ALABAMA
Horse Farm outside Mobile
Downtown Mobile
A carefully worded tribute to the Confederacy. “Fiercest and most decisive” likely celebrates fierce opposition by the Confederacy while acknowledging the Union victory. In The Battle of Mobile Bay, the ironclad vessel CSS Tennessee, the last of the Confederate fleet, fought alone against Union forces for some time, but ultimately surrendered (note the model of the Tennessee above the plaque). Erection of tributes to the Confederacy spiked in the 1950s and 1960s, likely in response to civil rights tension.
Another veiled tribute to the Confederacy, this one courtesy of the Colonial Dames of Alabama, erected in 1906, during which time many Confederate soldier statues were erected across the South.
Waterfront selfie
