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Confederate Private Monument

 
 
Confederate Private Monument image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Tracy Marsteller, September 18, 2021
1. Confederate Private Monument
Plaque of members on the west side of base.
Inscription. [South side] Duty Done Honor Won 1861-1865

[East side] To the Heroism of the Private Confederate Soldier

[North side] Faithful to the End

[West side] Erected 1909 by
Frank Cheatham Bivouac Number 1
Association of Confederate Soldiers
Camp Number 35
United Confederate Veterans
Nashville, Tennessee
Abbay, S.W. • Adkeisen, T.J. • Aimison, W. • Alexander, J. • Alexander, J.D. • Alexander, J.T. • Allen, A.J. • Allen, A.S. • Allen, C.T. • Allen, J.O. • Allen, J.B. • Allen, W.H. • Allison, T.F.P. • Alston, J.B. • Anderson, F. • Anderson, J.H. • Anderson, T. Jr. • Andrews, J.J. • Armistead, G.W. • Atkinson, F.M. • Atwell, W.H. • Averell, E.W. • Bailey, P.R. • Baker, A.J. • Baker, H. • Barnes, M.M. • Barnes, W.D. • Barry, W.A. • Baskette, C.H. • Bass, J.O. • Bass, S.D. • Bate, H.C. • Bate, W.B. • Batey, W.W. • Baugh, E.L. • Baxter, E. • Baxter, N. • Bell, R.L. • Bell, T.H. • Bennett, J.P. • Bennet, W.M. • Bettersworth, E. • Binkley, R.F. • Binkley, H.C. • Binns, J.E. • Blair, C.T. • Blevins, W.S. • Blue, W.N. • Blume, F.L. • Bolton, A. • Bond, J.H. • Bower, A.B. • Bowers, A. • Bowers, J.C. • Bowers, J.L. • Bowman, W.M. • Brandon, A.W. • Breast, J.K. • Brothers, W.E. • Brown, A.S. • Brown, J.B. • Brown, J.C. • Brow, J.P.W. • Brow, J.T. • Brown, M.N.
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• Bryson, J.H. • Buchanan, C.R. • Buford, Ed.

Buist, J.R. • Burke, M. • Burns, J.W. • Burrell, H. • Burton, J.A. • Bush, I.F. • Bush, W.G. • Byrne, J.P. • Cage, Jesse • Caldwell, S.J. • Camp, A.S. • Campbell, C.J. • Campbell, C.W. • Carmack, J.O. • Carmichael, C.W. • Carson, D.W. • Carson, J.T. • Carter, J.S. • Carter, J.W. • Carver, A.J. • Cave, R.L. • Chaney, D.M. • Chase, I.K. • Cheatham, M. • Cheatham, R.A. • Cisco, J.C. • Claiborne, Thos. • Clark, C.S. • Clark, J.I. • Clark, S.C. • Clark, W.B. • Clarke, W.L. • Clay, D.D. • Claybrooke, S.P. • Clendenning, W.A. • Cockrill, M.S. • Coggin, J.J. • Cole, J.C. • Colley, S. • Collins, R.E. • Cook, B.P. • Cooley, G.P. • Cooley, Theo. • Cooper, C.W. • Cooper, J.L. • Corbitt, J.M. • Cowan, J.C. • Craig, W.S. • Crutchfield, J.L. • Cummings, T.H. • Cunningham, S.A. • Currey, J.H. • Dallas, T.B. • Darsey, W.H. • Davis, H.B. • Davis, J.K. • Davis, T.W. • Dearman, L.L. • Derrickson, J.M. • Dibrell, G.C. • Diccons, G.A. • Dillahunty, J.B. • Dillard, W.H. • Dillehay, W.C. • Dismukes, J.L. • Doak, A.S. • Doak, H.M. • Dodd, T.L.

Donaldson, S.B. • Donaldson, W.R. • Douglass, A.H. • Douglass, D. • Douglass, E. • Douglass, T. • Driver, W.O. • Dudley, R.H. • Dumm, E.A. • Durrett, W.T. • Eakin, S. • Eastman, C.H. • Eaton, A.J. • Edmundson, H. • Edmundson, J. • Edwards, S.W. • Edwards, W.T. • Elam, T.A. • Ellison, S.H. • Ely, Jesse
Confederate Private Monument image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Tracy Marsteller, September 18, 2021
2. Confederate Private Monument
Closeup of the sculpture, by George Julian Zolnay, on top of the base. Records conflict as to whether or not it is of Sam Davis, the "Boy Hero of the Confederacy."
• Epperson, S.A. • Erskin, J. • Eslick, L. • Estes, J.T. • Ewing, O. • Fain, R.W. • Farrell, N. • Fields, J.W. • Fisher, J.R. • Fletcher, W.H. • Flippen, A.B. • Ford, A.B. • Foster, W.F. • Freeman, M.A. • Fry, G.W. • Fryar, J.F. • Fulkerson, W.W. • Fullton, J.H. • Fergus, J.T. • Gaines, F.W. • Gale, W.D. • Gambill, J.T. • Gardner, E.M. • Garner, J.K. • Garrett, R.G. • Gee, M.M. • Gibson, J. • Gibson, T. • Gilbert, A. • Gill, J.Y. • Gillman, J.W. • Gilmore, M.S. • Glascow, L.A. • Gooch, N. • Goodloe, B.R. • Goodrich, M.B. • Goodwin, J.A. • Gordon, J.P. • Grant, J.F. • Green, F.W. • Griffin, P.M. • Grizzard, M.T. • Gross, A.M. • Guild, G.B. • Gunn, L.C. • Haggan, L.P. • Hager, G.F.

Hailey, J.C. • Halbert, W.H. • Hall, J.A. • Hamblen, J.K.P. • Hamill, H.M. • Hamilton, W.A. • Hampton, N.J. • Hancock, E. • Handly, C.R. • Handly, J.R. • Hardison, H.A. • Hardison, R.G. • Hardison, W.T. • Harlin, S.M. • Harper, J.B. • Harris, F.S. • Harris, N.C. • Harris, T.W. • Harris, W.B. • Harrison, H.V. • Height, H. • Henry, O. • Henry, Owen • Herbert, D.C. • Hessey, L.C. • Heverin, H. • Hickman, J.P. • High, S.S. • Hightower, R.R. • Hill, J.L. • Hinson, W.J. • Hogan, G.W. • Holloway, J.J. • Hord, B.M. • Horn, H.H. • House, T.B. • House, W. • Howard, S.M. • Howlett, I.J. • Howes, G.H. • Howse, S.H. • Huggins, A.L. • Hughes, J.B. • Hughes, R.B. • Hume, Wm. • Ireland, H.C. • Irwin, J.W. • Irwin,
Confederate Private Monument image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Tracy Marsteller, September 18, 2021
3. Confederate Private Monument
Thos. • Ivie, H.J. • Jackson, M.R. • Jackson, W.H. • Jackson, Gen. W.H. • Jenkins, G.S. • Johns, W.N. • Johnson, C.S. • Johnson, Tim • Johnston, C. • Jones, G.W. • Jones, I.N. • Jones, J.W. • Jones, T.J. • Jones, T.W. • Joplin, T.M. • Keeble, J.M. • Kelley, D.C. • Kelley, Jas.

Kelley, T. • Kelley, W.D. • Kemper, W.A. • Kendrick, F.B. • Kennedy, H.S. • Kennedy, J.B. • Key, J.T. • Key, T.J. • Kirkpatrick, S. • Koger, Jas. • Lane, R.S. • Lasley, W.H. • Laurent, Ed. • Leake, B.B. • Leascher, G. • Lee, Z.P. • Lillard, W.G. • Lindsey, A. • Lindsey, J.W. • Litton, G.S. • Litton, I. • Locke, G.A. • Loftin, B.F. • Loftin, C.A. • Loftin, E.G. • Loftin, I.G. • Long, G.R. • Long, J.N. • Long, W.M. • Lowery, Wm. • Luckey, W.R. • Lyon, A.A. • Malone, T.H. • Maney, D.D. • Maney, Geo. • Maney, T.H. • Maney, W.B. • Manlove, P.H. • Manson, H.W. • March, J.C. • March, W.F. • Marcart, C.H. • Marks, A.S. • Martin, H.D. • Martin, J.S. • Martin, M.J. • Martin, W.D. • Mathis, W.J. • Matthews, H.C. • Matthias, W.J. • May, B.F. • Mekees, H.B. • Meredith, T.H. • Merritt, A.G. • Milamth, K. • Milliron, J. • Mitchell, H.B. • Mitchell, W.H. • Moody, W.H. • Moore, J.H. • Moore, J.H. • Moore, J.T. • Moore, V.B. • Morris, R.L. • Morrow, A.G. • Morrow, Wm. • Morton, G.H. • Muller, O.P.

Munroe, W.T. • Murray, S. • Murray, Wm. • McArthur, J.L. • McCabe, B. • McCabe, J.A. • McCann, B.W. • McCarley,
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C.W. • McCarthy, B.J. • McClanahan, J.A. • McConnell, J.W. • McConnico, C.H.K. • McDaniel, J.C. • McDaniel, J.R. • McDowell, J.H. • McFarland, J.P. • McGonigal, J. • McGuire, J.P. • McIver, E. • McKay, W.L. • McLean, R.O. • McLin, J.D. • McMillin, T.P. • McMurray, W.J. • McNeill, A.J. • McWhirter, A.G. • Nance, G.P. • Nance, J.B. • Nash, G.R. • Neal, R.J. • Neelley, W.M. • Neil, J.B. • Nellums, D.A. • Nichol, B. • Nichol, J.E. • Nichol, W.L. • Noland, R.G. • Oakley, G.A. • O'Bryan, J.B. • Oliver, F.S. • Ozanne, J.M. • Pardue, D.G. • Parker, W.T. • Parkes, Thos. • Parks, H. • Patterson, E.M. • Patton, W.M. • Peebles, Jas. • Penuel, J.N. • Petway, B.W. • Phillips, A.J. • Phillips, J.B. • Phillips, W.H. • Pickard, P.P. • Pilcher, M.B. • Polk, R.K. • Pollard, W.M. • Porter, G.G. • Porter, J. • Porter, T.M. • Porterfield, F. • Potter, W.J. • Powell, J.M. • Price, N. • Price, P.G. • Price, J.T.

Proctor, A.W. • Pryor, J.J. • Pyron, S.B. • Randall, W.H. • Randolph, W.W. • Rawley, J.W. • Reece, Ed. • Rice, N.B. • Richardson, E.R. • Richardson, J.B. • Richardson, N.B. • Ridge, I.S. • Ridley, C.L. • Ridley, J.A. • Ridley, S.J. • Rives, N.C. • Roberts, D.J. • Roberts, E.H. • Robinson, S. • Rose, H. • Rothrock, R.G. • Russell, L.W. • Sadler, J.R. • Sanders, J.P. • Savage, J.R. • Sawrie, W.S. • Scales, D.C. • Scales, N.F. • Scales, R. • Scoggins, S. • Scruggs, W.J. • Seay, G.W. • Seay, S. • Setliff, A. • Sharpe, T. • Shearon, S.B. • Shelton, J.T. • Shields, J. • Shumate, J.C. • Shumate, T.W. • Simrall, J.F. • Sims, H.F. • Sims, Jas. • Sinnott, H.T. • Skeggs, C.H. • Sloan, J.A. • Sloan, J.E. • Smith, Baxter • Smith, I.E. • Smith, J.B. • Smith, J.M. • Smith, J.M. • Smith, L.W. • Smith, R.L. • Smith, W.C. • Smith, W.H. • Spain, A.B. • Sparks, M.S. • Speiner, A. • Spence, W.C. • Spurr, N.A. • Steele, S.W. • Stecer, T.V. • Stewart, C.W. • Stone, S.H. • Stowers, J.T.

Stratton, M. Jr. • Suit, J.M. • Sullivan, J.E. • Summitt, D. • Sutton, J. • Talbot, J.B. • Tant, P.C. • Tarkington, J.H.C. • Taylor, T.B. • Thomas, W.T. • Thompson, C.W. • Thompson, J.A. • Thompson, J.H. • Thompson, J.W. • Tindall, J.A. • Tinnin, R.M. • Tipps, W.A. • Toney, M.B. • Towns, R.T. • Tracey, C.T. • Trawick, A.M. • Treanor, J.D. • Trousdale, W.F. • Turner, J.S. • Turney, P. • Utley, J. • Vandiford, G.R. • Vandiver, W.C. • Vaulx, J. • Vernon, E.R. • Vernon, T.G. • Vivrett, J.L. • Walker, J.S. • Wallace, J.F. • Ward, J.H. • Warmack, J.P. • Watkins, W.E. • Weakley, R.W. • Weakley, T.P. • Weaver, J.R. • Wells, L. • West, J.B. • West, J.H. • Wharton, A.D. • Wheeling, C.E.G. • Wheless, J.F. • White, F.N. • White, J.B. • Whitsett, J.B. • Whitsett, P. • Wilkerson, J.W. • Wilkes, J.H. • Williams, B.B. • Wills, Wylie • Wilson, S.F. • Winfrey, A.J. • Winkler, P.H. • Womack, J.P. • Wray, W.A. • Wright, J.T. • Wrye, J.M. • Yates, T.J. • Yeargin, W.A. • Young, J. • Young, J.S. • Young, W.H. • York, J.W.
 
Erected 1909 by Frank Cheatham Bivouac, United Confederate Veterans.
 
Topics. This monument and memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil.
 
Location. 36° 8.874′ N, 86° 48.758′ W. Monument is in Nashville, Tennessee, in Davidson County. It is in Midtown. It is on 27th Avenue N north of Poston Avenue, on the right when traveling north. Monument is in Centennial Park. Touch for map. Monument is at or near this postal address: 2500 West End Ave, Nashville TN 37203, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial monument is in Middle Tennessee. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Upper South. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Understanding the Past (here, next to this marker); United Nations Visit To Nashville (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); John W. Thomas (about 400 feet away); Lieutenant James Simmons Timothy (about 500 feet away); Lois Marie DeBerry (about 500 feet away); Beth Halteman Harwell (about 500 feet away); Jane Greenebaum Eskind (about 500 feet away); Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument (about 500 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Nashville.
 
Another marker is no longer nearby. Battle of Nashville (was about 500 feet away but has been confirmed missing).
 
Also see . . .
1. Confederate Private Monument (Wikipedia). (Submitted on September 19, 2021.)
2. Vandalized confederate monument in Centennial Park had kept low profile before Monday. By Brooklyn Dance in The Tennessean, posted June 18, 2019. (Submitted on September 19, 2021.) 
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on February 7, 2023. It was originally submitted on September 19, 2021. This page has been viewed 1,043 times since then and 34 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on September 19, 2021.
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