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 (CSA), 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.
, there are at least 201 public spaces with Confederate monuments in Georgia.
State capitol
Statue of John Brown Gordon, Georgia State Capitol grounds (1907). "One of the leading proponents of both the New South creed and the Lost Cause, a philosophy that greatly romanticized the South's role in the war. Moreover, he is generally acknowledged as having been the head of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia. Statue of Benjamin Harvey Hill, Confederate Senator, Georgia State Capitol. Statue of Elizabeth and Joseph E. Brown. "Brown was the Confederate governor of Georgia and after the war served as [U.S.] senator. He also was an ardent secessionist. After the war, Brown served briefly as chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court and authored an opinion upholding the state's ban on interracial marriage that described such marriages as 'productive of evil, and evil only, without any corresponding good.'... That opinion was cited in several briefs in the Supreme Court's recent decision on gay marriage as an example of how government has consistently erred in defining marriage." Plaque and tree honoring William Ambrose Wright, a lieutenant in the Confederate States Army, and Georgia state comptroller for fifty years, as well as insurance commissioner. Erected by the Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association, January 19, 1930.
State flag
The current (2024) Georgia flag is based on the first national flag of the Confederacy, which was nicknamed the "Stars and Bars".
State holiday Confederate Memorial Day, celebrated the last Monday in April, but officially called only "State Holiday".
Stone Mountain (state monument)
Stone Mountain is owned by the state of Georgia. When Georgia purchased the site, "it was designated as a memorial to the Confederacy". The Stone Mountain Park officially opened on April 14, 1965 – 100 years to the day after Lincoln's assassination. Site of the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan (the Second Clan), on the top of the mountain, with cross burning, in 1915. Stone Mountain was the location of an annual Labor Day cross-burning ceremony for the next 50 years. In 2019 it is the most-visited attraction in the state of Georgia. Four flags of the Confederacy are flown. The Stone Mountain Memorial Lawn "contains...thirteen terraces — one for each Confederate state.... Each terrace flies the flag that the state flew as member of the Confederacy." Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Carving, 1923–72, the largest such carving in the world.
Buildings Athens: Allen D. Candler Hall at the University of Georgia (1901) Athens: Joseph E. Brown Hall at the University of Georgia (1932)
Monuments Courthouse monuments
Blakely: Confederate Flagpole, Early County Courthouse (1861) Butler: Taylor County Confederate Monument (1911) Cairo: Confederate Soldier Monument and Flag, Grady County Courthouse Carnesville: Franklin County Confederate Monument (1910) Carrollton: Confederate Monument (1910) Cartersville: Confederate memorial at the Bartow County Courthouse Cedartown: Polk County Confederate Monument (1906) Clayton: Confederate Flag, Rabun County Courthouse Conyers: Confederate Monument (1913) Covington: Confederate War Memorial (1906) Crawfordville: Confederate Monument (1898) Cusseta: Confederate Veterans Monument Decatur: DeKalb County Confederate Monument, Decatur Square, in front of Old DeKalb County Courthouse. The monument, erected 1911, antedates the Square and also antedates the Old Courthouse. Residents are petitioning for its removal. The County Commission of DeKalb County voted 6-1 to ask its attorneys to find a legal way to remove or relocate it. Douglasville: Confederate War Memorial (1914) Dublin: Laurens County Confederate Monument (1912) Eastman: Confederate Monument of Eastman (1910) Eatonton: Birthplace of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1936) Ellaville: Schley County Confederate Monument (1910) Forsyth: Confederate Monument (1907) Greensboro: Greene County Confederate Monument (1898) Hartwell: Confederate Monument (1908) Hawkinsville: Confederate Monument (1908) Hazlehurst: Jefferson Davis Bust Hinesville: Liberty County Confederate Monument, Liberty County Courthouse (1928) Jackson: Monument to Butts County Confederate Soldiers (1911) Jeffersonville: A shaft called Shannon's Meadow, in front of Twiggs County Courthouse. Lawrenceville: Lawrenceville Confederate Memorial (1990) Lexington: Oglethorpe County Confederate Monument (1916) Lumpkin: Stewart County Confederate Monument (1908), included in Lumpkin Commercial Historic District Macon: "Women of the South" (1911), UDC monument featuring a young soldier receiving aid from a mother and young girl, as well as a bas-relief showing both a pre-war family, and one devastated by war. Moved from city hall to a nearby park in 1934. McDonough: Confederate Memorial Drinking Fountain (1915) Millen: Jenkins County Confederate Monument, Jenkins County Courthouse (1909) Monroe: Confederate Monument (1907) Moultrie: Colquitt County Confederate Monument, Colquitt County Courthouse (1909) Mount Vernon: Confederate Monument, Montgomery County Courthouse (1997) Nashville: Confederate Memorial, Berrien County Courthouse Newnan. Located at the original County Courthouse, now the Coweta County Probate Court. Coweta County Confederate Monument. Erected 1885 by the Ladies Memorial Association; cost $2,000. A uniformed Confederate soldier stands on picket duty, holding his musket by the barrel on his proper right side, the butt of which rests by his proper right foot. The soldier wears a hat and a short cloak over a knee-length jacket. Inscription: "Our Confederate dead, / whom power could not corrupt, / whom death could not terrify, / whom defeat could not dishonor. // (Back of base) It is not in mortals / to command success. / But they did more, deserved it." Marker for Confederate Hospitals, on Courthouse Square (1955). Text: "In Newnan between 1862 and 1865 were seven Confederate hospitals — Bragg, Buckner, "College Temple", "Coweta House," Foard, Gamble and Pinson's Springs. More than 10,000 Confederate sick and wounded and about 200 Federal soldiers wounded in the Battle of Brown's Mill were cared for in these hospitals and in private homes. The hospitals were directed and supervised by Samuel H. Stout, Army Medical Director Department of Tennessee. Loyal men and women of the county rendered valuable aid." Ocilla: Irwin County Confederate Monument (1911) Oglethorpe: Confederate Monument, Courthouse lawn (1923) "Erected by the Oglethorpe Chapter of the UDC in 1924. It consists of a block of Ga marble flanked by marble globes surmounted by a third globe (surrounded by a fence), sits near the courthouse, date on monument is February 20, 1993, but newspaper establishes date of dedication as April 26, 1924. Originally, it was built with a fountain near an old artesian well in the intersection of highway 49 and Sumpter Street and moved to the present site around 1935." Perry: Houston County Confederate Monument (1908) Quitman: Confederate memorial, Brooks County Courthouse Sparta: Hancock County Confederate Monument (1881) Statesboro: Confederate Memorial, Bulloch County Courthouse (1906) Thomaston: At Arms Rest Monument, Upson County Courthouse (1908) First Cannon Ball Monument, Upson County Courthouse (1919) Thomson: McDuffie and Columbia Counties Confederate Monument, McDuffie County Courthouse (1986) Toccoa: Stephens County Confederate Monument, county courthouse (1922) Valdosta: Confederate memorial, Lowdnes County Courthouse (1911) Vienna: Dooly County Confederate Monument, county courthouse (1908) Warrenton: Warren County Confederate Monument, county courthouse (1904) Washington: The Dissolution of the Confederate Government/Last Meeting Stone, Wilkes County Courthouse (1938) Watkinsville: Confederate monument (1927); first erected in Watkinsville City Park Wrightsville: Jefferson Davis Highway Marker located in front of the Johnson County Courthouse Wrightsville - Confederate Soldier memorial by Sons of Confederate Veterans
Other public monuments
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 monument is a copy of the Lion of Lucerne. The statue was carved by T. M. Brady, who owned the Georgia Marble Finishing Works in Canton. Surrounded by the bodies of an estimated 3,000 unnamed Confederate soldiers, it was commissioned by the Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association and dedicated on Confederate Memorial Day in 1894." In 2019, the city of Atlanta added a marker contextualizing its continued placement on state-owned property. The face of the Georgia monument was destroyed by protesters during the first week of June 2020. On August 18, 2021, the statue was removed due to frequent vandalism. Peachtree Battle Avenue Monument (1935), a stone-engraved memorial commemorating the Battle of Peachtree Creek (1864). Because state law prohibits its removal, a panel was added in 2019 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, on August 13, 2017. A committee set up by then-Mayor Kasim Reed in 2017 recommended it be removed. Since state law prohibits removal, a "contextual" panel was added in 2019, stating that the monument "excludes all African Americans, of which nearly 200,000 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."