Confederate soldiers were hastily buried on the battlefield after the surrender. The exact location of their graves is unknown. This monument commemorates the Southern soldiers who fought and died at Fort Donelson. The United Daughters of the Confederacy erected the monument in 1933.
SOURCE: 2010 Fort Donelson National Battlefield park brochure: Tour Stop 1.
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT
Because they had fought against the United States, Confederate dead were not reburied in the National Cemetery. This monument, erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy is a memorial for those men. It was dedicated in 1933.
SOURCE: Interpretive marker near the monument (pictured at right).
[Inscribed on the front of the monument:]
THIS SHAFT IS DEDICATED
AS AN ALTAR OF REMEMBRANCE
TO THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS
WHO FOUGHT AT FORT DONELSON
FEBRUARY, 1862
BY THE
DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY
OF TENNESSEE
“THERE IS NO HOLIER SPOT OF GROUND,
THAN WHERE DEFEATED VALOR LIES.”
[Left Side:]
HONOR THEIR VALOR, EMULATE THE
DEVOTION WITH WHICH THEY GAVE
THEMSELVES TO THE SERVICE OF
THEIR COUNTRY, LET IT NEVER BE
SAID THAT THEIR SONS IN THESE
SOUTHERN STATES HAVE FORGOTTEN
THEIR NOBLE EXAMPLE
[Back:]
FEBRUARY 13TH, 1862
FEBRUARY 14TH, 1862
FEBRUARY 15TH, 1862
SOMEWHERE HERE OUR UNKNOWN
DEAD WILL LIE FOREVER, WITH
ARMS UNSTACKED FOREVER, WITH
COLORS THAT CANNOT BE FURLED.
[Right Side:]
“____________ HERE
WAS THE PLACE OF BATTLE. YOU WHO
HAVE NEVER KNOWN THE SCOUR AND
PIERCE OF BATTLE MAY ONLY
REMEMBER MOMENTS BY NAMES,
PLACES BY MONUMENTS, BUT I WHO
WAS BORN BY THE BATTLE-FIELDS
CANNOT ESCAP A SORROW THAT
DWELLS, A VALOR THAT LINGERS,
A HOPE THAT SPOKE ON LIPS NOW STILL."
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