Townsend Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Townsend, Massachusetts)
description: 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 1902 for Newburyport. The Townsend Volunteer was gifted through a bequest of $10,000 from John Birney Blood, who had served in the 53rd Massachusetts Infantry. Blood enlisted when he was 22 years old, and his unit served in the Port Hudson Campaign, LA in 1863. While he returned home, his brother, Abijah Blood, did not. He died at age 91 in 1931, and the statue was dedicated the following year. By this late date, the construction of Civil War monuments in Massachusetts had largely ceased, due in part to the Depression.
creator: Gorham Manufacturing Company
source: american,peoplesculptures,unionmonument
contributor: Chelsea Reutcke
language: English
type: Site

Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy Monument (Philadelphia, PA)
creator: Gregory Pototsky
contributor: Caroline Scott
type: Site

Oak Grove Civil War Memorial (Dayton, Maine)
description: 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 served during the American Civil War 1861 - 1865. It was created by the Hallowell Granite Company. The memorial depicts a Union Soldier at parade rest. Located next to the memorial is one of two cannons from Fort Popham, Phippsburg (Maine) and was donated by the War Department to the city in 1902.
creator: Hallowell Granite Company
source: american
date: 1986-01-01
contributor: Conall Treen
language: English
type: Site

Marblehead Soldiers' Monument (Marblehead, Massachusetts)
description: 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 Country's Defenders' throughout three wars - the Revolution of 1776, the War of 1812, and the Civil War - the Monument's east, west, and south sides are reserved for the names of the 138 soldiers who died in the latter conflict. In May 1913, the Soldiers' Monument was removed from its original location at Green, Mugford and Elm streets, and relocated to what is now known as Memorial Park.
creator: Hallowell Granite Company
source: american
language: English
type: Site

Auburn Civil War Monument (Woodstock, Maine)
creator: Hallowell Granite Company,
source: american
language: English
type: Site

John C. Breckinridge Memorial (Mount Vernon, Kentucky)
description: In 2018, the statue was moved to Lexington Cemetery
creator: Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company
source: american,confederatemonument,peoplesculptures
language: English
type: Site

John Alexander Logan Monument (Near South Side, Illinois)
description: Placed atop a grassy mound in Chicago's Grant Park, the John A. Logan Monument honors the life and service of Civil War Union general and Illinois politician John Alexander Logan. In his lifetime, John A. Logan served as a commander and general in the Union Army, headed the veteran organization the Grand Army of the Republic. He also led the movement for establishing a national Memorial Day. Prompted by Logan's death in 1886, this bronze equestrian statue was conceptualized by Chicago's South Park Commissioners, funded by the Illinois legislature, and created by famed sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Alexander Phimister Proctor. While he is honoured in this monument for his respected political and Civil War Union service, Logan was openly racist and advocated for legislation directed towards halting black migration and settlement in Illinois.
creator: Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, assistance was provided by Daniel H. Burnham, Annette Johnson, and Mary Lawrence Tonetti.
source: american
date: 1897-07-22
type: Site

Houlton Civil War Monument (Florenceville-Bristol, Maine)
description: Located at Monument Park in the Town of Houlton, this Union Soldiers' monument is dedicated to the soldiers and sailors of Houlton who lost their lives during the American Civil War. In 1902 the Great Fire of Houlton destroyed a large portion of the town centre, a section of the burned area was later used for the construction of a park, the monument, and the Cary Library. The monument, constructed by the Houlton Granite and Marble Works, is made of granite and consists of a multitiered base surmounted by a Union soldier depicted at parade rest. The Lower section has a mounted bronze plaque, this plaque honours a native of Houlton: Major General Henry C. Merriam. Merriam served as a Lieutenant Colonel and commanded the 73rd United States Colored Troops Infantry Regiment. The platform of the monument is decorated with eight evenly-spaced cannonballs. The monument was funded by the Town of Houlton and private subscription, and it was dedicated on May 31, 1909.
creator: Houlton Granite and Marble Works
source: american,peoplesculptures,unionmonument
date: 1909-01-01
contributor: Conall Treen
language: English
type: Site

Memorial Hall Library
description: Funded by the local, the Memorial Hall Library was constructed in 1873 as town libray as well as the monument of the soldiers who made contribution to the Civil War. The architectural style combines the original Italianate and the Colonial Revival during later renovation. In 1982, it was added into the list of Register of Historic Places.
creator: J. F. Eaton
source: american
language: English
type: Physical Object

Colonel Thomas Cass (Boston, Massachusetts)
description: 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 original granite sculpture's likeness of the Colonel, artist Richard E. Brooks was hired to design the current bronze statue, for which he was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1900.
creator: J. J. Horgan (fabricator)
source: american
contributor: Josh Haslett
language: English
type: Site