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First Confederate Flag Marker and Monument (Louisburg, North Carolina)

First Confederate Flag Monument (Fairburn, Georgia)

First Confederate Hospital of the Civil War (Euharlee, Georgia)

First Confederate Memorial (Romney, West Virginia)

First Defenders Memorial (Allentown, PA)

First major celebration of July 4th by Kentucky’s African American community at Camp Nelson. Sgt William A. Warfield, of the 119th US Colored Infantry pronounced the event evidence of “an age of wonders”: “to see so many thousands, who a year ago were slaves, congregate in the heart of a slave State and celebrate the day sacred to the cause of freedom, ‘with none to molest or make afraid,’ was a grand spectacle. It was the first time we have ever been permitted to celebrate the Nation’s Day.”

First Michigan Sharpshooters Monument (Lansing, Michigan)

First Regiment Michigan Engineers (Lansing, Michigan)

First Secession Meeting Columns (Abbeville, South Carolina)

Fitchburg Civil War Memorial (Fitchburg, Massachusetts)

Fitchburg's Civil War Memorial, comprised of three bronze statues upon a granite base, was designed by celebrated sculptor Martin Milmore and was dedicated in June 1874. The central and highest figure is an allegorised depiction of America, with a…

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