The Griffin A. Stedman monument

Veterans of several Connecticut regiments erected this monument in 1900 on the site in Hartford, the state capital, where they had been mustered into service and encamped prior to their departure for the theater of war. Unlike many northern monuments that depict a generic Union soldier, this one features a statue of a specific individual: General Griffin A. Stedman, whom the monument inscription calls a “typical volunteer soldier of the Civil War.” Born in Hartford and educated at Trinity College, less than a kilometer from the site, Stedman had been widely mourned in the city when he was killed in 1864 during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia, where a federal fortification was christened Fort Stedman the same year.

The Colonel Richard Owen Bust

Located in the Indiana Statehouse, this bronze bust of Union Colonel Richard Owen was erected by Confederate veteran and former camp inmate, S. A. Cunningham in 1913. The statue, funded entirely by readers of the Confederate Veteran magazine, commemorates the humanity Colonel Owen showed to his Confederate inmates as commissioner of Camp Morton prison in Indiana. Southern “sculpturess” Belle Kinney was commissioned to complete the monument. Designed in the spirit of reconciliation, Kinney was “anxious that [the bust] be handsome and unusually attractive, as it will be placed in a Northern city and must speak for [the South].” In 1913, she informed the press that “it was my aim to portray such a man as he might look while pondering over the meaning of the great struggle … his sympathetic heart touched by the suffering it caused, yet realizing its necessity.” Owen is posed with his arms folded across his chest, gazing off to the right and his Union military uniform is draped across his shoulders like a cape. The bust sits on a three-part limestone base adorned with a series of carved leaves and inscribed with bronze letters commemorating Owen’s “Courtesy and Kindness.” In 1933, two bronze replicas of the bust were cast and given to Indiana University in Bloomington and Purdue University in West Lafayette where both busts still stand in the schools’ Memorial Union buildings.

The Nicholasville Confederate Memorial

A seven-foot soldier, clutching a rifle and bayonet with both hands and with a knapsack slung across his shoulder. Bennett Young, a son of Jessamine County and the leader of the infamous St. Albans Raid on October 19, 1864, gave the dedicatory address, which followed the typical Lost Cause strains. Young would go on to become one of the preeminent Confederate memorialists in the nation.

The Lincoln Monument in Memory of Scottish-American Soldiers

Funded by a prominent group of Scottish-Americans – organised by then-U.S. Consul in Edinburgh, Wallace Bruce, and including philanthropist Andrew Carnegie – this monument was dedicated in Edinburgh's Old Calton Cemetery on 21 August 1893. Ostensibly erected to commemorate the participation of six Scottish-American soldiers in the Civil War, and in defence of the Union cause, the monument's artistic focus prioritizes an emancipatory rather than a military narrative. Featuring a bronze sculpture of Abraham Lincoln atop a red marble plinth, the composition is notable for sculptor George E. Bissell's inclusion of a bronze figure of an African American man, his arms outstretched towards Lincoln, at the plinth's base and at the visitor's level.

John W. Jones Monument (Horseheads North, New York) 

This small commemorative marker made of granite and bronze is located within Woodlawn National Cemetery, the location where John W. Jones was the caretaker in charge of burying the Confederate dead of Elmira Military Prison, located nearby. It was paid for with funds raised by local high school students and Elmira citizens and dedicated in 1997. The cemetery is located beside a town cemetery, also called Woodlawn, where John W. Jones and Mark Twain (among other prominent Elmirans) are buried. The John W. Jones Museum is located across the street from the national cemetery.

Newburyport Volunteer and Tablets (Newburyport, Massachusetts)

The first monument to a common soldier known to have been sculpted by a woman, "The Volunteer' was later used to cast multiple copies across Massachusetts and Mississippi. Kitson's monument attempted to restore individuality to the soldier by diverging from more conventional representations of the soldier as at parade rest. Instead, the monument is striking in its life-like representation of the Union soldier: his coat is unbuttoned, trousers tucked into his boots and hand in his pocket.

University of Alabama UDC Boulder

The University of Alabama gave to the Confederacy - 7 General Officers, 25 Colonels, 14 Lieutenant - Colonels, 21 Majors, 125 Captains, 273 Staff and other commissioned officers, 66 Non-Commissioned Officers and 294 Private Soldiers. Recognizing obedience to state, they loyally and uncomplainingly met the call of duty, in numberless instances sealing their devotion by their life blood. And on April 3, 1865, the Cadet Corps, composed wholly of boys, went bravely forth to repel a veteran Federal invading foe, of many times their number, in a vain effort to save their Alma Mater, its buildings, library and laboratories from destruction by fire, which it met at the hands of the enemy on the day following. To Commemorate this heroic record this memorial stone is erected by the Alabama Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy. University of Alabama May 13, 1914.