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18-686: Springfield Park may refer to: Springfield Park (Jacksonville) , a public park in Jacksonville, Florida Springfield Park, Liverpool , a public park in Liverpool, England Springfield Park (London) , a park in Upper Clapton, London Springfield Park (Durban) , an industrial suburb of Durban, South Africa Springfield Park, Quebec , a neighbourhood in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada Springfield Park (Queens) ,

36-569: A city park in Queens, of New York City Springfield Park (Rochdale) , a public park in Rochdale, England Springfield Park (Wigan) , a former multi-use stadium in Wigan, England Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Springfield Park . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

54-522: A former chairman of the city's Board of Public Works. It was the first Jacksonville city park to include a playground . From opening until the Civil rights movement the park was open to whites only. In 1914, Jacksonville hosted the annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans , with estimated attendance of about 8,000 former Confederate soldiers. The UCV chose the park as the location for

72-652: A new monument to honor the Women of the Southland , and five months after the reunion the city renamed the park "Confederate Park." Florida's Tribute to the Women of the Confederacy , a monument/statue, was erected in 1915. On August 11, 2020, the Jacksonville City Council voted to change the name of the park to Springfield Park, after the name of the neighborhood it sits in. The Springfield Park Playground, east of

90-651: Is a cheerful, frank citizen of the United States, accepting the present, trusting the future, and proud of the past." The UCV sponsored Florida's Tribute to the Women of the Confederacy (1915). The national organization assembled annually in a general convention and social reunion presided over by the Commander-in-Chief. These annual reunions served the UCV as an aid in achieving its goals. Convention cities made elaborate preparations and tried to put on bigger events than

108-757: The Confederate States of America as a merger between the Louisiana Division of the Veteran Confederate States Cavalry Association; N. B. Forrest Camp of Chattanooga, Tennessee ; Tennessee Division of the Veteran Confederate States Cavalry Association; Tennessee Division of Association of Confederate Soldiers ; Benevolent Association of Confederate Veterans of Shreveport , Louisiana; Confederate Association of Iberville Parish, Louisiana ; Eighteenth Louisiana; Adams County ( Mississippi ) Veterans' Association; Louisiana Division of

126-625: The Smithsonian Institution 's " Save Outdoor Sculpture! " program in November 1992. As the inscription says, it was sponsored by the Florida Division of the United Confederate Veterans . In May 2018, the monument was cited among those targeted by the March for Change, a three-day, 40-mile (64-km) protest against Confederate monuments located in Jacksonville and St. Augustine. It is No. 10 on

144-619: The Army of Tennessee; and Louisiana Division of the Army of Northern Virginia. The U.S. equivalent of the UCV was the Grand Army of the Republic . There had been numerous local veterans associations in the Southern United States , many of which became part of the UCV. The organization proliferated throughout the 1890s, culminating with 1,555 camps at the 1898 reunion. The next few years marked

162-534: The Make It Right Project's list of Confederate memorials it wants to see removed. On December 27, 2023, the monument was removed. United Confederate Veterans The United Confederate Veterans ( UCV , or simply Confederate Veterans ) was an American Civil War veterans' organization headquartered in New Orleans , Louisiana . It was organized on June 10, 1889, by ex- soldiers and sailors of

180-588: The Union." Rather their "recognition of the glorious deeds of our comrades is perfectly consistent with loyalty to the flag and devotion to the Constitution and the resulting Union." The convention agreed with him and formally resolved the Confederate veteran has: "returned to the Union as an equal, and he remains in the Union as a friend. With no humble apologies, no unmanly servility, no petty spite, no sullen treachery, he

198-597: The United Confederate Veterans held its sixty-first and final reunion in Norfolk , Virginia , from May 30 to June 3. Three members attended: William Townsend, John B. Salling , and William Bush. The U.S. Post Office Department issued a 3-cent commemorative stamp in conjunction with that final reunion. The last verified Confederate veteran, Pleasant Crump , died at age 104 on December 31, 1951. In addition to national meetings, another prominent factor contributed to

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216-548: The growth and popularity of the UCV. This monthly magazine became the official UCV organ, the Confederate Veteran . Founded as an independent publishing venture in January 1893 by Sumner Archibald Cunningham , the UCV adopted it the following year. Cunningham personally edited the magazine for twenty-one years and bequeathed almost his entire estate to ensure its continuance. The magazine was of very high quality, and circulation

234-421: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Springfield_Park&oldid=1192202663 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Springfield Park (Jacksonville) Springfield Park was opened in 1907 as Dignam Park, named for

252-475: The mid- and late-1890 reunions, and the numbers increased. In 1911, an estimated crowd of 106,000 members and guests crammed into Little Rock, Arkansas —a city of less than one-half that size. Then the passing years began taking a telling toll, and the reunions grew smaller. But still, the meetings continued until, in 1950, at the sixtieth reunion, only one member could attend, 98-year-old Commander-in-Chief James Moore of Selma , Alabama . The following year, 1951,

270-415: The park, was originally a part of Springfield Park, but was used for military training during World Wars I and II . It is now a dog park . The monument was designed in 1914 by sculptor Allen George Newman (1875–1940), and dedicated on October 26, 1915. Jno. Williams, Inc. served as the founder, and McNeel Marble Works served as the work's contractor. Its condition was deemed "treatment needed" by

288-434: The previous hosts. The gatherings continued to be held long after the membership peak had passed, and despite fewer veterans surviving, they gradually grew in attendance, length, and splendor. Numerous veterans brought family and friends along, further swelling the crowds. Many Southerners considered the conventions significant social occasions. Perhaps thirty thousand veterans and another fifty thousand visitors attended each of

306-412: The zenith of UCV membership, lasting until 1903 or 1904 when veterans started to die off and the organization gradually declined. The UCV outlined its purposes and structure in a written constitution based on military lines. Members holding appropriate UCV "ranks" officered and staffed echelons of command from General Headquarters at the top to local camps (companies) at the bottom. Their declared purpose

324-534: Was emphatically nonmilitary – to foster "social, literary, historical, and benevolent" ends. According to Paul H. Buck in his Pulitzer-Prize winning history of the reconciliation of North and South, educator Jabez L. M. Curry played a major role in promoting reunification of the sections. He told the 1896 UCV annual convention that their organization was not formed, "in malice or in mischief, in disaffection, or in rebellion, nor to keep alive sectional hates, nor to awaken revenge for defeat, nor to kindle disloyalty to

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