Cookeville Confederate Memorial

The Confederate soldiers of 1861-1865 are presented as the greatest fighting force ever assembled, and Randolph McKim said they acted not for fame or reward, not for place or rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity, but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it, suffering all, daring all, and dying. The citizen-soldiers who fought for the Confederate States of America are honored as personifying the best qualities of America, with the preservation of liberty and freedom given as the South's motivation for fighting the Second American Revolution. Their tenacity in battle is linked to their belief in rights guaranteed by the Constitution, and these attributes are identified as underpinning democratic society and forming part of the foundation on which the nation was built.

Cookeville, Tennessee · United States