Jeffersontown in Jefferson County, Kentucky — The American South (East South Central)

Confederate Soldiers Monument

Photographed by Bradley Owen, October 11, 2019

1. Confederate Soldiers Monument

Inscription.

Front:
Wilson P. Lilly.
Rev. Sherwood Hatley.
Confederate soldiers
October 25, 1864.
Robbed of the glory of death on the field
of battle by Stephen G. Burbridge who
ordered them shot without cause or trial
Erected to the memory of the four martyrs by the
Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter
U.D.C. of Louisville, Ky. June. 11, 1904.
Martyrs

Back:

Wilson P. Lilly.

Sherwood Hatley.

Lindsey Duke Buckner.

M. Blincoe.

Being dead yet speaketh.

Erected 1904 by Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Topics. This monument and memorial is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Civil.

Location. 38° 11.457′ N, 85° 34.182′ W. Monument is in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, in Jefferson County. It is at the intersection of Watterson Trail and Ruckriegel Parkway, on the right when traveling north on Watterson Trail. The memorial is located on the west side of Jeffersontown City Cemetery. Touch for map. Monument is at or near this postal address: 3702 Billtown Road, Louisville KY 40299, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial monument is in Greater Louisville Area.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Upper South,

and in the Ohio River Valley.

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

and also the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker,

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measured as the crow flies: Leatherman House (approx. 0.2 miles away); Conrad-Seaton House / Valentine Conrad Pottery (approx. 0.2 miles away); Saint Edward Church (approx. 0.3 miles away); Trainer and Jockey (approx. 0.3 miles away); Stucky House (approx. 0.3 miles away); Restoration Project (approx. half a mile away); Joseph Hite Family Cemetery at Mansfield (approx. 1.1 miles away); Christ Lutheran Church (approx. 1.7 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Jeffersontown.

More about this monument. The monument was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997.

Credits. This page was last revised on February 25, 2026. It was originally submitted on February 2, 2021. This page has been viewed 592 times since then and 38 times this year. Last updated on February 21, 2025. Photo 1. submitted on February 2, 2021, by Bradley Owen of Morgantown, West Virginia. • James Hulse was the editor who published this page.