On the left pillar it read: Erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy in memory of our Confederate soldiers, who in heroic self-sacrifice and devoted loyalty gave their lives to the South in her hour of need.

[2] On the right pillar it read: "Their names graved on memorial columns are a song heard far in the future, and their examples reach a hand through all the years to meet and kindle generous purpose and mold it into acts as pure as theirs.

"[3] The monument was funded and erected in 1918 by the Katie Daffan Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy,[4] and unveiled on June 3, the anniversary of Jefferson Davis's birthday.

[2] At the unveiling ceremony, Texas State Senator James Robert Wiley told onlookers:Historians do not do them [Confederate soldiers] and their work justice.

[9] On February 1, 2018, Denton County leaders voted 12–3 to keep the statue, but to add a plaque denouncing slavery and a video kiosk explaining the city's racial history and progress, which was never added or completed.