Historical Marker
Confederate Monument
Liberty, Amite County · Mississippi
Erected 2002
A Confederate monument stands in a county that sent a delegate to the secession convention who voted against leaving. David Hurst of Amite County said no in 1861, but the majority of the state's delegates voted yes, and Mississippi joined the Confederacy. By the end of the war 279 Amite men had died in Confederate service, though the county was never a theater of war. Its economy rested on timber, cotton, indigo and tobacco raised on plantations worked by enslaved African Americans, and when the war ended the county was 60 percent Black.
Where it stands
31.15860, -90.80898 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Homochitto National Forest — 21 miA 191,839-acre national forest in seven southwest Mississippi counties, replanted by the Civilian Conservation Corps, with Clear Springs and the 1,075-acre Okhissa Lake.
More markers nearby
- Amite County Courthouse — steps away
- Liberty — steps away
- Amite Female Seminary — steps away
- Europe Bates School — 9.3 mi