Missouri Monuments, in state |
Dedicated |
City |
Notes |
1864? |
Independence, Woodlawn Cemetery |
monument to Confederate dead from “Grinter Farm Fight” |
5/29/1868 |
St. Louis |
Thomas H. Benton monument |
1886 |
Ironton,
St. Marie du Lac Catholic Church |
21st Illinois monument, site of Grant’s headquarters, c. August, 1861 |
1870 |
Kansas City, Chowen Cemetery |
monument to Confederate dead |
5/30/1902 |
Forest Hill (near Kansas City) |
monument to Confederate dead, cost $5,000 funded by Kansas City Chapter, UDC |
1903? |
Lone Jack,
Lone Jack Civil War Museum grounds |
monument to Confederate dead at Battle of Lone Jack |
10/1904 |
Neosho, Neosho Cemetery |
monument to Confederate dead |
10/1/1904 |
Liberty |
monument to Confederate soldiers of Clay county, cost $1,135.20, funded by Capt. P. W. Reddish and “other Confederates of the county” |
6/2/1906 |
Higginsville, Confederate Memorial State Park |
monument to Confederate dead, funded by Missouri Division, UDC |
1912? |
St. Joseph, Mt. Mora Cemetery |
marks mass grave of 300 Confederates, cost $5,000, funded by Sterling Price Chapter, UDC |
1913? |
Carrollton |
Brig. Gen. James Shields monument, funded by Missouri legislature |
12/5/1914 |
St. Louis, Forest Park |
Confederate soldiers and sailors monument, cost est. $35,000, funded by St. Louis Chapter UDC and the Confederate Monument Board |
1923 |
Perryville |
monument to Perry County soldiers (USA) |
1928 |
Wilson’s Creek National Military Park |
monument to Gen. Nathaniel Lyon |
11/15/1931 |
Cape Girardeau, Morgan Oak St. Plaza |
monument to Confederate soldiers and sailors of southeast Missouri, funded by Cape Girardeau Chapter, UDC |
6/3/1935 |
Columbia, courthouse (moved from University of Missouri campus, 1975) |
“Confederate Rock,”
monument to Confederate soldiers of Boone County, funded by
John S. Marmaduke Chapter, UDC |
1953 |
Kansas City, Loose Park |
Battle of Westport site |
1957? |
Centralia, railroad terminal
(moved to Centralia park, 1989) |
|
1957 |
Jefferson City, National Cemetery |
monument to Centralia Massacre
(moved from Centralia with dead) |
7/4/1961 |
Carthage, courthouse |
monument to Battle of Carthage |
4/26/2006 |
West Alton,
Shields-Lincoln Recreation Area |
monument to Confederate POWs |
5/3/2007 |
Jefferson City, Lincoln University |
monument to officers and soldiers of the 62nd and 65th Regiments (USCT), funded by Lincoln University Foundation, Inc. and by private donations |
6/27/2009 |
Waverly |
Gen. Jo Shelby monument |
4/26/2009 |
Harrisonville,
Cass County Justice Center |
monument to Order No. 11 and Missouri’s “Burnt District” |
10/1/2009 |
Sarcoxie |
Unions soldiers and citizens, cost $3,500,
Funded by Eastern Jasper County Historic Site Association |
|
Centralia, Centralia Battlefield |
monument to 39th Missouri (USA) |
|
Fayette, Fayette Cemetery |
monument to Confederate dead, cost $590, funded by Richmond Gray Chapter, UDC |
|
Fredericktown, north of town |
Mine La Motte site |
|
Fredericktown, South Main Street |
monument to Confederate dead |
|
Jefferson City, Clark Avenue |
Sterling Price’s Great Raid |
|
Kansas City, Westport Cemetery |
monument to Confederate dead |
|
Keytesville |
monument to Gen. Sterling Price |
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Kirksville, Forrest-Llewelyn Cemetery |
monument to Confederate dead |
|
Kirksville, Forrest-Llewelyn Cemetery |
monument to Confederate dead |
|
Palmyra, courthouse |
monument to Palmyra Massacre, cost $2,000, funded in part by GAR |
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St. Louis, Benton Park |
Col. Friedrich Franz Hecker monument |
|
St. Louis, Forest Park |
monument to Gen. Franz Sigel, funded by Gen. Franz Sigel Monument Association and by private donations |
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St. Louis, Lyon Park |
monument to Gen. Nathaniel Lyon |
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St. Louis, Lyon Park |
monument to Gen. Nathaniel Lyon |
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St. Louis, Rockhill Road |
U.S. Grant’s Hardscrabble Farm site |
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Wilson’s Creek, Confederate cemetery |
monument to Confederate dead |
Missouri Monuments, out of state |
1899? |
District of Columbia, Statuary Hall, National Capitol |
monument to Missouri congressmen and free-soilers Thomas H. Benton and Frank P. Blair |
1905 |
New Market, Virginia |
monument to Woodson’s Heroes, Co. A, 1st Missouri Cavalry (CSA), funded privately by two survivors |
10/17/1917 |
Vicksburg National Military Park |
commemorates both Union and Confederate Missourians
cost $40,000 |
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Allatoona Pass Battlefield,
Allatoona, Georgia |
1st Missouri Brigade (CSA) |
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Shiloh National Military Park |
commemorates both Union and Confederate Missourians |
|
Vicksburg National Military Park |
monument to 6th Missouri Cavalry (USA) |
