky.
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in 1997.

Hickman

Due to its presence on the

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, Hickman was placed at a strategic point, and was held by both sides during the

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. It was strongly pro-Confederate during the war, but after the Confederates lost control of the county in 1862, it saw occasional raids by Confederate cavalry.

Description

The Memorial Gateway was designed by Sir Moses Ezekiel, and built by the NcNeal Marble Company of

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. It took ten years and $10,000 (} to construct the granite structure. The back is solid granite and the front has ornamentation. The names of seventy Confederate soldiers are carved on the hoods of the structure. It has a center opening for vehicles, and two side openings for pedestrians. The inscription on its capstone reads: "1861 - Our Heroes - 1865". Due to its size and how long after the war it was built, it was meant more to celebrate the

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instead of mourning it, even though it was built in a cemetery.Brent, Joseph. ''Confederate Memorial Gateway in Hickman NRHP Nomination Form'' (Kentucky Heritage Council, 1997)

National Register of Historic Places

On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty-one different monuments to the

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in Kentucky placed on the

, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky

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. The only other monument on the list that are gateways are the

Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield The Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield are historical monuments at the entrances to Maplewood Cemetery in Mayfield, Kentucky. The monuments were the second monument in Mayfield established by the United Daughters of the Confederacy; the first ...

. One other monument on the list is in Fulton County: the Confederate Memorial in Fulton, located twenty miles to the east in

Fulton, Kentucky Fulton is a home rule-class city in Fulton County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,357 at the 2020 census, down from 2,445 at the 2010 census. It was once known as the "Banana Capital of the World", because 70% of imported ban ...

Gallery

File:Confederate Memorial Gateway in Hickman back.JPG, Back of gateway File:Confederate Memorial Gateway in Hickman far.JPG, Far view of gateway

References

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