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Located beside Gloucester's City Hall, the town's Soldier's and Sailors' Monument, also known as Liberty Statue, was dedicated September 11, 1879 through the efforts of the Col. Allen Post 45 of the G. A. R. The monument is comprised of an imposing…

Funded by a prominent group of Scottish-Americans – organized 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…

The Soldiers and Sailors Monument was dedicated in 1889, having been built by T. M. Perry. The monument is located in a triangle formed by Concord, Amherst, and Nashville streets and commemorates the soldiers in New Hampshire that fought in the war.…

The Botetourt Artillery Obelisk stands a proud 27ft tall on the busy main street of Buchanan, Virginia. It commemorates not only the local Buchanan company of soldiers that was organized in 1859, but all soldiers who fought during the war, as well as…

Located in Chicago's Oak Woods Cemetery, the Confederate Mound is situated on a former mass grave for Confederate prisoners of war, who died at Camp Douglas (1862-65). In 1887, the Ex-Confederate Association of Chicago received permission by the…

The Wirz Monument was dedicated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to commemorate Captain Heinrich Hartmann Wirz who served as the commander of the Andersonville Civil War Prison between 1864-65 and was hanged in Washington, DC in 1865 with a…

The Soldier's Monument at Danville National cemetery is located on a cemetery that was designated a national cemetery in 1898 and was a dedicated burial site for veterans of the civil war who had died at the National Home for Disabled Volunteers…

Recently restored by the Royalston Arts Foundry, this Soldiers' Monument is based on Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson's sculpture in Newburyport. The sculpture stands atop a square granite base, which rests on two steps and features a soldier marching with…

This sandstone obelisk, completed in 1837, was the first monument built for UNC president Joseph Caldwell. In 1904, when the current monument in McCorkle Place was erected, the Class of 1891 placed this monument on Wilson Caldwell's grave in the Old…