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'''The Caddo Parish Confederate Monument''' is a large statue and pedestal in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], erected in the early 1900s to commemorate the Lost Cause of the [[Confederate States of America]] and to admonish southerners "Lest We Forget" of their ancestors who fought and died in the [[American Civil War]]. Caddo Parish commissioners voted in July 2020 to build a box around the statue, owned by the Daughters of the Confederacy.

'''The Caddo Parish Confederate Monument''' was a large statue and pedestal in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], erected in the early 1900s to commemorate the Lost Cause of the [[Confederate States of America]] and to admonish southerners "Lest We Forget" of their ancestors who fought and died in the [[American Civil War]]. Caddo Parish commissioners voted in July 2020 to build a box around the statue, owned by the Daughters of the Confederacy.

<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2020/07/20/agreement-reached-move-caddo-parish-confederate-monument/5473757002/|title=Caddo Parish, Daughters of Confederacy reach agreement reached to move monument|author=Emily Enfinger|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=July 20, 2020}}</ref>  

<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2020/07/20/agreement-reached-move-caddo-parish-confederate-monument/5473757002/|title=Caddo Parish, Daughters of Confederacy reach agreement reached to move monument|author=Emily Enfinger|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=July 20, 2020}}</ref>  

In September 2020, officials announced that the monument will be re-established nearly fifty miles south of Shreveport at a site in  DeSoto Parish near the Mansfield State Historic Site where the Battle of Mansfield was fought in 1864 and resulted in a Confederate victory.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2020/09/12/caddo-parishs-confederate-monument-moving-desoto-parish/5760721002/|title=Caddo Parish's Confederate  Monument to Be Moved to DeSoto Parish|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|author=Deborah Bayliss|accessdate=September 12, 2020}}</ref>

In September 2020, officials announced that the monument would be re-established nearly fifty miles south of Shreveport at a site in  DeSoto Parish near the Mansfield State Historic Site where the Battle of Mansfield was fought in 1864 and resulted in a Confederate victory.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2020/09/12/caddo-parishs-confederate-monument-moving-desoto-parish/5760721002/|title=Caddo Parish's Confederate  Monument to Be Moved to DeSoto Parish|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|author=Deborah Bayliss|accessdate=September 12, 2020}}</ref>

[[Image:Upper portion, Confederate Monument, Shreveport IMG 1350.JPG|350 px|right|thumb|The upper portion of the Confederate Monument in [[Shreveport]]: ordered for removal by federal court and headed for re-establishment in DeSoto Parish. Prior to removal, the Caddo Parish commission voted to erect a tall wooden box about the monument to shield it from public view.]]

[[Image:Upper portion, Confederate Monument, Shreveport IMG 1350.JPG|350 px|right|thumb|The upper portion of the Confederate Monument in [[Shreveport]]: ordered for removal by federal court and headed for re-establishment in DeSoto Parish. Prior to removal, the Caddo Parish commission voted to erect a tall wooden box about the monument to shield it from public view.]]