The Ladies’ Confederate Memorial by the Muldoon Monument Company of Louisville was unveiled in 1875 in Lexington, Kentucky.
Located in the Lexington Cemetary, the memorial was erected by the Ladies’ Memorial and Monument Association of Lexington. The monument has a base of rugged rocks with a rustic cross erected within it. On the cross hangs a broken Confederate flag while beneath it lays a broken sword. Within a few years of its creation, it was called by Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper “probably the most perfect thing of its kind in the South.”
The photos and description of the Ladies’ Confederate Memorial in Lexington, KY are part of materials from the Lexington Cemetery and Henry Clay Monument registration form for the National Register of Historic Places.
