The Star City Confederate Memorial in Lincoln County

Located at the southwest corner of the town square of Star City, Arkansas, the Star City Confederate Memorial depicts a Confederate Army soldier standing in mid-stride with his left foot forward. The marble statue is about 6 feet high and 2 feet square, held by hands on the barrel of a rifle whose butt rests on the monument base.

The monument stands on a marble foundation that is 20 feet long, 12 feet wide, and 8 feet high. It was erected in 1926 by a local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at a cost of about $2,500. The memorial was first placed on the grounds of the 1911 courthouse, moved to the new courthouse in 1943, and returned to the town square in the 1990s.

All four sides of the monument base have inscriptions. The front, facing south, reads "IN MEMORY OF / OUR / CONFEDERATE / HEROES / 1861 - 1865". The east side reads "LINCOLN COUNTY / REMEMBERS THE / FAITHFULNESS OF / HER SONS AND / COMMENDS THEIR / EXAMPLE TO / FUTURE GENERATIONS." The north side reads "ERECTED BY / CAPT. J. MARTIN / MERONEY / CHAPTER NO. 1831 / OF LINCOLN COUNTY / U. D. C." The west side reads "OUR FURLED BANNER / WREATHED WITH / GLORY AND THOUGH / CONQUERED, WE ADORE / IT. WEEP FOR THOSE / WHO FELL BEFORE IT. / PARDON THOSE WHO / TRAILED AND TORE IT." The monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

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