Confederate Monument (Union City, Tennessee)

Confederate Monument
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Street view of the monument

Location	Summer and Edwards Sts., Union City, Tennessee
Coordinates	36°25′13″N 89°2′50″W / 36.42028°N 89.04722°W / 36.42028; -89.04722Coordinates: 36°25′13″N 89°2′50″W / 36.42028°N 89.04722°W / 36.42028; -89.04722
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1869
NRHP Reference #	77001286^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 28, 1977

The Confederate Monument in Union City, Tennessee, also known as First Monument to Unknown Confederate Dead, is a simple marker erected in 1869 in a cemetery that was the burial site for the remains of 29 unidentified Confederate combatants killed in the American Civil War. Dedicated on October 21, 1869, it was one of Tennessee's first Confederate monuments.^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.^[1]

Union City also has a Confederate monument erected in 1909 with a dedication that reads:

To The Confederate Soldier of Obion County

Who Was Killed In Battle

Who Was Starved In Federal Prison

And Who Has Preserved Anglo-Saxon Civilization In The South^[2]

References

1 2 Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 Christopher Losson, "Civil War Monuments," Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture

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