The 6-foot-tall (1.8 m) Confederate soldier statue atop the arch is more typical; it is made of zinc, and features a typical Confederate soldier wearing a slouch hat, carrying a canteen and bed roll while resting himself with his rifle.

[3] Inside the arch are the names of the various officers of the Colonel Ed Crossland Chapter No.

Due to how late it was built, the monument was meant to celebrate the Confederacy, not to mourn it, despite being at the entrance to a cemetery; earlier such monuments in Kentucky had a "funeral" aspect.

[3] Behind the arch is a step with the initials UCV, the abbreviation for the United Confederate Veterans.

[2][3] On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty-one different monuments to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission.