Lake Providence Confederate Monument

The United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter that raised this soldier in 1915 took the name of Edward Sparrow, a Dublin-born planter who owned Arlington Plantation at Lake Providence and sat in the Confederate Senate from 1862 to 1865, chairing its Military Affairs Committee. In 1860 enslaved people outnumbered whites in Carroll Parish by more than three to one. The monument belongs to the Lost Cause, which recast a war fought to protect slavery as a noble defense of home. In 1898 a new state constitution effectively shut most Black voters out of the parish.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Grant's Canal, Lake Providence — 0.7 mi
  About 1,000 feet of the ditch Union troops dug in early 1863 to get Grant's army around Vicksburg, with a boardwalk, a pier and a visitor center in the Byerley House.
• Louisiana State Cotton Museum — 1.5 mi
  A state museum on US 65 north of Lake Providence with a sharecropper's cabin, a commissary and a gin house, in the parish where John H. Scott worked for Black voting rights.
• Poverty Point World Heritage Site — 18 mi
  Louisiana's only World Heritage Site: six C-shaped ridges, a 43-acre plaza and Mound A, raised on Macon Ridge between about 1700 and 1100 BCE.

More markers nearby

• Soldiers' Rest — steps away
• Battle for the Mississippi: The Vicksburg Campaign — 0.6 mi
• Grant's March Through Louisiana — 0.6 mi
• Grant's Canal — 0.7 mi