Claiborne Parish Confederate Monument

Erected in 1940, seventy-five years after the war, by the Daughters of the Confederacy, this is a Lost Cause memorial: that version of the war honors the soldiers and leaves slavery out of why they fought. The war was fought to keep people enslaved, and Henry Bibb, who later became an abolitionist and author, was enslaved in this parish from 1839 to 1841. The monument stood on the courthouse square in Homer until the Sons of Confederate Veterans moved it to private land, where it stands on a hill; visits are by permission of the residents only.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Germantown Colony Museum — 16 mi
  Two hewn-log buildings from an 1836 religious commune near Minden, the earliest of its kind in Louisiana, with a museum added in 1975.
• Eddie G. Robinson Museum — 17 mi
  A state museum in a former women's gymnasium at Grambling State University, on the 408-win coach who sent more than 200 players to the pros.
• Lake Bistineau State Park — 31 mi
  A 903-acre state park on a lake the Great Raft made, opened in 1946 with a separate section for Black visitors from 1956, and now known for cypress water and a lake that is drawn down.

More markers nearby

• St. John Colored School — 3.9 mi
• Arizona Academy Site — 7.6 mi
• Homer College (CME) / African American Education in Louisiana — 8.9 mi
• T. H. Harris — 8.9 mi