Jefferson Square Monument in The Mansion (Location)

Jefferson's Confederate monument, as it's most often called, is a generic Southern soldier atop a tall pedestal in front of the courthouse in the Square at the center of town. It appears in 7 fictions. According to Requiem for a Nun, it was "instigated" and paid for by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (a real Southern organization) and officially unveiled on "Confederate Decoration Day" in 1900 (189). Requiem provides the most details about the statue. In this novel Linda Snopes Kohl notes that "the Confederate monument in front of the courthouse" is the only work of sculpture that Ratliff had ever seen before meeting her husband, a sculptor, in their Greenwich Village studio (223).