The card pictures the Confederate Soldiers' Monument in Lynchburg, Virginia: a bronze infantryman at parade rest atop a granite pedestal inscribed "1861–1865" and "Our Confederate Soldiers," with a carved flag and wreath on the shaft. Memorials of this type were raised across the South in the decades after the Civil War to honor local Confederate dead, and Lynchburg's stood as a public landmark in the city. The view is a typical hand-colored chromolithograph postcard of the early 1900s.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
This is the Hill
city all right
Virginia
We have been here 2 weeks today. Find they will aid here-
card is very pretty there.
Message handwritten in ink on the front; white margin at right used for correspondence (undivided-back era). Light soiling, edge and corner wear; small publisher's mark at lower right.
Cite this card
Confederate Soldiers' Monument, Lynchburg, Virginia, circa 1908, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/confederate-soldiers-monument-lynchburg-virginia-circa-1908. Accessed October 22, 2026.
