The Confederate Monument in the center of Confederate Circle at the Mt. Olivet Cemetery, located at 1101 Lebanon Pike, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1904. It was erected in 1892 by the Ladies’ Memorial Association. This granite obelisk is topped with a nine-foot statue of a Confederate soldier. According to the Tennessee Historical Marker: “After the War Between the States, the women of Nashville bought land at Mount Olivet, and formed Confederate Circle. The remains of about 1,500 Confederate soldiers were moved here from area battlefields. Seven Confederate generals were buried in or around the circle.
