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The Emancipation Memorial was erected in 1876 in Lincoln Park, Washington D.C. to honour President Lincoln for his contribution to the country. It depicts President Lincoln standing still and emancipating an African American slave who half kneeling…

The African American Heritage Trail begins at the Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue at the corner of Park and Pine Streets. Just a few doors down from her house at 35 Park Street the statue was dedicated in 2002 after ten years of organizing and…

This tall, stone monument located near the historic Salem Church is dedicated to the 15th New Jersey Infantry regiment. It marks the site of a bloody battle between them and the Confederate 14th Georgia regiment in which around 116 men were killed…

A large stone monument with a bronze plaque originally placed in center of antebellum Rotunda and then relocated to south of the Rotunda Plaza in 1939. It commemorated the white university students who served in the Confederacy during the American…

Erected and dedicated in 1914, the Arlington Confederate Monument was located in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. The monument features a central, white female figure representing victory, surrounded by 32 life-sized figures…

The Confederate Memorial Fountain was commissioned in 1915 by the Winnie Davis Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to commemorate confederate civil war soldiers. The fountain was erected in Hill Park in the city of Helena, Montana,…

The memorial to Private David Lewis Gifford is a life-size statue of a local war hero and medal of honor recipient, best known for his daring rescue expedition to save troops on the stranded union steamer ship, USS Boston. The statue depicts Gifford…

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…

A granite obelisk some twenty seven and a half feet in height with a cruciform base, the Ladd and Whitney Monument was erected in memory of Luther Crawford Ladd and Addison Ottis Whitney, residents of Lowell. Ladd and Whitney, who are widely reported…