Confederate War Memorial, Dallas

The Dallas Confederate War Memorial was dedicated on April twenty-ninth, eighteen ninety-seven, by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. San Antonio sculptor Frank Teich designed a sixty-five-foot granite and marble pillar capped by a Confederate infantryman, with the other three faces of the base honoring the cavalry, infantry, and naval forces of the Confederacy. It stood at Old City Park until freeway construction forced its move to Pioneer Park in nineteen sixty-one.

The monument represented the Lost Cause framing that dominated Confederate commemoration in the decades after the war. Following sustained community debate and legal challenges, the Dallas City Council voted to remove it in twenty twenty. The monument stood in public space for more than a century before coming down, its contested history a thread running through Dallas's long reckoning with its past.