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In 2018, the statue was moved to Lexington Cemetery

A granite obelisk standing at 34 feet high, Marblehead's Soldiers' Monument was erected in 1876, the same year as the town's Mugford Monument, and dedicated on the centennial July 4. Although its north-side inscription honours the memory of "Our…

This Soldiers' Civil War Memorial is situated in the Grand Army Lot, Oak Grove Cemetery. It was funded and erected by the Sedgwick Post No. 4, G.A.R. It was dedicated on May 30, 1896 and is to the Veterans of the United States Army and Navy who…

Located in the Townsend Town Common at Main and School Streets in Townsend, Massachusetts, this standing soldier statue is one of several done in this style ("The Volunteer") by artist Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson. The first "Volunteer" was sculpted in…

Locally referred to as the "Minuteman' this monument is based on Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson's Newburyport statue of "The Volunteer'. The North Andover figure however maintains a different pose to its predecessor, as he appears to be stepping forward…

Veterans of several Connecticut regiments erected this monument in 1900 on the site in Hartford, the state capital, where they had been mustered into service and encamped prior to their departure for the theater of war. Unlike many northern monuments…

North to Freedom is a bronze statue depicting a self-emancipated man, sculpted by Glenn and Dianne Hines. The statue was added in 2002 in Chamberlain Freedom Park, five years after the park was built, and it is Maine's only official monument…

The 20th Maine Monument which sits in Chamberlain Freedom Park, Brewer is a replica of the eponymous monument situated in Little Round Top, Gettysburg. The monument, like the one in Gettysburg, commemorates the 386 men of the 20th Maine Volunteers…