Memorial_to_the_Confederate_Dead_(St._Louis)
Memorial to the Confederate Dead (St. Louis)
Confederate memorial in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
The Memorial to the Confederate Dead is a Confederate memorial in Missouri.
Around 1899, the Ladies’ Confederate Monument Association began raising funds to erect a monument in St. Louis to soldiers who had fought against the United States. After some $23,000 ($411,305 today[1]) was raised, mostly from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the monument was installed in Forest Park, the city's largest park. It was dedicated on December 4, 1914.[2]
It was rededicated in 1964 on its 50th anniversary.[2]
In 2015, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay launched an effort to have the monument removed.[3] He appointed a committee of business and civic interests, which later that year recommended its removal.[4]
in June 2017, the monument was removed from Forest Park,[5] one of at least 36 Confederate memorials removed that year from locations around the country.[6]
As of 2022, it awaits a new home outside St. Louis City and County limits, per an agreement between the city and Missouri Civil War Museum in Jefferson Barracks.[5]