Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Civil War memorial in Linn Park, Birmingham, United States.
The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument was a sandstone obelisk standing about 52 feet tall at the southern entrance of Linn Park in Birmingham. The structure bore inscriptions honoring those who served in Confederate military forces.
The cornerstone of the monument's plinth was laid on April 26, 1894, during a United Confederate Veterans reunion, and held a Bible and a Confederate flag. The United Daughters of the Confederacy met in 1896 and raised funds in 1900 for an obelisk, completed on April 27, 1905, at 52 feet tall. The city removed the obelisk in 2020 after protests, leaving the plinth.
The obelisk's 2017 enclosure by a city-erected barrier led the state to sue Birmingham; in November 2019 the Alabama Supreme Court upheld a $25,000 fine against the city council. After protesters damaged the shaft in 2020, the council removed it, and the Attorney General filed a new suit citing the 2017 Alabama Memorial Preservation Act.
The site is located at the southern edge of the park and is easily accessible on foot. The area remains open to the public, though the monument structure itself was removed in 2020.
The granite cornerstone laid on April 26, 1894, during the United Confederate Veterans reunion held a Bible and a Confederate flag. The stone block sat unused for years, and a surplus artillery piece from the 1898 Spanish–American War once rested on it before the obelisk was funded in 1900.
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