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List of Confederate monuments and memorials in South Carolina

Note: This is a sublist of List of Confederate monuments and memorials from the South Carolina section.

Monuments and memorials
South Carolina State House : In August 2017, "a coalition of Columbia-area groups is calling for the S.C. Legislature to remove several monuments on the State House grounds." It was unveiled before a crowd of 15,000. The monument was largely destroyed by lightning in 1882, but was replaced by the state two years later. In 2015 it was removed by a 2/3 vote of both houses of the Legislature. It is displayed in the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum. • Monument to the South Carolina Women of the Confederacy (1912), The inscription reads: "The world shall yet decide, in truth's clear, far-off light, that the soldiers who wore the gray, and died with Lee, were in the right." • Darlington: Monument to the Confederate Dead (1880) • Edgefield Confederate Monument (1900) • Greenwood: Confederate Monument (1903) • Lancaster: Our Confederate Soldiers Monument (1909) • Lexington: Lexington Confederate Monument (1886) • Manning: Confederate Monument (1914) • St. Matthews: "Lest We Forget" Monument (1914) • Union: Union County Confederate Memorial (1917) • Walterboro: Confederate Monument (1911) • York County: County removed a Confederate flag and portraits of CSA leaders from inside the court room. Being challenged in court. Other public monumentsAbbeville: • Abbeville Confederate Monument (1906) • First Secession Meeting Columns Monument (1927) Defaced with red paint • Monument to Henry Timrod (1901), "author of poetic paeans to the Confederacy": "Sleep martyrs, of a fallen cause.". • Clemson: Old Stone Church Confederate Memorial • Clinton Confederate Monument "Two opposing sides of the 13-foot-tall marble monument feature bas-relief carvings depicting enslaved blacks, including a 'mammy' figure cradling a white baby and a black man cutting wheat." The main speaker at the dedication was Polk Miller, a white defender of slavery, who in his remarks "pitted what he called the 'uppity,' turn-of-the-century African American against the 'negro of the good old days gone-by,' suggesting emancipation had been an unfortunate development." This monument is seen as an example of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy movement. • Georgetown: Confederate Monument (1929) at Battery WhiteGreenville: Confederate Monument (1892) • Jonesville: Confederate Monument (1907) • Kingstree: Confederate Soldier, Williamsburg County Monument (1910) • Laurens Confederate Monument (1910) • Marion: Marion Monument "To the Dead and Living Confederate Veterans" (1903) • Moncks Corner: Berkeley County Confederate Monument (2011) • Newberry Confederate Monument (1880) • Orangeburg: • Confederate Monument (1893) • Confederate Flag and Monument (2001) • Memorial in memory of Confederate soldiers buried in Old Pioneer Graveyard (at the Dixie Library Building) • Prosperity: Confederate Veterans Monument (1928) • Rock Hill: Ebenezer Confederate Monument (1908) • Salem Confederate Monument (2004) • Seneca: UDC Memorial Gateway (1933) dedicated to Confederate soldiers at entrance to Mountain View Cemetery • Spartanburg: Confederate Soldier Monument (1910) • Walhalla: "Our Confederate Dead" Monument (1910) • Westminster Confederate Monument (1980) • Williamston: Confederate Monument (1942) • Winnsboro: Confederate Memorial (1901) • York: York County Confederate Monument (1906) Private monumentsAbbeville: The S.C. Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans is erecting an foot monument on Secession Hill, dedicated to the 170 signers of South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession. The monument will be unveiled on November 10, 2018. • Ehrhardt: Jackson Academy (private school): The school's athletic teams are nicknamed the "Confederates" • Greenville: Wade Hampton High School • Varnville: Wade Hampton High School Other • Greenville: Wade Hampton Fire Department • Holly Hill: The American, South Carolina, and Confederate flags were erected in 2017 on private land along U.S. Highway 176 west of town, along with a sign with the Sons of Confederate Veterans name. It has been vandalized. On July 9, 2018, residents protested to the City Commission what they called the "blatant racism" of the display.{{cite news ==Notes==
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