Civil War Capitol Site

Brownsville, TN

This monument honors the soldiers of Haywood County, Tennessee, who fought and died for the Confederacy during the Civil War of 1861–1865, and it pointedly salutes the county's Confederate women, whose labor sustained the home front. Memorials like it rose across the South in the decades after the war — most during the Jim Crow era, erected by groups such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy — to shape how the Lost Cause was remembered.

Judsonia, AR

"In Memory of the Defenders of the Union, 1861–1865" marks the Grand Army of the Republic — the powerful fraternal order of Union Civil War veterans — in Judsonia, Arkansas. Though Arkansas joined the Confederacy, thousands of its men, white and Black, fought instead for the Union, and this memorial honors that loyal service.

Searcy, AR

Erected in 1917, this monument honors the Confederate soldiers of White County, Arkansas, who served in the Civil War (1861–1865). Arkansas seceded in 1861, and thousands of its men fought for the Confederacy; a half-century later, aging veterans and their descendants across the South raised memorials like this one during the era's wave of Confederate commemoration.

Hardin County, TN

This marker fixes the spot in Hardin County, Tennessee where General Ulysses S. Grant made his headquarters on the rain-soaked night of April 6, 1862, during the Battle of Shiloh. After a brutal first day that nearly broke his army, Grant famously sheltered under a tree and resolved to attack at dawn — and the next day drove the Confederates from the field. The quotation from his memoirs preserves the general's own memory of that grim night.