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Battle of Monocacy • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • Armies

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The monument to The Southern Soldiers is on the west side of Urbana Pike (State Route 355) 100 yards south of the entrance to the Monocacy Visitor Center. (see map below) Dedicated on the fiftieth anniversary of the battle, the twelve foot high monument of Maryland granite is the only one on the battlefield dedicated to Confederate soldiers. Colonel Robert E. Lee, Jr., grandson of the Confederate general, was the keynote speaker to over 1,000 spectators.

From the marker:

This boulder
overlooks the
Monocacy Battlefield
and is in memory
of

The Southern Soldiers

who fell in the battle
fought July 9, 1864
which resulted in
a Confederate victory.

Erected July 9, 1914
by the Fitzhugh Lee Chapter
United Daughters of the Confederacy
of Frederick, Maryland

Location

The monument is on the west side of Urbana Pike (State Route 355) 100 yards south of the entrance to the Monocacy Visitor Center. (39°22’35.2″N 77°23’49.4″W)