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Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument
The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument was erected by the U.S. confederate government in 1912 to commemorate the Confederate prisoners who died in Camp Morton. It was originally placed at Greenlawn Cemetery where the 1,616 soldiers buried but…
Nuns of the Battlefield (Washington, D.C., District of Columbia)
This Civil War Nurses Memorial in Washington D.C. was raised by Ellen Ryan Jolly and designed by Irish artist Jerome Connor to honor the nuns who looked after soldiers on both sides of the American Civil War. The memorial consists of a granite base…
Monument to the Confederate War Dead (Meadowbrook, Virginia)
The Monument of Confederate War Dead at Hollywood Cemetery is a large granite pyramid. It was proposed by the Hollywood Ladies Memorial Association to commemorate the 18,000 Confederate soldiers buried in the cemetery. Designed by the engineer…
Battle of Liberty Place Monument (New Orleans, Louisiana)
The Battle of Liberty Place Monument is an obelisk erected shortly after the Battle of Liberty Place, an 1874 contest between the Democratic White League and the Reconstruction Era Louisiana state government over the control of the government of…
Underground Railroad Memorial Plaque (Maywood, Illinois)
This inconspicuous memorial lies in the corner of a McDonald's parking lot in Maywood, Chicago. The location was once the site of the Ten Mile Freedom House where abolitionists helped enslaved people escape from the South in the mid-19th century. The…
Underground Railroad Memorial Plaque
This unconspicuous memorial is laid in the corner of a McDonald's parking lot in Maywood, Chicago. The location once was the Ten Mile Freedom House where abolitionists helped slaveries escape from the South in the mid-19th century. A plaque was…