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Confederate Home Chapel Restoration

 
 
Confederate Home Chapel Restoration Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., November 11, 2015
1. Confederate Home Chapel Restoration Marker
Inscription.

To those men who bore the battle
and to their wives and their families
we dedicate our effort in the
restoration of this chapel.

July 1976


 
Erected 1976 by Laureate Phi Chapter, Beta Sigma Phi.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Fraternal or Sororal OrganizationsPatriots & PatriotismReligion & Religious StructuresWar, US Civil.
 
Location. 39° 5.903′ N, 93° 43.766′ W. Memorial is near Higginsville, Missouri, in Lafayette County. It is on 1st Street 0.4 miles north of Business Missouri Route 13, on the left when traveling north. Marker and Chapel are on the Confederate Memorial State Historic Site grounds. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Higginsville MO 64037, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Missouri River Corridor. It is also in the American Midwest, in the Lewis & Clark Corridor, in the Corn Belt, and on the Santa Fe Trail Corridor. 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, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Confederate Memorial State Historic Site (a few steps from this marker); Confederate States of America - Battle Flags (a few steps from this marker); Confederate States of America - National Flags (a few steps from this marker); Our Confederate Dead (within shouting distance of this marker); Lion of Lucerne (within shouting distance
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of this marker); Honoring All Who Serve (approx. Ό mile away); Address by President Abraham Lincoln (approx. Ό mile away); POW * MIA (approx. Ό mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Higginsville.
 
Other markers no longer nearby. Cottage Row [and] The Confederate Home Chapel (was within shouting distance of this marker but has been permanently removed); The Confederate Home of Missouri (was within shouting distance of this marker but has been permanently removed).
 
Also see . . .  Confederate Memorial State Historic Site MO. Missouri State Parks website entry (Submitted on November 26, 2015, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.) 
 
Confederate Home Chapel image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., November 11, 2015
2. Confederate Home Chapel
Confederate Home Chapel Interior image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., November 11, 2015
3. Confederate Home Chapel Interior
Confederate Home Chapel Interior image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., November 11, 2015
4. Confederate Home Chapel Interior
Lord's Prayer in the Confederate Home Chapel image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., November 11, 2015
5. Lord's Prayer in the Confederate Home Chapel
Confederate Home Chapel Window image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., November 11, 2015
6. Confederate Home Chapel Window
Confederate Home Chapel. Marker in planter below stained glass window image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, July 5, 2025
7. Confederate Home Chapel. Marker in planter below stained glass window
Confederate Home Chapel front view with welcome gateway image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, July 5, 2025
8. Confederate Home Chapel front view with welcome gateway
Confederate Home Chapel view from chancel area image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, July 5, 2025
9. Confederate Home Chapel view from chancel area
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on December 15, 2025. It was originally submitted on November 26, 2015, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 498 times since then and 22 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on November 26, 2015, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.   7, 8, 9. submitted on July 13, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina.
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