Surrounded by the graves of 68 Confederate soldiers, the Confederate Monument to the American Civil War resides in the hills above the state’s capitol in Kentucky. The monument was erected in 1892 by the Daughters of the Confederacy. The monument’s primary inscription reads; “Our Confederate Dead1861–1865They sleep—what need to question nowif they were right or wrong:They know ere this whose cause wasjust in God the Father’s sightThey wield no warlike weapons nowreturn no foeman’s thrustWho but a coward would revilean honored soldier’s dust.”