This list of Confederate monuments and memorials in Virginia includes 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 of a more strictly documentary 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, as distinct from the Confederacy.
, there are at least 239 public spaces with Confederate monuments in Virginia, more than in any other state.
Bridge Abingdon: The John Hunt Morgan Bridge, on East Main St./U.S. 11, is named for a Confederate general. Richmond: The Robert E. Lee Bridge, on U.S. 301
Geological features Rockbridge: The Maury River is named after Matthew Fontaine Maury, who was a Commodore in the Confederate navy.
Highways Lee Highway, various locales retain the name for portions of this former auto trail route. General Mahone Highway, a large portion of U.S. Route 460, between Petersburg and Suffolk. Jefferson Davis Highway, also called Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway. All portions of the highway in the state have been renamed. Jubal Early Highway, a section of Virginia Rt. 116 in Franklin County, Virginia, from Roanoke City to Virginia Route 122 in Franklin County, is named after him. It passes his birthplace, identified by a historical highway marker. In Roanoke County, it is referred to as "JAE Valley Road," incorporating Jubal Anderson Early's initials. John Mosby Highway, the designation for most of U.S. Route 50 in Virginia, with portions also called Lee Highway, in Fairfax and Arlington, or Lee–Jackson Memorial Highway in Chantilly. Stonewall Jackson Highway is a named portion of U.S. Route 340. Magruder Boulevard was a named portion of Virginia route 134, and had its name changed to Neil Armstrong Parkway in July 2021.
Monuments Courthouse monuments Abingdon: Confederate Monument (1907), Frederick William Sievers, sculptor Amelia: Confederate Monument (1905) Amherst: Amherst County Confederate Monument (1922) Appomattox: Confederate Monument (1905) Bedford: Confederate Memorial (1935) Berryville: Confederate Memorial (1900) Bland: Confederate Monument (1911) Boydton: Monument to Confederate Soldiers of Mecklenburg (1908; rededicated in 2002) Buckingham: Monument and cannon dedicated to the Confederate soldiers of Buckingham County. (1908) Charlotte: Charlotte County Confederate Memorial (1901) Chatham: Confederate Dead Monument (1899; rededicated in 1967) Chesterfield: Confederate Memorial (1903) Courtland: Confederate Monument (1905) Dinwiddie: Confederate Monument (1909) Eastville: Confederate Monument (1913). "Erected by Harmanson-West camp Confederate veterans, the daughters of the Confederacy, and the citizens of the Eastern Shore of Virginia to the soldiers of the Confederacy from Northampton and Accomack Counties. They died bravely in war, or, in peace live nobly to rehabilitate their country. A. D. 1913." Emporia: Confederate Memorial (1910) Fincastle: Confederate Memorial (1904) Floyd: Confederate Monument (1904) Front Royal: Confederate Monument (1911) Gate City: Confederate Memorial (1988) Gloucester: Confederate Monument (1899) Halifax: Confederate Memorial (1911) Hanover: Confederate Monument (1914) Heathsville: Civil War Memorial, Northumberland County (1873) Hillsville: Confederate Monument (1907) King William: To Our Soldiers of the Confederacy Monument (1901) Lancaster: Lancaster County Confederate Monument (1872) Lawrenceville: Brunswick County Confederate Monument (1910) Louisa: Confederate Monument (1905) Lovingston: Confederate Monument (1965) Lunenburgh: Confederate Monument (1916) Marion: Confederate Monument (1904) Mathews: Our Confederate Soldier Monument (1912) Monterey: Confederate Monument (1918) Montross: Westmoreland County Confederate Monument (1876) New Castle: Confederate Monument (1912) Nottoway: Confederate Monument (1893) Palmyra: Confederate Memorial (1901) Pearisburg: Confederate Medal of Honor Monument (1995). Inscribed is the Jefferson Davis quote, "It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues and rise worthy of their sires." Powhatan: Powhatan Troop Confederate Memorial (1999) Rocky Mount: Confederate Monument (1910) Spotsylvania Courthouse: Confederate Monument (1918) Smithfield: Confederate Monument (1905) Surry: Confederate Monument (1903) Sussex: Confederate Monument (1912) Tappahannock: Essex County Confederate Monument (1909) Tazewell: Confederate Memorial (1903) Warm Springs: Confederate Memorial (1922) Warrenton: Monument to CSA colonel John S. Mosby (1916) Confederate Dead Monument (1877). Updated in 1998 with aid from the United Daughters of the Confederacy and local businesses. Washington: Confederate Monument (1898) Williamsburg: Williamsburg Confederate Monument (1908) Winchester: Confederate Soldiers Monument (1916) – in front of former courthouse, now museum. Plaque reads: "In honor of the Confederate soldiers from Winchester and Frederick County who faithfully served the South." Windsor: Confederate Monument (1905)
Other public monuments Alexandria: Plaques (1870) of Robert E. Lee and George Washington hang on either side of the altar at Christ Church, where both were parishioners. Following a unanimous vote of its board in 2017, the church announced the plaques would be removed in 2018 once a new location of "respectful prominence" is identified.
Berryville: Memorial (1986) and "hitching post" where Robert E. Lee tethered his horse, Traveller, while Lee "paused on his march to Gettysburg" to attended a church service Brandy Station: UDC monument (1998) dedicated to John Pelham Bristol: Confederate Soldier Monument (1910) Buchanan: Botetourt Artillery Obelisk (1902) Buckingham: Confederate Soldiers of Buckingham County (1908)
Chancellorsville: Confederate monuments at the site of the Battle of Chancellorsville include: Jackson Memorial Boulder and Tablet (1888), placed by former members of Stonewall Jackson's staff General Thomas J. Jackson Shaft (1888), "On this spot fell mortally wounded Thomas J. Jackson Lt. Gen. C.S.A. May 2nd 1863" Lee-Jackson Bivouac Shaft (1903), "Bivouac, Lee and Jackson, night of May 1, 1863" Lee-Jackson Bivouac Tablet (1937) Brigadier General Elisha F. Paxton Tablet (1980), "In this vicinity Brig. Gen. E. F. Paxton, C.S.A. Aged 35 years, of Rockbridge County, VA. was killed on the morning of May 3, 1863 while leading his command, the Stonewall Brigade in the attack on Fairview" University of Virginia Cemetery: Confederate monument (1893), by Caspar Buberl. Justin Greenlee draws a parallel between the erection of this monument, at whose dedication slavery was denied as a cause of the Civil War, and the adjacent cemetery for slaves, which was robbed of bodies for dissection in UVA's School of Medicine and Anatomy. Culpeper County: UDC monument (1929) commemorating Confederate victory in the Battle of Brandy Station Franklin: Confederate Monument (1911) Fredericksburg Confederate Monument (2009) "The Angel of Marye's Heights" Monument, statue of Sergeant Richard Rowland Kirkland giving water to fallen union soldier. (1965) The Heights at Smith Run (2014) Thomas R.R. Cobb Monument and Marker (1888) Glen Allen: J.E.B. Stuart Memorial (1888) Gloucester: Confederate Monument (1889) Goshen Pass: Maury Memorial, stone monument marker (1923)
Hampton: Two monuments at Big Bethel Cemetery, within Langley Air Force Base: Big Bethel UDC Monument (1905) UDC Monument (1964), commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Big Bethel Hampton National Cemetery: Two small, granite blocks near the burial location of 272 Confederates are inscribed "To Our Confederate Dead" Harrisonburg, Virginia: "Talbot Boys" monument (1914) at the Cross Keys battlefield, moved there from Talbot County Courthouse, Maryland, in 2022. Hopewell: Confederate Memorial (1949)
Lebanon: Confederate Monument (1914) Lexington Washington and Lee University Previously Washington University, was renamed weeks after Robert E. Lee died as the President of the university. Inside University Chapel, in place of an altar, is a large marble statue of Lee, recumbent, wearing Confederate battle gear and resting on a camp bed. (Lee is buried with his family in a mausoleum beneath the chapel.) Grave of Traveller, Robert E. Lee's horse (1871). Apples are regularly placed on the grave by visitors. Virginia Military Institute Francis H. Smith statue (1931). Smith served in the CSA for four years during his tenure at VMI. Virginia Mourning Her Dead, a bronze statue by Moses Ezekiel, dedicated 1903, moved to current location 1912, "honors the ten cadets from the school who fought and died after being wounded on the battlefield near New Market on May 15, 1864.... A ceremony to commemorate the deaths is held every year at the monument on the anniversary of the battle." Luray: Confederate Monument (1898) Page County Confederate Monument (1918) Lynchburg: Confederate Monument on Monument Terrace (1900) Fort Early and Jubal Early Monument (1919) Mechanicsville: Wilcox's Alabama Brigade (1999) Mecklenburg County: Confederate statue in front of the Courthouse. Middletown: Monument (1919) to Stephen Dodson Ramseur at entrance to Belle Grove Plantation, where he died following the Battle of Belle Grove.
Mount Jackson: "Our Soldiers Cemetery" statue (1903) New Kent: Confederate Monument (1934) New Market: This Rustic Pile Monument (1909) Newport News: Confederate Soldier Monument (1909) Nickelsville: Nickelsville Spartan Band Monument (2000)
Orange County: Confederate monuments at Wilderness Battlefield include: Wilderness Battlefield Tablet (1927), UDC monument Colonel James D. Nance Tablet (1912), marks where Nance was killed Texas Brigade Shaft (1964), "'Who are you my boys?' Lee cried as he saw them gathering. 'Texas boys,' they yelled, their number multiplying each second." "Lee to the Rear!" Tablet (1903), "Lee to the Rear! Cried the Texans. May 6, 1864" Parksley: Confederate Monument (1899). Inscriptions read: "They died for the principles upon which all true republics are founded"; "They fought for conscience sake [ sic ] and died for right"; "At the call of patriotism and duty, they encountered the perils of the field and were faithful even unto death." The front of the monument gives this information: "Erected by Harmanson-West Camp Confederate Volunteers in memory of their dead comrades from Accomack and Northampton Counties." The monument was made by Gaddess Brothers of Baltimore of Barre granite, and is about 30 feet tall.
Petersburg: Petersburg National Battlefield Hagood's Brigade, a monument in the Petersburg National Battlefield. Text on front: "Here a brigade composed of the 7th battalion, the 11th, 21st, 25th and 27th regiments South Carolina Volunteers, commanded by Brig. Gen. Johnson Hagood, charged Warren's Federal Army Corps, on the 21st day of August 1864, taking into the fight 740 men, retiring with 273. // No prouder fate than theirs who gave their lives to liberty." Text on rear: "Placed here by Wm. V. Izlar, a survivor of the charge, aided by other South Carolinians."