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Atop a pile of rocks about a half mile north of the town of New Market Virginia sits a stone tablet on which a poem is inscribed. It reads: "This rustic pile, the simple tale will tell: It marks the spot, where Woodson's Heroes Fell'. This simple…

Photograph of Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson from the Henry Hudson and Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson Papers: Biographical material, correspondence, writings, art works, legal and financial records, scrapbook, photographic and printing material, and printed…

Portrait of Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson published in New-York Tribune, New York, N.Y., 20 Dec. 1903.

Prominently located on Veteran Memorial Green, near an elementary school, library and town common, this monument was designed by the well-known female sculptor Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, who created a number of monuments to Union and Confederate…

Taken on February 22, 2015

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…