The Monticello Confederate Monument stands at the end of the main entrance road to the Oaklawn Cemetery in

Monticello, Arkansas Monticello ( ) is a college town in, and the county seat of, Drew County, Arkansas. As of 2023, it had an estimated population of 8,175. Founded in 1849 in the Arkansas Timberlands near the Arkansas Delta region, the city has long been a comm ...

. It was dedicated in 1915 to the

Confederate A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states united for purposes of common action. Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issu ...

soldiers of

Drew County Drew County is a county located in the southeast region of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,350. The county seat and largest city is Monticello. Drew County was formed on November 26, 1846, and named for ...

who served in the

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and the Confederate States of A ...

. The main sculpture, which is made of marble, depicts a uniformed Confederate soldier carrying a blanket roll, and wearing a scabbard. He stands with both hands on a rifle, whose butt end is on the ground. It measures tall and about square, and stands on a marble base high. It is inscribed as follows: *east side: CSA / TO THE / CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS / OF DREW COUNTY / 1861 - 1865 *north side: ERECTED BY THE / W. F. SLEMONS CHAPTER / U. D. C. / 1914 *south side, beneath a furled flag: FURL THAT BANNER! TRUE, / 'TIS GORY / YET, 'TIS WREATHED AROUND / WITH GLORY, / AND WILL LIVE IN SONG / AND STORY, / THOUGH IT'S FOLDS ARE IN THE DUST. / FATHER RYAN. *west side, beneath crossed sabers: LEST / WE / FORGET The monument was listed on the

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in 1996.

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Buildings and structures completed in 1915 Buildings and structures in Drew County, Arkansas Confederate States of America monuments and memorials in Arkansas Monuments and memorials on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Drew County, Arkansas Neoclassical architecture in Arkansas 1915 establishments in Arkansas {{DrewCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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