Lt. Gen. Stephen Dill Lee, Vicksburg NMP
"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we submit the vindication of the Cause for which we fought; to your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles he loved and which you also cherish. Remember, it is your duty to see that the true history of the South is presented to future generations."
Lt. Gen. Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General, United Confederate Veterans, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1906.
The Admiral Raphael Semmes Monument is located in Mobile, Alabama. Semmes was born in 1809 in Maryland and became a midshipman in the U.S. Navy on 1 April 1826. He had a distinguished career in the old Navy and also read law and passed the bar exam in 1833. He joined the Confederate Navy with the outbreak of the War for Southern Independence and commanded the CSS Sumter and CSS Alabama. Semmes wreaked havoc on the U.S. merchant fleet around the world and sank the U.S. Navy sidewheel ironclad, USS Hatteras off Galveston, Texas. After the war he lived in Mobile and wrote one of the outstanding memoirs, "Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States." He died in Mobile in 1877.
A marble statue of a Confederate sergeant taking roll call adorns the outside of the Army of Tennessee Tomb in Metairie Cemetery. The bronze equestrian statue of General Albert Sidney Johnson can be seen on top of the tomb. The tomb is the final resting place of General Pierre G.T. Beauregard. The historic cemetery also contains the Army of Northern Virginia Tomb for veterans of that famous fighting unit. Entombed elsewhere in the cemetery are General John Bell Hood and Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor. 
This monument was built in Baton Rouge about 1880 and had a different base. At some time in the 20th Century the original wooden base was replaced by the granite one it now rests upon. The Battle of Baton Rouge occurred on 5 August 1862 when Confederate forces under Gen. John C. Breckinridge attacked Union occupying forces. At first successful, the Confederates had to withdraw when the C.S.S. Arkansas broke down and was unable to neutralize the Union gunboats in Baton Rouge.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis laid the cornerstone for this monument in honor of Alabama's Confederate veterans in 1886 on the north side of the capitol building. It is scheduled for renovation. (AP Photo)