Arkadelphia Confederate Monument

The Arkadelphia Confederate Monument stands on the grounds of the Clark County Courthouse in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, depicting a standing Confederate soldier carved from Italian marble and mounted on a Georgia marble base. Designed and executed by sculptor R. P. Phillips in 1911, it was funded by the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy — an organization that systematically erected such monuments across the South in the early 20th century as part of the "Lost Cause" narrative, typically decades after the Civil War itself had ended. The monument is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and sits within a broader national conversation about the role of Confederate memorials on public, government-owned land.