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A major Union supply depot and recruitment centre for United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War, Camp Nelson was designated a National Monument under the Antiquities Act in 2018 -- 155 years after it was initially established. The site…

Funded by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and erected In 1909, the North Alton Confederate Cemetery Monument Is a 58 foot tall granite obelisk inscribed with the names of the 1,534 confederate soldiers at the concrete base. These soldiers…

Stained glass windows representing episodes in the life of General Robert E. Lee and General Stonewall Jackson, created in their memory.

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…

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…

The Bath Civil War Soldiers' Monument is located opposite the Sagadahoc County Court House, and at the intersection of Centre Street and High Street. It is dedicated to the men of Bath who died during the American Civil War 1861 - 1865. $4975 was…

An Ode in Time of Hesitation is a poem by William Vaughn Moody after seeing the Shaw monument at Boston. It is considered to give expressions on the problem “how to reconcile our imperialistic aims in the Philippines with ideal for which this country…