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Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Indianapolis)
Monument to the Confederate POWs in Indianapolis / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (or Garfield Park Confederate Prisoner of War Monument) was a large granite monument that sat at the south entrance of Garfield Park in Indianapolis for nearly a century, before being removed in 2020. It commemorated the Confederate prisoners of war that died at Camp Morton. At 35 feet (11 m) tall and located in the city's oldest public park, it had been the most prominent of the very few Confederate memorials in the Union state of Indiana. It was dismantled and removed by the city of Indianapolis in June 2020 after a yearslong debate, part of a national wave of removal of Confederate memorials during the Black Lives Matter movement.
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39°43′51″N 86°08′38″W | |
Location | Garfield Park, Indianapolis, Indiana, US |
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Material | Granite |
Width | 20 feet (6.1 m) |
Height | 35–40 feet (11–12 m) |
Completion date | 1912 (at Greenlawn Cemetery) 1928 (moved to Garfield Park) |
Dismantled date | June 8, 2020 |