The marker's date of 1865 is suspected to be the year the memorial was placed on display. It includes the township's dead from throughout the war, not just 1865: for example, Private Daniel Shank, Company I 44th Ohio Infantry, died of wounds at…
The City of Lynn's Soldiers' Monument is notable for the allegorical classicism of its figures, with a Grecian style preferred over the conventional standing soldier of many contemporaneous memorials. Comprised of a trio of bronze figures atop an…
One of the first Confederate monuments to even mention slavery and the only one to focus on it specifically, the memorial was dedicated in 1896 to the myth that the enslaved population was content with the institution of slavery. Its carved marble…