Confederate Monument (Greenville, South Carolina)

34°51′18″N 82°23′48″W / 34.85500°N 82.39667°W / 34.85500; -82.39667

Confederate monument, Greenville, South Carolina, 2021

The Confederate Monument (Greenville, South Carolina) is a shaft of granite topped by a marble statue of a soldier—the oldest public sculpture in Greenville—that memorializes the Confederate dead of the American Civil War from Greenville County, South Carolina. The monument is flanked by two period Parrott rifles manufactured at the West Point Foundry.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Seigler, Robert S. (2012). Confederate Monuments in South Carolina. Columbia, South Carolina: South Carolina Department of Archives and History Press. pp. 369–61. ISBN 978-1880067451.
  2. ^ "Confederate Memorial". Greenville Public Art Tour. Archived from the original on 2020-08-10. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  3. ^ Craddock Goins to Henry B. McKoy, June 12, 1972, Confederate Monument file, South Carolina Room, Hughes Library, Greenville, SC. Both the statue and the flanking guns face west.