Garnett, the first rebel general killed in the Civil War and five markers to the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway. Lee redwood in Kings Canyon National Park, plus three other large trees that bear the rebel general’s name a scenic network of rock formations near Lone Pine named for the CSS Alabama, one of the Confederacy’s most feared warships a small monument to Robert S. Lee the township of Confederate Corners in Monterey County mountaintops in the Sierra Nevada range commemorating Confederate president Jefferson Davis and General George E.
In addition to the Hollywood Forever memorial, Californians paid homage to the Confederacy with a large granite pillar in Orange County’s Santa Ana Cemetery schools in San Diego and Long Beach named for Robert E. In fact, no other state beyond the South contained as many monuments, markers, and place-names honoring the Confederate States of America (1861–1865) and its soldiers. The Hollywood memorial was not the only one of its kind in California. If only fleetingly, California played an important part in this reckoning with Civil War memory and the legacies of American slavery. In the weeks that followed, numerous Confederate monuments across the country came down. Lee and ended in the murder of one of the counterprotesters-sparked a national backlash against Confederate iconography and the history it represents. That rally-which began with a tiki-torch-lit vigil around a statue of Confederate general Robert E.
And it remained the most significant Confederate marker in California until it was removed from the cemetery grounds in the wake of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. It was the first of its kind anywhere in the Far West.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) erected the monument in 1925 to honor their rebel ancestors, buried in the surrounding cemetery plot. Visitors to Hollywood Forever Cemetery today could easily pass over the spot without realizing that, for the better part a century, this quiet corner of Los Angeles housed a six-foot granite tribute to the dead soldiers of the Confederacy. Where the monument once stood, only a gentle divot in the earth remains. This essay was originally published in California History, Vol 97, No.
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