Lloyd Tilghman Memorial

The Lloyd Tilghman Memorial is a historic monument in Paducah, Kentucky, Lloyd Tilghman, a brigadier general shows. This fought for the Confederate States of America, and fell at the Battle of Champion Hill in May 1863.

Lloyd Tilghman came from Maryland, but lived 1852-1861 in Paducah. He resigned on July 5, 1861 as a colonel in the Confederate States Army and was promoted the following October to general. He was Commander for the construction of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson and followed another general, but was able to stop the further construction of military forts Henry inadequate too late. He fell at the Battle of Fort Henry in captivity and was able to return again in the service until next fall. Tilghman then fell during the Second Vicksburg campaign.

It was decided in 1909 to honor Tilghman. Tilghmans sons Frederick and Sidell and the United Daughters of the Confederacy came together on the funds for construction of the monument, with the two sons contributed $ 10,000 and the United Daughters of the Confederacy paid 5,000 U.S. dollars.

The statue was made by Henry Hudson Kitson, who was then a resident of Boston, where he had immigrated coming from England. The statue is made of bronze and stands on pedestal and base of pink granite. The total height of the monument is 3.6 m, the base is a square with an edge length of 5.2 m, the base measures 7.6 m. The memorial plaque was placed by the graduating class of Tilghman High School in 1929.

On 17 June 1997, the monument with 60 other war memorials in Kentucky was entered in the National Register of Historic Places. Another monument on the list, the Confederate Monument in Paducah, is very close. The Lloyd Tilghman House is also entered in the National Register and is used as a museum.

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• Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
• McCracken County