Southern Horror #160

Southern Horror #160 (Alabama, 22 of 35) by Kris Graves The Alabama Confederate Monument was erected in 1898 by the State of Alabama and the Ladies Memorial Association to honor the 122,000 Alabamians who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. While this was going on, I was commissioned by National Geographic to photograph memorials, monuments, and sites of the antebellum South. My friend Marshall Scheuttle and I drove approximately 4000 miles across eight southern states making photographs of every site we could find. Some have been removed, most remain in place.