The Union Confederate Monument, also known as the Unknown Confederate Gravesite Monument,[1][2] is an outdoor Confederate memorial at Union Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.

[3][4][5] The 15-foot (4.6 m) granite obelisk monument was erected by the U.S. government in 1911 to commemorate the 15 Confederate prisoners of war buried at the site.

[2] The exact location of their individual graves is unknown.

The memorial includes two bronze tablets displaying the names of the prisoners, who were captured during the Battle of Westport.

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