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The Victorious Charge Memorial (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

The US Army, by order of Brig. Gen. Speed S. Fry, expels over 400 Black refugees, mostly women and children, from Camp Nelson. 102 people died of exposure and illness in the immediate aftermath.

The US Army reverses its policy and allows African American refugees into Camp Nelson. Capt. Theron Hall and Rev. John G. Fee open the “Home for Colored Refugees,” which included wooden cottages, education and religious services, and a hospital.

The US Army officially closes Camp Nelson. Only about 250 refugees remain at the Home for Colored Refugees. Former refugees and USCT veterans establish the community of Ariel (today known as Hall). Many residents worked in agriculture and the distillery industry, and supported the Ariel Academy for over fifty years.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy

The United Daughters of the Confederacy was an organization established by female descendant of the Confederate soldiers since1894 in Nashville, Tennessee. The main goals of the organization include to honour the Confederated soldiers served in the…

The Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association is formed in Louisville, KY with the aim of establishing the first monument to the Union men of Kentucky. Aside from a marker dedicated in Cave Hill Cemetery in 1914, no such public monument was ever realized. In 1897, the Association publishes The Union Regiments of Kentucky as “a monument to the soldiers” that may help to progress “a stately shaft of granite as a further memorial.” The account omits detailed mention of any USCT regiments, arguing that, since such regiments “belonged directly to the United States government” and “were never in or connected with the Kentucky regiments, an account of them in no way belongs to this work.”

The Town of Rhine Civil War Monument (Rhine, Wisconsin)

The Soldier's Monument in Danville National Cemetery (Danville, Illinois)

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…

The Soldier Dead of Lowndes Monument (Hayneville, Alabama)

The Sheridan Monument (Somerset, Ohio)

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