Searcy Confederate Monument

On the grounds of the White County Courthouse in Searcy stands a marble Confederate soldier, leaning on his rifle atop a granite base roughly sixteen feet tall. White County had sent eight companies of infantry and cavalry to fight for the Confederacy, and in the early nineteen hundreds local Confederate veterans set out to raise a memorial to them.

The money came through a public subscription campaign, and the monument was dedicated on August sixteenth, nineteen seventeen, during the veterans' annual reunion. Dozens of aging Confederate veterans crowded into the courthouse to hear the speeches. The statue was added to the National Register of Historic Places in nineteen ninety-six. Like many such monuments across the South, it has since drawn debate over whether courthouse grounds are the right place for it, a conversation that continues in Searcy today.