Located in Chicago's Oak Woods Cemetery, the Confederate Mound is situated on a former mass grave for Confederate prisoners of war, who died at Camp Douglas (1862-65). In 1887, the Ex-Confederate Association of Chicago received permission by the…
The Soldier's Monument at Danville National cemetery is located on a cemetery that was designated a national cemetery in 1898 and was a dedicated burial site for veterans of the civil war who had died at the National Home for Disabled Volunteers…
This monument, located in Spring Hill Cemetery (also known as Spring Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum), depicts a Union soldier at "Parade Rest" and is dedicated to the men from Vermillion County who fought for the Union during the war. Strikingly, the…
Orion Perseus Howe was a Union drummer boy in Company C, of the 55th Illinois Infantry. On 19th May 1863 at the battle of Vicksburg he was present on the field and was ordered by Colonel Malmborg to go to General Sherman and request the supply of…
This tall, stone monument located near the historic Salem Church is dedicated to the 15th New Jersey Infantry regiment. It marks the site of a bloody battle between them and the Confederate 14th Georgia regiment in which around 116 men were killed…
This unusual memorial is dedicated to estimated 4,000 enslaved people who worked the grounds of the University of Virginia. Constructed from local granite, the memorial takes the form of a broken ring which measures about 80 feet in diameter and…