Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville
Coordinates: 37 ° 52 ′ 51 ″ N , 84 ° 34 ′ 24 ″ W.
The Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville is a statue on the lawn of the Jessamine County's Courthouse in Nicholasville , Kentucky , about 9 miles south of Lexington . It is one of three sites in the county, which in relation to the American Civil War is, the other two are Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park and Camp Nelson National Cemetery .
It consists of a 3.3 m high granite base and a 2.1 m high representation of a Confederate soldier with a backpack and cap . There are inscriptions on all four sides of the base, including a passage from Theodore O'Hara's poem Bivouac of the Dead .
Efforts to erect the memorial began in 1880 when Civil War veteran Jefferson Oxley founded the Jessamine County Memorial Association , but in 1896 the memorial still did not stand. That year the association learned that a memorial for a Union soldier was cheap because the client hadn't paid for it. They bought the statue for $ 1,500 , and the image of a Union soldier was repurposed as a Confederate soldier.
Over 3,500 spectators attended the unveiling of the memorial, including approximately 160 people traveling on a special train from Louisville . Among the latter was Bennett H. Young , who made speeches at many such monument unveilings. The statue was unveiled by Oxley's son Lawson, as Jefferson Oxley had already passed away.
On July 17, 1997, the memorial was one of 61 Civil War memorials in Kentucky to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of a Multiple Property Submission .
supporting documents
- ↑ a b Nicholasville, Ky. Trailsrus.com, Retrieved July 10, 2012. (English)
- ^ A b Joseph Brent: Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville NRHP Nomination Form. Kentucky Heritage Council, 1997, p. 1
- Jump up ↑ Joseph E. Brent: National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Civil War Monuments in Kentucky, 1865-1935 ( English , PDF; 1.81 MiB ) National Park Service. January 8, 1997. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
- ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed June 12, 2016