Lake Village Confederate Monument

The Lake Village Confederate Monument is located on the median of Lakeshore Drive, between Main and Jackson Streets in Lake Village, Arkansas. The marble monument depicts a Confederate Army soldier standing in mid stride with his left foot forward. His right hand holds the barrel of a rifle, whose butt rests on the monument base. He carries a bedroll draped over his left shoulder, and wears a Confederate cap. A cannon that served as a fountain was once part of the sculpture, but is now missing. The statue is about 6 ft high and 2 ft square; it rests on a marble foundation that is 20 ft long, 12 ft wide, and 8 ft high. The monument was erected in 1910 by two chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at a cost of about $3,000.

The base has inscriptions on its east and west faces. The east face, or rear, reads "ERECTED BY THE / CAPTAIn McCONNELL / AND / GEORGE K. CRACRAFT / CHAPTERS, U.D.C. / A.D. 1910 / AND CHICOT COUNTY / WE CARE NOT WHENCE / THEY CAME, / DEAR IN LIFELESS CLAY / WHETHER UNKNOWN OR KNOWN TO FAME / THEIR CAUSE AND COUNTRY STILL THE SAME / THEY DIED AND WORE THE GRAY. / FATHER RYAN." The west face, or front, reads "1861-1865 CSA / TO THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS OF CHICOT / COUNTY, THE RECORD OF WHOSE SUBLIME / SELF SACRIFICE AND UNDYING DEVOTION / IS THE PROUD HERITAGE / OF A LOYAL POSTERITY."

The monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.