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Erected in 1899, this monument to Colonel Thomas Cass of the Ninth Massachusetts Infantry stands on the same spot in the Boston Public Gardens where a previous statue of Cass was placed ten years before. Following a series of complaints about the…

Oak Bluffs' Soldiers' Memorial Fountain, though erected by Confederate veteran Charles Strahan, depicts a Union soldier and was dedicated to the Henry Clay Wade Post of the GAR in 1891. Strahan's hope that he might receive some similar dedication was…

Located in Salem's Greenlawn Cemetery, the Henry Merritt Camp Memorial was dedicated in 1886 in honour of town native Lieutenant Colonel Henry Merritt, who was killed during the Battle of New Bern in April 1862. The Memorial is made from the zinc, or…

Dedicated in July of 1866, the Barnstable's Soldiers' Monument was among the first Civil War memorials to be erected in the state of Massachusetts. A granite obelisk standing at 15ft, the monument features the names of many local war heroes alongside…

Located in the town common, the Soldiers' Monument honours the 50 Greenfield men who were killed in action during the Civil War. Artist James G. Batterson's study of Egyptology is noticeable in the design of the granite column, which is topped by a…

Also known as "The Color Bearer', this monument features a statue of an idealised Union Color Sergeant, cast from condemned cannon, atop a granite column. On the east and west faces are presented the State of Massachusetts and United States seals,…

The Rockery is a memorial cairn created by "The Father of American Landscape Architecture', Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted preferred the cairn to masonry or sculpture as he envisaged the symbolic growth of plants over the rockery of battle; its crest…

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…

The Andersonville Trial is a Broadway play written by Saul Levitt and was presented in 1959 which focuses on the actual trial of Henry Wirz happened in 1865. The play was adapted to television drama in 1970 and won the 1971 Emmy Awards and a Peabody…