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This Confederate monument was created in 1891 to honor the Confederate dead of Greenville County. James Blackman Ligon, who was the chief of police in Greenville, served as the model for the sculpture. The monument was originally erected in the…

The Wirz Monument was dedicated in 1909 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to commemorate, and exonerate, Captain Heinrich Hartmann Wirz who served as the commander of the Andersonville Civil War Prison between 1864-65. Wirz was hanged in…

The Volunteer is a copy of Kitson's sculpture in Newport, but unlike the original, this figure has a mustache and looks slightly older. It is possible that the committee wanted their statue to be unique, whilst basing a design on an existing monument…

The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument was erected in the downtown of Indianapolis in 1902. It was originally designed to commemorate the Hoosiers in the Civil War and the range expanded into the soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War, the War of…

This fifteen-foot high marble obelisk with a four-foot square granite base, surmounted with a sculpture of an eagle, is Presque Isle's Civil War Monument and was formerly known as the "Soldier's Monument". It is located in Fairmount Cemetery and it…

Built on a rubble foundation with wooden walls, the Mansfield Memorial Library is a Victorian Gothic style building in Bristol County, MA. The land for the building was donated by Elizabeth F. Noble in 1898 and construction began in 1899. The…

This monument is located in front of the West Virginia State Capitol, and consists of a 5.75-foot granite pedestal upon which stands an 8-foot tall bronze statue of President Abraham Lincoln. The statue was originally designed by artist Fred M.…

The Shaw Memorial is a bronze relief sculpture unveiled in Boston in 1897 to commemorate the fallen of 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and their contribution. It depicts Robert Gould Shaw leading his infantry which consists of black…

The Standing Lincoln Statue in Chicago made by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 1887 is considered to be one of the most outstanding and typical portrayal of President Lincoln. The design with a chair behind the president is an innovative expression which…

Overlooking the Machias River in Washington, Maine, the Fort O'Brien cannon, also known as "Napoleon', was created by the Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts in 1862 and was placed in Fort O'Brien in 1863. During the Civil War, a…