The Confederate Soldier Monument, a historic statue in Princeton, Kentucky, stands mightily outside the Caldwell County Courthouse. Constructed by John Davis and Sons Marble and Granite Works and erected in 1912 by the Tom Johnson Chapter No. 886 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), the statue cost approximately US$10,000, equivalent to $333,621 in 2025.
Carved from mostly gray and some white granite, the monument stands 15 feet tall. The southward-facing statue has been said to be "defiant", with its back to the North, its defiant gaze, and its proud mustache.
Dedicated to local Confederate veterans on November 12, 1912, the monument drew a crowd so large that many businesses in Princeton closed for the ceremony. If you take a moment to read the inscriptions on its base, you will find a reminder of the heroics and the hard-won deeds of the soldiers who fought for the cause, etched in stone that has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1997.
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