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The John W. Jones’ house museum in Elmira, New York is an interactive museum to record and honour the contribution of the former slave, John W. Jones who is an activist int the Underground Railroad during 1850s and became the sexton of Woodlawn…

The cannon stored in Amherst College is a movable memorial to one of its students Frazar Stearns. During the war, Frazar followed his chemistry professor to attend the Battle of New Bern and was killed there. The cannon was brought back along with…

In 1863, a historic Civil War battle was fought near Chancellorsville. In this battle, Stonewall Jackson was accidentally shot by his troops and lost one of his arms. The arm was originally buried in Ellwood Manor nearby and was given a Christian…

The Memorial Hall was proposed to commemorate the Harvard graduates who fought for the Union cause in the Civil War as well as to meet the demand of a theatre and a gathering space for alumni. Currently, it houses Sanders Theatre, Annenberg Hall, the…

Jefferson Davis Highway was a project sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the early of 1910s to commemorate the President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis. The planned route ranges from Arlington, Virginia to San Diego,…

The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument was erected by the U.S. Government in 1912 to commemorate the Confederate prisoners who died in Camp Morton. It was originally placed at Greenlawn Cemetery, where 1,616 soldiers were buried, but was later…

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…

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…

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…

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…